-Com Talk, Lancaster Farming, Saturday, March 3.2001
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House, Senate Action On River Legislation
Is Win For National Corn Growers
ST. LOUIS, Mo. The
National Corn Growers As
sociation (NCGA) applauded
passage by the U.S. House
and Senate of the 2001
Energy and Water Develop
ment Appropriations Bill
that includes important
river-related provisions
championed by the NCGA.
The House passed the bill
301-118, and the Senate
passed the bill 57-37.
“The NCGA has worked
hard for the river-related pro
visions in the bill,” said
NCGA President Lee Klein
of Battle Creek, Neb. “Con
gress obviously understands
the needs of America’s farm
ers when it comes to our
country’s rivers and the im
portant role river navigation
Ag Industry Seeks
Higher Funding In
FY-2002
NCGA joined a
coalition of ag in
dustry groups as a
signatory to a letter
urging higher levels
of funding for ag
programs during
FY-2002 and
beyond. The letter,
addressed to Sen.
Lugar and Rep.
Combest, requesting
their help in the FY
-2002 Budget Resolu
tion.
“Specifically, we
respectfully request
you to urge the
Budget Committee
to provide addi
tional funding in
FY-2002 and
beyond equal to at
least the same level
of emergency eco
nomic assistance
which applied to the
2000 crop,” the
letter stated. “To fa
cilitate the develop
ment of new
legislation, it is im
portant for the
budget resolution to
provide sufficient
funding to enable
the authorizing
committees to de
velop effective agri
cultural policies.”
Funding of the
farm bill will be one
of the key issues
facing the budget
committees this
year.
plays in the movement of
grain and other agricultnrlal
commodities.”
Among the provisions' of
the bill, NCGA supports are
$2.1 million for the Upper
Mississippi River Navigation
Study, and $4.7 million for
preconstruction design and
engineering on five locks on
the Upper Mississippi River
and two on the Illinois River.
This bill also includes an im
portant provision regarding
the management of the Miss
ouri River.
Congressional passage of
the Missouri River manage
ment provision (Section 103)
put to rest, for now, a battle
between Sen. Kit Bond (R
-MO) and Sen. Tom Daschle
(D-SD). An amendment
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sponsored by Daschle would
have given the U.S. Fish and
Wildlife Service authority to
proceed with implementing a
“spring rise” on the Missouri
River next year. But Sen.
Bond, primary sponsor of the
Section 103 language, argued
that a spring surge or “con
trolled flood” could bring dis
astrous floods on the
Missouri River and disrupt
navigation on both the Miss
ouri and Mississippi rivers.
“Again, Congress recog
nized and validated Sen.
Bond’s concerns,” Klein said.
“However, there is a good
possibility that President
Clinton will veto the bill
simply because of election
year politics regarding the
Section 103 provision. NCGA
will push to see that the presi-
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sought-after funding targeted
for the Upper Mississippi
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