Congressman Patrick Meehan (R/PA-07) today warned that new draft legislation released by the chairman of the Natural Resources Committee to reauthorize the Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF) undercuts conservation efforts.
"The draft is a radical departure for the LWCF, America's most successful conservation program," Meehan said. "It diverts money away from conservation, throws up roadblocks to preservation and sets top-down, arbitrary funding formulas."
"A group of 196 bipartisan House members supports existing legislation to extend this invaluable conservation program, a program that spends not one nickel of taxpayer dollars, yet the bill cannot get a vote in committee. I hope that can change," Meehan said, noting that bipartisan Senate legislation to reauthorize and strengthen the Fund passed the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee this summer by an 18-4 vote.
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"Those who support maintaining the LWCF core conservation mission deserve to have their voices heard on the floor of the people's House," Meehan said.