The Record (Bergen County, NJ), September 5th, 1999
The Record (Bergen County, NJ) 09-05-1999 THE SPACE RACE -- IT'S TIME FOR CONGRESS TO PONY UP Date: 09-05-1999, Sunday Section: REVIEW & OUTLOOK Edition: All Editions -- Sunday
IN 1965, in order to save precious open space, Congress created the Land and Water Conservation Fund and earmarked it to receive $900 million out of the $3.4 billion a year the federal government gets from offshore-drilling royalties. But almost from the start, lawmakers viewed the fund as a wonderful cookie jar to raid, and they have been giving the crumbs to open space ever since.
That was supposed to change t...
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