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> From: jrclark <[log in to unmask]>
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Cc: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Nongame Funding
> Date: April 11, 2000 3:34 PM
>
> Forwarded by Jane Clark at [log in to unmask]
>
> Representative Latham is on the House Appropriations Committee and
Senator
> Harkin is on the Senate Appropriations Committee. Please contact them and
> the rest of the Iowa delegation to request support for the $100 million
> state fish and wildlife agency nongame grants in the FY2001 budget.
>
> You should have all the legislators contact information, but let me know
if
> you need them. Because they are so important in this case, I will give
you
> Latham's and Harkin's email addresses again:  [log in to unmask]
> and [log in to unmask]
> Thanks!
>
> MEMORANDUM
>
> TO:          State Fish and Wildlife Agency Directors
>                 State Teaming with Wildlife Contacts
>                 State Wildlife Diversity Program Managers
>
> FROM:   Naomi Edelson, TWW Director, IAFWA
>
> DATE:    11 April 2000   SUBJECT:        Appropriations in President's
> Budget: URGENT ACTION REQUESTED
>
> President Clinton in his budget for this year (FY2001) included $100
> million for state fish and wildlife agency nongame grants.  We encourage
> you to contact your Congressional delegation to request their support of
> this funding.  The IAFWA's Legislative and Federal Budget Committee made
> such a recommendation in their overall FY 2001 federal budget
> recommendations (see March 16th letter sent to state directors). For
those
> of you with Congressional members on the appropriations committee, you
can
> be particularly effective in making this request.  Members of the
> Appropriations' Interior Subcommittee (the subcommittee that deals with
> funding that goes through the Dept of Interior) are taking requests from
> other Members of Congress right now.
>
> When the President included these state nongame grants in his budget and
> mentioned it in the State of the Union speech, we saw this as a very
clear
> sign of his support for using OCS funds for state wildlife conservation
and
> thus a significant victory for all of our recent efforts related to CARA.

> BUT it also provides a very, very real opportunity to get money into
state
> programs this coming October.  As you know CARA does not take affect
until
> October 2001, and of course it has to actually pass for this to even
> happen. In either scenario, this $100 million will provide states funding
> for the year before CARA goes into effect and/or help build a case for
the
> need for greater funding through CARA.
>
>
> Thank you in advance for you efforts!
>
>
>

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