SO MUCH FOR THE RULE OF LAW
To the delight of the timber, energy, and mining industries, the Bush
administration has delayed for at least two months former President
Clinton's plan to ban road-building and logging on 58.5 million acres
of national forest land.  However, because the plan was published in
the Federal Register before President Bush took office, enviros are
saying Bush can't alter or block the rule much longer without going
through an exhaustive new rule-making process.  Western Republicans
in Congress could try to block the ban under a 1996 law giving them
the right to pull back rules within 60 days of publication in the
register.  But the law has never before been invoked, and proponents
of the rollback might find it hard to muster enough support in a
Congress so evenly divided.

straight to the source:  Seattle Times, Hal Bernton and Craig Welch,
06 Feb 2001
<http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/SeattleTimes.woa/
wa/gotoArticle?zsection_id=268448406&text_only=0&slug=roadless06m&docu
ment_id=134265486>

straight to the source:  Sacramento Bee, Associated Press, 05 Feb 2001
<http://www.sacbee.com/news/beelive/show_story.cgi?bush>

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