76th OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2012 Regular Session
 
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                    Senate Joint Memorial 201
 
Sponsored by Senators GIROD, ATKINSON; Senators BATES, FERRIOLI,
  JOHNSON, KRUSE, VERGER, Representatives MCLANE, ROBLAN
  (Presession filed.)
 
 
                             SUMMARY
 
The following summary is not prepared by the sponsors of the
measure and is not a part of the body thereof subject to
consideration by the Legislative Assembly. It is an editor's
brief statement of the essential features of the measure as
introduced.
 
  Urges President and Congress of United States of America to
allow Oregon counties to manage revested Oregon and California
Railroad grant lands located in counties.
 
                         JOINT MEMORIAL
To the President of the United States and the Senate and the
  House of Representatives of the United States of America, in
  Congress assembled:
  We, your memorialists, the Seventy-sixth Legislative Assembly
of the State of Oregon, in legislative session assembled,
respectfully represent as follows:
  Whereas revenues from revested Oregon and California Railroad
grant lands, commonly known as O&C lands, distributed under the
O&C Lands Act of 1937 are vital to the economic survival of many
county governments in Oregon; and
  Whereas federal management of the revested O&C lands has
resulted in a serious decline in revenue from those lands; and
  Whereas federal management of the O&C lands has caused
significant increases in the production of greenhouse gases due
to forest fires; and
  Whereas public and private resources within Oregon counties in
which O&C lands are located are capable of managing those lands
in a responsible and balanced manner for the greatest public
benefit; and
  Whereas the management of O&C lands by public and private
resources within Oregon counties would produce greater benefit to
the counties and to the long-term health of O&C lands than is
realized under current federal management; now, therefore,
Be It Resolved by the Legislative Assembly of the State of
  Oregon:
  That we, the members of the Seventy-Sixth Legislative Assembly,
urge the President and the Congress of the United States of
America to allow Oregon counties in which revested Oregon and
California Railroad grant lands are located to exercise full
management authority over those lands, either by transferring
title to the lands to the counties without cost or by long-term
lease of the lands to the counties for a token amount; and be it
further
 
  Resolved, That a copy of this memorial be sent to the President
of the United States and to each member of the Oregon
Congressional Delegation.
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