Fee Demo Limited to National Parks only

[Rodchester]

Ted:

 

as I said:

 

"A last minute extension is unlikely. It would have to come out of committee as a whole new bill. This year they are too busy to screw around with it. Many have elections to worry about."

 

Yes it is possible. But if it is not adopted by the House then new language must be agreed too. Sure there is caution, but odds are pretty good that this will either pass and lapse or not pass and lapse.

 

As I said above it could go the other way, but odds are on our side this time.

[blue_morph]

So is this thing really history? I would have thought there would be a little more dancing in the streets!

[Rodchester]

Well, I guess its kind of like the old Monty Python skit..."Bring out your dead."

 

The clearly dying guy is being put out into the street to be picked up (picture the time of the black plague) by a guy shouting "Bring Out Your Dead!"

 

The clearly dying man protests: "But I'm not dead yet."

 

In theory this thing could be revived. But I seriously think its dead on FS and BLM lands. So guess its not dead yet. . ..but it will be son. In the meantime, keep your fingers crossed.

[E-rock]

"This an interesting read, put it's difficult to make sense of that everyone has said because things are properly PROOFREAD."

 

This is an interesting read, but it's difficult to make sense of what everyone has said because things are not properly PROOFREAD.

 

See the difference?

[graupel]

Shamelessly cut-and-pasted from another site

 

Even as you read this, the house resources committee is preparing a permanent fee bill for committee vote. Fortunately, for the last two months fee demo activists, encouraged by increasing opposition to the fee program, have been negotiating with the House Resource Committee to try to limit the scope of Regula's permanent Fee Demo bill HR 3283. Although those talks are ongoing it is becoming clear that congressional fee proponents are refusing to acknowledge the will of the people. With only 72 hours until the Committee votes on the amendment, wording will still include Basic or Standard Recreation Fees for use of our public land, an "America The Beautiful" (an $85 lack of value) National Pass for all agencies, agency appointed Advisory Committees to rubber stamp fee areas, and all the incentives for the land management agencies to treat you as nothing more than a customer.

 

 

The 42-page revised version (by way of an amendment) of Rep. Regula's HR 3283, the permanent recreation fee bill, is headed for markup on Wednesday September 22nd. Markup is where the full House Resources Committee votes on sending it on to the House floor for a vote. They may send it on as it is written, they may amend it, or they (hopefully) may reject it altogether. This is where you come in.

 

Indications are that the 24 minority Democrat Committee members may oppose the HR 3283 amendment- but there are 28 majority Republican Committee members, of whom many might support the new version of HR 3283. (The amendment language is still not available on the internet.)

 

Our job is to encourage the majority Republican Committee members to vote against this fee bill.

 

Below are phone and fax numbers for the 28 Republican Committee members, followed by the contact info for 4 key Committee Democrats.

 

Please, do all you can to call and/or fax these legislators between now and Wednesday morning. This action alert, which will go far and wide, will be the ONLY opportunity to register your disapproval of this permanent recreation fee legislation for America's public lands. We don't have an army of lobbyists, but we do have you and thousands like you. You've made a difference before and you can do it again. After seven years of fighting Fee Demo, this is THE decisive week.

 

If the HR 3283 amendment passes as written, fees will be levied on most of America's public lands for the indefinite future; there'll be multiple layers of fees for everything from rustic campsites to site specific areas, and expanded fees for additional "services."

 

WHAT TO SAY AND FAX:

Please ask, briefly, each legislator to oppose any amendment to HR 3283 that still has Basic or Standard fees, a National Pass for public lands and a Fee Advisory Committee at markup, and to support S.1107 (the Senate bill which passed this year, making ONLY Park Service fees permanent and allowing the others to lapse).

 

It's a pretty simple message and, believe it or not, 32 phone calls to the list below can take as little as 20 minutes of your time Monday or Tuesday.

 

WHO TO CONTACT:

Please call/fax ALL the 28 Republican House Resources Committee members below. If your time is limited, make sure to contact Committee chair Pombo and legislators from your home state, at least. (If you can only call a few, please pick them at random so those at the top of the list don't get more calls than those lower down.) Below that, are listed 4 key Democrat Committee members, including minority chair Rahall (who strongly opposes fees); please contact all of these if you can.

 

Remember that faxes will go through more easily AFTER office hours in DC!

 

If all of us manage to make calls and send faxes, it WILL be possible to stop HR 3283! Thank you for your continuing efforts to help stop Fee Demo.

 

 

 

YOU CAN NOW FAX YOUR LETTER ONLINE! If you have no easy access to a fax machine, please prepare your letter, addressed to "Dear Representative," and go to www.aznofee.org . Starting Sunday afternoon, you will be able to go their website and send a FAX directly to all the legislators below. (Our thanks to the Arizona No Fee Coalition.)

 

 

ALL NUMBERS BELOW, AREA CODE (202)

House Resources Committee - Republican Members

 

CHAIR Pombo, Richard - CA Ph: 225-2761 or 225-1947

 

Fax: 225-5929

 

 

Bishop, Rob - UT Ph: 225-0453

Fax: 225-5857

 

Calvert, Ken - CA Ph: 225-1986

Fax: 225-2004

 

Cannon, Chris - UT Ph: 225- 7751

Fax: 225-5629

 

Cole, Tom - OK Ph: 225-6165

Fax: 225-3512

 

Cubin, Barbara - WY Ph: 225-2311

Fax: 225-3057

 

Duncan, Jr., John - TN Ph: 225-5435

Fax: 225-6440

 

Flake, Jeff - AZ Ph: 225-2635

Fax: 226-4386

 

 

Gallegly, Elton - CA Ph: 225-5811

Fax: 225-1100

 

Gibbons, Jim - NV Ph: 225-6155

Fax: 225-5679

 

Gilchrest, Wayne - MD Ph: 225-5311

Fax: 225-0254

 

Hayworth, J.D. - AZ Ph: 225-2190

Fax: 225-3263

 

Jones, Walter - NC Ph: 225-3415

Fax: 225-3286

 

McInnis, Scott - CO Ph: 225-4761

Fax: 226-0622

 

Nunes, Devin - CA Ph: 225-2523

Fax: 225-3404

 

Osborne, Tom - NE Ph: 225-6435

Fax: 226-1385

 

Pearce, Stevan - NM Ph: 225-2365

Fax: 225-9599

 

Peterson, John - PA Ph: 225-5121

Fax: 225-5796

 

Putnam, Adam - FL Ph: 225-1252

Fax: 226-0585

 

Radanovich, George - CA Ph: 225-4540

Fax: 225-3402

 

Rehberg, Dennis - MT Ph: 225-3211

Fax: 225-5687

 

Renzi, Rick - AZ Ph: 225-2315

Fax: 226-9739

 

Saxton, Jim - NJ Ph: 225-4765

Fax: 225-0778

 

Souder, Mark - IN Ph: 225-4436

Fax: 225-3479

 

Tancredo, Thomas - CO Ph: 225-7882

Fax: 226-4623

 

Tauzin, W.J. (Billy) - LA Ph: 225-4031

Fax: 225-0563

 

Walden, Greg - OR Ph: 225-6730

Fax: 225-5774

 

Young, Don - AK Ph: 225-5765

Fax: 225-0425

 

 

House Resources Committee - Key Democrat Members

 

CHAIR Rahall, Nick - WV Ph: 225-3452 or 225-6065

Fax: 225-9061 or

 

Baca, Joe - CA Ph: 225-6161

Fax: 225-8671

 

Cardoza, Dennis - CA Ph: 225-6131

Fax: 225-0819

 

Udall, Mark - CO Ph: 225-2161

Fax: 226-7840

 

 

You, and people like you, have made the diference before, getting us as far as we are. Its clear that FEE DEMO CAN BE ENDED. If you value public lands, and public access to public lands, there has never been a better time to raise your voice and be heard.

[Dr_Crash]

I like the "send a fax to all the representatives" at once thing a lot: it's here (http://www.aznofee.org/aznofee/alerts.php) and mine was sent a few minutes ago...

 

drC

[ken4ord]

Does this mean that the remaining months on my annual pass will be money wasted? Ay Caramba!

 

It was money wasted right from the get go.

[Lambone]

kinda sad to read Rodchester's posts here...really sad