KMMS: EPA Adds Montana For Targeted Superfund Sites
Senator Steve Daines just made the statement that the Environmental Protection Agency include both Montana’s Silver Bow Creek/Butte Area and Anaconda Co. Smelter Superfund sites that need immediate and intense attention. The administrator Scott Pruitt is targeting places in the United States for his list of places that should be represented. This comes in response to a letter Senator Daines sent to Pruitt urging the agency to not forget Montana “By including the Silver Bow Creek/Butte Area and Anaconda Co. Smelter sites among the EPA’s targeted Superfund sites, these sites will now receive the attention, focus and prioritization that these
Great Falls Tribune: Protecting public use of public lands
In 1977, President Carter signed a law that required the Forest Service to study 973,000 acres in Montana to determine if they were suitable for wilderness. The findings were to be reported in five years and Congress was to take action afterward. The Forest Service completed the study and determined that several of the study areas in Montana were not suitable for wilderness in its final plan. Thirty-five years later – we’re still waiting for D.C. to get its job done and release the study areas. I’ve introduced the Protect Public Use of Public Lands Act, which will take action
EPA Meets Daines’ Request, Includes Montana Among Targeted Superfund Sites
U.S. SENATE — U.S. Senator Steve Daines today made the following statement after the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) included both Montana’s Silver Bow Creek/Butte Area and Anaconda Co. Smelter Superfund sites in its list of sites that Administrator Scott Pruitt has targeted for immediate and intense attention. This comes in response to a letter Senator Daines sent to Pruitt urging the agency to do so. “By including the Silver Bow Creek/Butte Area and Anaconda Co. Smelter sites among the EPA’s targeted Superfund sites, these sites will now receive the attention, focus and prioritization that these communities deserve,” said Daines. “With an additional sixteen National Priority List sites still in Montana, I will continue to work with the EPA to clean up
Daines Announces 2017 Montana Student U.S. Military Academy Nominations
U.S. SENATE — U.S. Senator Steve Daines today announced his nominations of 22 Montana students who are applying for enrollment into U.S. military academies. A congressional nomination is a critical step in the process for Montanans seeking admission to one of the nation’s four military academies: the U.S. Air Force Academy at Colorado Springs, the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis or the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy at Kings Point. “It is an honor and a privilege to nominate some of Montana’s most capable and brightest young people to attend one of our nation’s military academies,” Daines said. “I
Daines Honors Montanan of the Week: June Rychalski of Lewis and Clark County
U.S. SENATE —U.S. Senator Steve Daines today recognized June Rychalski of Lewis and Clark County for her distinguished 35-year career in the Montana Department of Military Affairs. Daines’ recognition in the Congressional Record is available here. Through his “Montanan of the Week” initiative, Daines each week will highlight a Montanan by submitting a statement of recognition in the official Congressional Record, the document that reflects the official proceedings of Congress. Daines welcomes anyone to nominate fellow Montanans for Daines’ “Montanan of the Week” program by calling Daines’ office at 202-224-2651 or by filling out the contact form on Daines’ website: http://www.daines.senate.gov/connect/email-steve
Missoulian: Daines bill would release wilderness study areas for other uses
Five wilderness study areas left in legislative limbo for 35 years would be released to multiple use planning under a proposed bill by Sen. Steve Daines, R-Montana. The 449,500 acres of wild country include the Blue Joint and Sapphire WSAs south and east of Hamilton, the Big Snowies WSA near Lewistown, the Middle Fork Judith WSA south of Stanford and the West Pioneer WSA east of Wisdom. “These lands were to be studied for five years and the findings reported to the president,” Daines said in a conference call to reporters on Thursday. “We are now 35 years past due
Daines Introduces Legislation to Protect Public Use of Public Lands
U.S. SENATE — U.S. Senator Steve Daines today introduced legislation, the Protect Public Use of Public Lands Act, to protect public access and use of Montana’s public lands by implementing the Forest Service’srecommendation to release 449,500 acres of Wilderness Study Areas (WSA) in Montana. “As a fifth-generation Montanan and an avid outdoorsman, I know how important public use of our public lands is to Montanans,” Daines stated. “Forty years of DC paralysis has frozen our access and use of public lands. It’s time to keep public lands in public hands.” This bill follows bottom-up requests from the state legislature and local communities. Implementing the Forest Service recommendation for these WSAs will increase the
Bozeman Daily Chronicle: Bozeman boy lights U.S. Capitol Christmas tree
As night fell on the nation’s Capitol, a nearly 80-foot-tall Engelmann spruce picked from Montana’s Kootenai National Forest and adorned with 3,500 hand-made ornaments stole the spotlight from the Washington Monument. Ridley Brandmayr, an 11-year-old from Bozeman chosen by Montana’s senior Sen. Jon Tester to light the tree, looked on in anticipation as the state’s delegation and other speakers kicked off the event. Brandmayr, wearing a black suit and white pressed buttoned-down shirt, said he was a little nervous “because I was in front of America.” The sixth grader from Sacajewa Middle School said his social studies instructor told him
Great Falls Tribune: Daines submits legislation to remove 449,500 acres from Montana’s Wilderness Study Areas
Public lands and protections remain a hot topic in Washington D.C. Thursday as Sen. Steve Daines, R-Mont., introduced legislation to remove 449,500 acres in Montana’s Wilderness Study Areas. Daines describes the “Protect Public Use of Public Lands Act” as an effort to follow bottom-up requests from the state legislature and local communities. “As a fifth-generation Montanan and an avid outdoorsman, I know how important public use of our public lands is to Montanans,” Daines said in a statement. “Forty years of D.C. paralysis has frozen our access and use of public lands. It’s time to keep public lands in public hands.” The WSAs included