206 



Mailing Address: 

 I IG 37 DuA Q e O 

 Lead, South Dakota 57754 



AiiUu«^t 27, 1993 



^alb ^oujttjit^ 



ng fflompang 



Office Address: 

 Trojaa South Dakota 



Telephone (605) 584-1420 



Tlir- Honorable Larry Pressler 

 United States Senate 

 Washington, D.C. 20510 



Re: 



U.S. Senate Small Business Committee Hearing on: 

 Public Land Use Impact on Small Business 



l)r>ar Senator Pressler: 



First 1 would like to thank you for your efforts to hear the 

 concerns of small business owners in the Black Hills. 



As you well know, we have escalating welfare costs, a 

 mounting deficit, a declining defense industry and an 

 overwhelming imbalance in world trade. I believe, however, that 

 these, and other national fiscal problems, can be solved over 

 time with small sacrifices and hard work by everyone in this 

 cf)untry . 



It then seems inherently unfair to ask people to make 

 sacrifices t^hen their jobs are being impacted by anti- 

 industrialists who seek to alter reasonable Public Lands 

 policies. Isn't revenue generation part of our Public Lands 

 h^rLtagp and isn't this revenue supposed to offset the costs of 

 government and lighten the tax burden for citizens? 



People in our area with valuable skills will lose high- 

 paying jobs if there is a decrease in the USPS allowable timber 

 sales, a closing off of potentially productive Forest Service 

 lands through additional Wilderness designations or passage of 

 mining reform laws such as those supported by Senator Bumpers and 

 Representative Rahali. 



These same people might find employment in the tourism and 

 recreational industries but at a reduced pay scale. Not only 

 will direct revenue and jobs be lost but ancillary service 

 industries and town businesses will be seriously impacted. And, 

 last but not least, we taxpayers will then have to pay 

 government agencies more money for more people to manage aging 

 forests which have become fire hazards. 



The existing Forest Plan works for the Black Hills Forest 

 ant) allows multiple use options for everyone. In addition, the 

 oxisting Plan has allowed for the development and implementation 

 f'f environmental protection policies. I would suggest if the 



