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Ms. Harris. I don't know what that sound is. 



Senator Hecht. That's one of those things that's calKng us to a 

 vote. I can give you about five minutes and then will have to run 

 for that vote. Then we will adjourn for about ten minutes and we'll 

 come right back. 



Ms. Harris. This is a document by the Forest Service which doc- 

 uments the groundwater resources and the springs of the Spring 

 Mountain Range in their particular area. It is a very fragile area, 

 and we suggest that that, along with the Hot Creek area, which is 

 an antelope habitat — no, it is on the Antelope Range, it is an elk 

 habitat — be added to the Forest Service and that is along the Moni- 

 tor Range. A map was also included with that. 



May I then progress rapidly to 



Senator Hecht. I'll tell you, if you don't mind, I don't want to 

 push you since you have come a long way. Why don't you let me 

 vote and we'll take a ten minute break. I won't have to rush you, 

 then. But I do have to vote. That is my job. 



Ms. Harris. Oh, please vote. We appreciate your doing your job. 



Senator Hecht. We will have a ten minute recess. 



[A brief recess was taken.] 



Senator Hecht. The committee will come to order. Please pro- 

 ceed. 



Ms. Harris. Basically, that I pretty well concluded my comments 

 on the Forest Enhancement Act, except to state our concern that 

 the wilderness study areas would be treated as national forest 

 study areas for the wilderness, and that the water necessary to 

 maintain and preserve the forested lands and to keep the flow of 

 the streams would be taken care of. 



And whatever water language is necessary for the western states 

 and the national issue not be addressed in this particular issue, but 

 that the Forest Service be given the rights and the necessary guide- 

 lines that they have always had. 



The next issue of concern, of course, is the Florida-Nevada land 

 exchange, based on an appraisal report that I find as a real estate 

 broker to be seriously flawed. I would state that we all want to sell 

 our land for the most possible price and buy land for the least pos- 

 sible price. 



But Aerojet General is talking about an industrial site, every 

 time they speak about the land in Coyote Springs. However, the ap- 

 praisal carefully discussed this land as if it were nothing but mar- 

 ginal range land, that its highest and best use is only for range 

 land, bad range land at that. 



Now I do not see Ralph Clark in a stetson hat riding the range. I 

 do believe he wants an industrial site. And he stated at the land 

 hearing in Las Vegas less than two weeks ago that they had chosen 

 the site for power, water, and access to a population center but 

 remote enough for security. 



They do have power with the power corridor. They do have 

 access. They have two paved roads going from south to north on 

 the east and the west boundaries. They have roads going across, at 

 the southern end and at the northern end. 



And they have water. They have the MX well, which the apprais- 

 al carefully values as if it were merely a cattle watering well, as 



