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Let me just say that we really appreciate your patience. You 

 have been with us now almost four hours, and coming back here, 

 it has been very kind of you to do that. This is our sixth or seventh 

 hearing on the forest issues, and we hope that we will soon be able 

 to come up with some legislation which will make a lot of pebple 

 mad I am sure on both sides. But we really feel there has to be 

 some relief and some remedy to some of the problems created. 



It always amazes me around here how some people put a bill in 

 10 years ago, and they almost think it came from Mt. Sinai, that 

 the hand of God was on it, and you can't change one comma or one 

 semicolon. And just a little old man writes these things, and the 

 best thing we can do is go back and do them over again. 



I think as a State legislator. Speaker of the House, as a city 

 councilman that I had those experiences. We always were changing 

 laws to fit and make them better — to make them work better. In 

 my opinion, there are many things regarding forest work that have 

 to be changed, and your input has been very valuable. So with 

 that, we will consider this meeting closed and adjourned. Thank 

 you. 



[Whereupon, at 1:40 p.m., the Subcommittee was adjourned; and 

 the following was submitted for the record:] 



