CLINTON'S FINAL LEGACY.

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CLINTON'S FINAL LEGACY

 

FLURRY OF REGULATIONS SET TO KICK IN AS

CLINTON EXITS NEW RULES AFFECT MANY INDUSTRIES .

 

USA Today; Arlington, Va.;

Nov 27, 2000; Kevin McCoy;

 

 

As President Clinton prepares to leave office, he is poised to leave

behind a legacy of new federal regulations that could dramatically

reshape parts of the business, industry and workplace world for

generations to come .

 

Some abstract of the article relates to animals and environment are:

 

" Road construction would be barred in vast national forest areas. "

 

" All meat and poultry packages would require nutrition labels. "

 

" Foods labeled as organic would be required to meet a first-ever

national certification standard. "

 

" Many widely used pesticides could face restrictions or banning. "

 

" Road construction and reconstruction in nearly 60 million acres of

federal forests would be prohibited under a U.S. Forest Service action

expected next month. The rules would also ban most timber harvesting

in those areas, covering more than one-third of the 192 million acres

of the last untouched wilderness areas administered by the

U.S. Forest Service. "

 

" Packaged beef, pork and poultry products would have mandatory

labels with information about vitamins, calories, fat, cholesterol and

other nutritional content. Clinton requested the labeling early this

year, and Agriculture Secretary Dan Glickman proposed the rules

during the National Nutrition Summit in May. "

 

" Farmers, wild crop harvesters and packages that want to bill their

products as organically produced would have to meet a national

standard being developed by the Agriculture Department. The

regulations would bring consistency to the dozens of often-conflicting

standards now used by states and private organizations. The Rules

would bar spraying of prohibited pesticides and other substances to

fields for at least three years before harvesting and require crop

rotation. Animals raised for slaughter would have to be raised in an

organic setting virtually from birth. "

 

" Scores of widely used organophosphate pesticides could be restricted

or banned under a two-year EPA review now nearing completion.

Products under review include diazinon, widely used on farms and in

households, and the commercial weed-killer atrazine. Exposure to

the substances can cause neurological damage, the EPA says. "

 

" But some opponents accuse the Democratic administration of

maneuvering around the GOP-controlled Congress in a bid to drive

regulatory stakes into the ground before Clinton's departure from

office Jan. 20. They note that the Environmental Protection Agency

alone is eyeing more than 60 anticipated new regulations. "

 

" Any effort to yank out the regulatory stakes could be difficult.

While a new President could delay, modify, or rescind the decisions,

a new president cannot easily ignore the lengthy public hearing process

that often produced the rules. "

 

" Similarly, the House and Senate may seek changes under the

Congressional Review Act, but that procedure isn't always successful

can can be time-consuming. "

 

 

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