HomeMy WebLinkAbout0997 WHEREAS, Public Law 273 commonly known as the
Sustained Yield Act of 19&&, was established to preserve
forest-dependent communities, and
WHEREAS, employment in our sister cities of Hoquiam,
Aberdeen, Elms, Montesano, McCleary and Shelton, is almost
entirely dependent on forest industries, and
WHEREAS, Sustained Yield units established by the
United States Forest Service guarantee long range resources
upon which said community can plan for permanence, and
WHEREAS, any interference with, or the removal of
these units could mean the closing of mills and loss of jobs
and disruption of progress made in the past decades, now,
therefore
BE IT RESOLYED by the City Council of the City of
Bremerton, that the Congress of the United States, be and it
is hereby requested to keep in effect Public Law 273 and that
it pass no act amending or repealing said act.
PASSED By the City Council of the City of Bremerton,
signed by the ~ayor and attested by the City Clerk in authentication
of such passage this 26th day of February, 1958.
H. O~-DOMSTAD~]V~ayor
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