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United Press International
WASHINGTON — The House
Budget Committee, having made
the easy decisions, now must roll up
its sleeves and decide whether to
adopt controversial cuts in mail de
livery, defense spending and re
venue sharing.
The panel resumed work Thurs
day on the $15.9 billion in recom
mended reductions from President
Carter’s January budget proposal for
fiscal 1981.
The proposals by committee
Chairman Robert Giaimo, D-Conn.,
included elimination of Saturday
mail delivery, revenue sharing to the
states, and cuts in defense spending,
jobs and social programs, and financ
ing for food stamps and child nutri
tion.
Giaimo unveiled his package
Wednesday with a warning the prop
osal, aimed at balancing the federal
budget, “will anger many groups and
many beneficiaries of federal prog
rams.”
It calls for more than $1 billion
worth of unspecified cuts in defense
spending, despite major opposition
to military reductions of any kind.
It also would make all members of
Congress and their staff forego a cost-
of-living wage increase scheduled for
October.
The biggest cut would be $1.7 bil
lion in no-strings-attached aid to the
states — known as revenue sharing
— and $1 billion in anti-recession aid
to cities.
Also $1 billion in a 2 percent
save another $1 billion.
If the panel’s revenue estimate
holds along with the $612.4 billion
spending projection, the govern
ment would be in the black by more
than $1 billion at the end of fiscal
1981, the first budget surplus in 12
years.
The House panel, beginning its
work a week ahead of the Senate
Budget Committee, Wednesday
went through the major budget cate
gories one-hy-one to act on Giaimo’s
proposed cuts.
The panel began drafting its re
commendations for the House even
though Carter has not yet sent Con
gress his revised proposal for a ba-
across-the-board cut in department lanced budget,
operation and administrative costs Carter has promised to cut $13 bil
and delays in new social initiatives lion to $14 billion from the federal
such as welfare reform and Medi- budget for the fiscal year beginning
care-Medicaid expansion that would Oct. 1.
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WASHINGTON — A one-year
study released Thursday by the Pre-
I sident’s Council on Environmental
Quality concludes that environmen-
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and effects of serious accidents.
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Council on Environmental Quality,
said past statements “don’t contain a
serious candid assessment” of acci
dent risk and potential impacts.
Impact statements, however, are
required by the National Environ
mental Policy Act specifically to in
form the public of the possible effects
of proposed nuclear projects by gov
ernment or industry.
Speth’s Council, although it can
not invalidate past impact state
ments, is charged by law with inter
preting the act.
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man of the Nuclear Regulatory Com
mission, Speth called for an immedi
ate change in current practices, in
cluding a candid discussion of acci
dent probability and impact.
Speth also urged the NRC to make
the statements clearer and more
accessible to the public.
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soon to be licensed, he said supple
mental impact statements should be
prepared on possible accidents.
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ment is establishing a special investi
gative force to stop the smuggling of
thousands of diseased birds, reptiles
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States.
The Justice Department Wednes
day signed two agreements with four
agencies setting up a Wildlife Law
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