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The USS Missouri is already be queathed to Pearl Harbor, and that leaves several states scrapping for the rights to the USS New Jersey, the Iowa and the Wisconsin. The competing interests collide this week on Capitol Hill. The Sen ate Armed Services Committee will consider whether to free up the USS New Jersey to become a museum on New Jersey’s water front — a move that would take the USS Iowa out of donation sta tus, frustrating efforts to turn it into a museum in San Francisco. On all sides of the debate is an abiding respect for the four Iowa Class battleships — the New Jersey, Missouri, Iowa and Wisconsin — launched between 1942 and 1944 and active in conflicts from World War II to the Persian GulfWar. “For a show of force, you can’t beat the battleship,” said William L. “For a show of force, you can’t beat the battleship.” William L Stearman Director of the U.S. Naval Fire Support Association Stearman, director of the U.S. Naval Fire Support Association. “Only the battleship can belly up to a hostile area and show the flag and be a show of force.’’ The USS Missouri’s fate is settled. It soon will be towed to Pearl Harbor as a memorial to World War II. The Missouri, on whose decks the Japan ese surrendered to end the war, will be permanently docked near the USS Arizona, which was sunk in the Dec. 7, 1941, attack that thrust the United States into the war. The New Jersey, Wisconsin and Iowa remain in mothball status — moored in Navy shipyards in Bre merton, Wash.; Norfolk, Va.; and Philadelphia respectively. Through donations, the sale of vanity license plates and a checkoff on state income tax forms, a New Jersey commission already has raised $3 million to turn die USS New Jersey into a floating museum on its side of the Hudson River. But there is an obstacle: For now, the ship is officially not available. In 1996, after the Navy removed the four battleships from its register of ships, Congress ordered that two be restored to the list. The Navy moved the New Jersey and the Wis consin into reserve, leaving the Iowa and Missouri in donation status. New Jersey’s congressional dele gation has proposed repealing Con gress’ order. Tuesday • May 5,1 i Senate in J turmoil ovefc] oil royaltiesai WASHINGTON (AP)-Ai*l In some Lr.i miium-mantTl| ing from Sen. Kay BaileyHu:.y] I I son, the oil industry has iiM| aged to stave off a much-disiiy proposal i i; u w mild chan: ^1,1 way the federal governmen* sesses royalties for oilpunAl from federal lands. Critics describe the Teas j publican’s action as a windfalW oil companies ihat ilepriresfel ai millions ol dollars lorsitL. I j Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-CalilmJ Rep. Carolyn Maloney, D-NlMJ I' 1 epa 1 ing legislaiion ihaiinvi j overr ide Hutchisons measid lowing the Interior Departn’T ( proceed with its proposal. | During the final shaping)/^ emergency spending bill sigEf into law In PresidentClintonMlI week, Hutchison slipped inF guage temporarily bamngd:dP l ‘ i | to the current royalty s tie u hich the administrationtfeJtH tipped in favoi ol oil compaurwei'j "It is such a classic,stand] everything bad you hear om Washington' move, compindl I Danielle Brian, executive dirt® e] ot the Project on Govemm®hi 1 h oi dght, ,1 watt hdoggroup® ;I eoiitetuls oil companieshaclVuI j derpaid the govemmentnuxti®tsl I $2 billion in ro\ allies overthAel two decades. “p I Hutchison explained hern dil as necessary to halt Interior'sv l als Management Service from® plementing its proposal next: J0 “This will gi\ e( jingre^mF n eigh in on this matter, msfeaBDS] letting 1 he MMs arbiirarilycLpwit| the law through the exercise#! I $?■ rule making author ilv," - >eh • I But Interior officials reject® re l| suggt (ion that tl e\ h.fu ■; D [ ahead ai hm 1111\, u ilhnunncuh fill 1 input during the 2 I ah ' I which they have worked to dew d fJ I a new royalty system. ay' n 81 “It’s been really a bit frustra®^ < for us because we thinkv/etoBM tempted to rommunicate. dP I .ucy qiiert|iies I )enett, whodNted t sees Interior's royalty progradth $91 “Wecertainh arenihappv what’s occurred,” she said ? The I mating that for every monthW 01 '^ 1 ] rior is blocked from implen;rT eF loc T its new collection system,tail of H ers will lose $5.5 million. B ' nc l States receive half of die app' imately $1 billion annuallya ties for oil taken from federalf- shore property, using the fund?® education, public works and recreation. Neither side is happy \ current system, under whicli| companies pay royalties aftere mating the value of the oiltheij pumped from federal lands. 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