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States set to battle over battleships
WASHINGTON (AP) — Ameri
ca’s outdated battleships no longer
rule the waves, but they still com
mand a lot of attention. The four
that remain in the Navy’s posses
sion are at the center of one last bat
tle: States on both coasts are vying
to turn them into museums.
And some in Congress say these
mothballed behemoths remain un
rivaled in firepower and intimida
tion and at least two should stay in
military reserve.
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.
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turmoil ovefc]
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aged to stave off a much-disiiy
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sesses royalties for oilpunAl
from federal lands.
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j publican’s action as a windfalW
oil companies ihat ilepriresfel
ai millions ol dollars lorsitL. I
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Rep. Carolyn Maloney, D-NlMJ
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overr ide Hutchisons measid
lowing the Interior Departn’T (
proceed with its proposal. |
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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
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as necessary to halt Interior'sv l
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plementing its proposal next: J0
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letting 1 he MMs arbiirarilycLpwit|
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suggt (ion that tl e\ h.fu â– ; 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
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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.
Major and independent!?]
ducers alike also have compel
about the current process,will
has exposed them to lawsul
charging that they have iindcn|
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