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That languishing intent The environmental effectiveness of Congress has certainly withered. Land use, its No. 1 environmental priority and goal for several sessions, was simply not enacted. Many reasons are offered. But knowing the fate of this proposal, we wonder about the prospects for others such as strip mining as a start. Perhaps it's not so bad as it first seems. Reuse and recycle are becoming household words. All that may be necessary is the recycling of the legislation next time around. Land use. I t ' s a plan whose time has come. Without our trying to sound parochial, it has gone but it certainly will come again. Land use. I t ' s aimed at involving the public. It's for the protection of critical areas in the country where the land has value in excess of the local concern. Those renewable areas for each of which use involves considerations and judgment calls. Overall, it aims for the betterment and better use of man's limited natural habitat. When everyone heads out for this year's vacation retreat to that wellspring of human renewal-that land area that a former Secretary of the Interior spoke of in "The Quiet Crisis," it may well be that each must go farther and farther to find that renewable spot. Perhaps, he won't find it this year. Perhaps, each will find that certain of these land masses have been overburdened. And this would be good. Postvacation, hopefully post-Watergate, the climate may be more conducive to enactment. The crucial decision on land use and other concerns, including those environmental proposals, can be considered once again.
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