Calendar Item Text: 464-70

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The Committee recommends concurrence as amended as follows:

In the first sentence, following "...disposal of toxic and nuclear waste;" insert "and that move toward the elimination of both;"

In the fourth sentence, substitute the word "encourage" with "strongly urge" (this was part of ` ...' in the original petition).

Amend ¶70A:

A) Water, Air, Soil, Minerals, Plants.--We support and encourage social policies that serve to reduce and control the creation of industrial by- products and waste; facilitate the safe processing and disposal of toxic and nuclear waste and that move toward the elimination of both; encourage reduction of municipal waste; provide for appropriate recycling and disposal of municipal waste; and assist the clean-up enhance the rejuvenation of polluted air, water, and soil. We support measures designed to maintain and restore natural ecosystems. which will halt the spread of deserts into formerly productive lands. We support regulations designed to protect plant life, including those that provide for reforestation and for conservation of grasslands. We support policies that develop alternatives to retard the indiscriminate use of chemicals, including those used for growing, processing, and preserving food, and encourage strongly urge adequate research...We urge development of international agreements concerning equitable utilization of the world's ocean's resources for human benefit so long as the integrity of the earth seas is maintained. Moreover, we support policies on the part of governments and industries that conserve fossil and other fuels, and that eliminate methods of securing minerals that destroy plants, animals, and soil. We encourage creation of new sources for food and power, while maintaining the goodness of the earth.

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