S6146 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD— SENATE May 4, 1995 

proposed in the President’s Fiscal Year 1996 

Budget, is part of the Administration’s ongoing effort to reinvent the Federal Government. 

The Department of Energy recently announced the planned decommissioning of the 

Strategic Petroleum Reserve’s Weeks Island 

site. Water seeping into underground storage 

chambers is compromising the structural integrity of the facility, which holds nearly 73 

million barrels of oil. As a result the Department will transfer the oil to other sites in 

Louisiana and Texas, and sell up to seven 

million barrels of oil to finance the transfer 

and decommissioning, and other SPR activities. Currently, the Department has legislative authority to draw down and sell Strategic Petroleum Reserve oil only under 

emergency authorities vested in the President or as part of a test sale of up to five 

million barrels of oil. New authority is required for this proposed sale. 

The proposed legislation would authorize 

to the extent provided in appropriations Acts 

the sale and drawdown of up to seven million 

barrels of oil from the Reserve for purposes 

of removing the oil and decommissioning the 

site. Seven million barrels is equivalent to 

less than one day of oil imports, and would 

not appreciably affect the mission of the Reserve. Proceeds from the sale would be deposited in a special account known as the ‘‘SPR 

Decommissioning Fund’’ and would offset 

the cost of decommissioning and other SPR 

activities. This bill would also allow the sale 

proceeds to be counted as offsets to spending. 

Authority to contract for sale of oil under 

this section would expire on September 30, 

1996. 

We look forward to working with the Congress toward enactment of this legislation. 

The Office of Management and Budget advises that enactment of this proposal would 

be in accord with the program of the President. 

Sincerely, 

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HAZEL R. O’LEARY. 

MARJORIE S. ARUNDEL 

Mr. WARNER. Mr. President, I rise 

today to recognize a most distinguished Virginian, Mrs. Marjorie S. 

Arundel, of The Plains, VA, who has 

devoted her life to the conservation of 

our natural resources. 

As a member of the Garden Club of 

America, Marjorie Arundel has been 

recognized for her conservation efforts 

in the Commonwealth of Virginia and 

across our Nation. Her tireless work 

has throughout more than 30 years contributed much to preserve and enhance 

the natural beauty. 

I have had the pleasure of knowing 

both Mrs. Arundel and her late husband, Russell M. Arundel, for a number 

of years in Fauquier County. The contributions which they have made to 

that community are immeasurable. 

In the 1960’s, the Arundel family donated over 600 acres of their own land 

to the Nature Conservancy, which created the first Nature Conservancy preserve in Virginia. It is now known as 

Wildcat Mountain Natural Area. Due 

to her endeavors in conservation, Mrs. 

Arundel was awarded the Governor’s 

Certificate of Recognition from former 

Gov. CHARLES ROBB, my junior colleague in the Senate. 

There are several projects that are 

trademark Marjorie Arundel with her 

typical ingenuity and spirit. I recall 

fondly meeting with Mrs. Arundel in 

the 1980’s regarding a highway widening north of Warrenton. Mrs. Arundel promptly brought to my attention 

a 200-year-old oak tree which stood directly in the proposed roadway. In an 

effort to spare the tree, Mrs. Arundel 

then met with officials from the Virginia Department of Transportation, 

who agreed to bypass the removal of 

the tree. Today, that ‘‘Loretta Oak’’

stands proudly and continues to live 

and be enjoyed by all. 

As a gardener with a special interest 

in wild plants, Mrs. Arundel became 

aware that several species were being 

dug out of the wild and sold to commercial interests. These actions created serious wildflower depletions in 

the Virginia mountainside and our 

neighboring States. Her crusade to protect the wild populations from both 

trade domestic and abroad was truly a 

labor of love. Using her trademark ingenuity, Mrs. Arundel drafted the support of World Wildlife Fund, the Natural Resources Defense Council, and 

the Garden Club of America. 

And with similar success, Mrs. Arundel has taken on other tough environmentally conscious issues, like pesticide and pollution abuses in the environment. 

Mrs. Arundel’s achievements include 

the Award of Honor presented by the 

World Wildlife Fund; an American 

Achievement Medal from the Garden 

Club of America; a Stewardship of the 

Land Award from the Virginia Chapter 

of the America Society of Landscape 

Architects; Communicator of the Year 

Award from the American Horticultural Society; and the Delacy Gray 

Memorial Medal for Conservation as ‘‘a 

conservation leader who demonstrates 

a love for the nature environment and 

a responsibility for its preservation.’’

There are many accolades bestowed 

upon this great lady, but ‘‘The Land 

Ethic’’ well speaks to Marjorie 

Arundel’s testimony to natural integrity as, ‘‘Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land.

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NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF RETIRED FEDERAL EMPLOYEES 

WEEK 

Mr. THOMPSON. Mr. President, it 

gives me great pleasure at this time to 

request the unanimous consent of my 

colleagues to have printed in the 

RECORD a proclamation by the Governor of my State of Tennessee; Don 

Sundquist. 

On March 21 of this year, the Honorable Governor Don Sundquist signed 

the proclamation that the week of 

April 17–22, 1995, shall be known in Tennessee as National Association of Retired Federal Employees Week. 

Our State’s chapter of this national 

organization is very spirited and active. Many members of this association 

have volunteered their time and energy 

to help organize relief and recovery efforts in Oklahoma City. 

It is this spirit of contribution that 

continues to distinguish all civil servants, retired and employed. 

There being no objection, the proclamation was ordered to be printed in the 

RECORD, as follows: 

Whereas the United States Civil Service 

Act of 1883 was signed into law by then President Chester A. Arthur, thereby creating the 

United States Civil Service System; and 

Whereas the United States Civil Service 

Retirement System was created in 1920 and 

signed into law by then President Woodrow 

Wilson; and 

Whereas virtually every State, county, and 

municipal civil service system have developed from the Civil Service Act; and 

Whereas untold thousands of United States 

Civil Service employees have worked diligently, patriotically, silently, and with little 

notice to uphold the highest traditions and 

ideas of our country; and 

Whereas thousands of Federal employees 

are retired in Tennessee and continue to devote inestimable time and effort toward the 

betterment of our communities and State. 

Now therefore, I, Don Sundquist, Governor 

of the State of Tennessee, do hereby proclaim the week of April 17–22, 1995, as ‘‘National Association of Retired Federal Employees Week’’ in Tennessee, and do urge all 

our citizens to join in this worthy observance. 

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SOUTH DAKOTA SMALL 

BUSINESSMAN OF THE YEAR 

Mr. DASCHLE. Mr. President, I may 

be a little biased, but I have always believed if you give South Dakotans an 

even break, they can make a living 

even under the toughest circumstances. 

Yesterday I met with a man who 

proves my point. His name is Randy 

Boyd, and he was just named South Dakota’s 1995 Small Business Owner of 

the Year by the Small Business Administration. 

Randy lives in a town of 300 people 

called Geddes in southeast South Dakota with his wife, Sheila, and their 

two young children, Cassidy and Vincent. 

He moved back to Geddes in 1982, 

after his dad had a heart attack and 

helped move his father’s gunsmithing 

business from his garage into a 400- 

square-foot shop, where they worked 

together repairing guns. Later that 

year, Randy and his father bought a 

two-spindle carving machine that could 

make up to eight gunstocks a day. 

Today, Boyd’s Gunstocks Industries 

is one of the largest original-equipment manufactuers of gunstocks in the 

country. It has grown from 3 employees 

in 1986 to 22 full-time and 10 part-time 

workers, plus 10 who do contract work 

at home. Company sales have skyrocketed from $29,000 in 1986 to more 

than $1 million last year. 

In 1992, with help from the Small 

Business Administration, Randy was 

able to obtain a new warehouse for raw 

materials, as well as new computerized 

equipment to improve efficiency. The 

business now occupies 13,500 square 

feet. 

One of Randy’s biggest challenges is 

finding enough skilled workers in a 

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