President Clinton has the Lands Legacy Land Grab he wants, the environmental movement has a pile of grant money to stuff their faces with, and Alaska gets - umm, uhh, well, Alaska got peanuts. Billion total, over 15 years. Appropriations Committees make final decisions each year on how much of the funds to spend in which categories. So most of the money can be steered away from land acquisition. But basically, CPIA is bad news for us, it makes much more money available for land acquisition and grant money to the preservationists.
Nothing says the accounts have to be funded.
They probably will be, but at least we will have a say on how much. That is utter nonsense. Oh yeah, the money. This is breaking news, and the numbers are all not in yet. But Bill Clinton got his.