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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: MSI who wrote (274648)	7/13/2002 7:21:04 PM
From: Skywatcher	Respond to of 769670

White House Faulted Over Manatees By JOHN HEILPRIN Associated Press Writer July 12, 2002, 8:02 PM EDT WASHINGTON -- The Bush administration, after missing a court-approved deadline, has been given until Monday to propose a new timetable for protecting endangered manatees from boaters off the coast of Florida. A federal judge ruled this week that delays by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in creating safe havens for manatees violated a court-approved settlement last year with environmentalists who sued to have the large, blubbery sea creatures protected. Fish and Wildlife had agreed to have the measures in place by last September in settling a suit by the Maitland, Fla.-based Save the Manatee Club and 17 other groups. Last August, the federal agency proposed creating 16 new refuges and sanctuaries along the coast of Florida. By January, however, it had established only two refuges, bowing to a request by Florida Gov. Jeb Bush to delay action on the other 14 so that state officials could first put in their own protections. U.S. District Judge Emmet G. Sullivan ruled this week that the delay violated the settlement agreement. "As plaintiffs have pointed out, no justification has been offered for this delay other than Governor Bush's request to allow the state to proceed alone with respect to manatee protection in Florida," Sullivan wrote in a ruling made available to case attorneys late Thursday. Chuck Underwood, a Fish and Wildlife Service spokesman in Jacksonville, Fla., said his agency had wanted to honor the governor's request but would get a new timetable to the judge next week. Boaters have challenged the need to establish slow-speed zones and areas prohibiting watercraft, accusing environmentalists of exaggerating the threats to manatees, which are listed as an endangered species by the government. If it's not the economic stuff....it's the environmental stuff...HELL...they are both LATE with stuff aren't they.?.. CC