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                                             HOUSE JOINT MEMORIAL 4007

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State of Washington                              53rd Legislature                             1993 Regular Session

By Representatives Bray, Ludwig, Lisk, Grant, Mastin and Rayburn

Read first time 01/29/93.  Referred to Committee on Energy & Utilities.

Petitioning Congress and the Secretary of Energy to name the Hanford and Lands Ecology Reserve after Richard Fitzner and Les Ebe

          TO THE HONORABLE BILL CLINTON, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, AND TO THE PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE AND THE SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, AND TO THE SENATE AND HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE UNITED STATES, IN CONGRESS ASSEMBLED, AND TO SECRETARY OF ENERGY HAZEL O'LEARY:

          We, your Memorialists, the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Washington, in legislative session assembled, respectfully represent and petition as follows:

          WHEREAS,  Dick Fitzner and Les Eberhardt lost their lives in a plane crash on the morning of June 3, 1992; and

          WHEREAS, Dr. Fitzner and Dr. Eberhardt each served as environmental scientists for more than twenty years; and

          WHEREAS, Dr. Fitzner and Dr. Eberhardt dedicated their professional and personal lives to understanding and appreciating the dry land ecology of the shrubsteppe; and

          WHEREAS, They shared their appreciation and understanding of the shrubsteppe with students of all ages; and

          WHEREAS, The Hanford Arid Lands Ecology Reserve contains shrubsteppe habitat with threatened and endangered plants and animals as well as thriving populations of other species;

          NOW, THEREFORE, Your Memorialists respectfully pray that the Hanford Arid Lands Ecology Reserve be named the Fitzner and Eberhardt

Arid Lands Reserve.

          BE IT RESOLVED, That copies of this Memorial be immediately transmitted to the Honorable Bill Clinton, President of the United States, the Secretary of Energy Hazel O'Leary, the President of the United States Senate, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, and each member of Congress from the State of Washington.

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