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HOUSE
JOINT MEMORIAL 4007
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Passed
Legislature - 1993 Regular Session
State
of Washington 53rd Legislature 1993
Regular Session
By
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.
