Y 4.896/10:5.hry.100-679 S. HRG. 100-679 APPLICATION OF THE NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY ACT TO U.S. PARTICIPATION IN AC- GS RECORD ONLY: HEARING BEFORE THE SUBCOMMITTEE ON OF THE COMMITTEE ON UNITED STATES SENATE ONE HUNDREDTH CONGRESS SECOND SESSION UNIVERCITY JUNE 16, 1988 STANFORD Printed for the use of the Committee on Environment and Public Works U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 87-156 WASHINGTON : 1988 For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, Congressional Sales Office U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC 20402 COMMITTEE ON ENVIRONMENT AND PUBLIC WORKS QUENTIN N. BURDICK, North Dakota, Chairman DANIEL PATRICK MOYNIHAN, New York ROBERT T. STAFFORD, Vermont GEORGE J. MITCHELL, Maine JOHN H. CHAFEE, Rhode Island MAX BAUCUS, Montana ALAN K. SIMPSON, Wyoming FRANK R. LAUTENBERG, New Jersey STEVE SYMMS, Idaho JOHN B. BREAUX, Louisiana DAVE DURENBERGER, Minnesota BARBARA A. MIKULSKI, Maryland JOHN W. WARNER, Virginia HARRY REID, Nevada LARRY PRESSLER, South Dakota BOB GRAHAM, Florida PETER D. PROWITT, Staff Director SUBCOMMITTEE ON HAZARDOUS WASTES AND Toxic SUBSTANCES MAX BAUCUS, Montana, Chairman FRANK R. LAUTENBERG, New Jersey DAVE DURENBERGER, Minnesota BARBARA A. MIKULSKI, Maryland JOHN H. CHAFEE, Rhode Island HARRY REID, Nevada ALAN K. SIMPSON, Wyoming BOB GRAHAM, Florida STEVE SYMMS, Idaho (II) CONTENTS OPENING STATEMENTS Page Baucus, Hon. Max, U.S. Senator from the State of Montana 1 Symms, Hon. Steve, U.S. Senator from the State of Idaho Barnes, James, senior attorney, Environmental Policy Institute..... Written statement..... 211 Bramble, Barbara, director, international programs, National Wildlife Federa- Burnham, James B., senior vice president, Mellon Bank Edwards, R. Augustus, III, Deputy Assistant Administrator for External Af- fairs, Environmental Protection Agency Hill, Hon. A. Alan, Chairman, Council on Environmental Quality Malpass, David R., Deputy Assistant Secretary for Developing Nations, De- Nitze, William A., Deputy Assistant Secretary of State, Bureau of Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs, Department of State ...... Reilly, William K., president, World Wildlife Fund and the Conservation Written statement.. 79 32 93, 115 27 71 54 ADDITIONAL MATERIAL Gobal Environment Project Institute.. Kasten, Hon. Bob, U.S. Senator from the State of Wisconsin ..... Sanford, Hon. Terry, U.S. Senator from the State of North Carolina (III) 29 40557 1858 XL inin APPLICATION OF THE NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY ACT TO U.S. PARTICIPATION IN ACTIONS OF INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL IN. STITUTIONS THURSDAY, JUNE 16, 1988 U.S. SENATE, COMMITTEE ON ENVIRONMENT AND PUBLIC WORKS, SUBCOMMITTEE ON HAZARDOUS WASTES AND Toxic SUBSTANCES, Washington, DC. The subcommittee met, pursuant to notice, at 9:32 a.m., in room 406, Dirksen Senate Office Building, Hon. Max Baucus, (chairman of the subcommittee) presiding. Present: Senators Baucus, Symms, and Durenberger. OPENING STATEMENT OF HON. MAX BAUCUS, U.S. SENATOR FROM THE STATE OF MONTANA Senator BAUCUS. The subcommittee will come to order. The subcommittee is meeting this morning to hear testimony on a subject of national and international importance. Simply stated, should the United States require that economic development projects for other countries meet our own strict environmental standards before we support development loans for these projects? In essence, should the United States' domestic policies be the guidelines for our foreign policy, especially when it applies to developing nations? We are only too familiar with the profound global effects of deforestation, loss of productive farmland through substandard agricultural practices, and through poorly conceived hydropower projects. The bottom line is that bad economic development projects result in incalculable human suffering and the destruction of almost irreplaceable natural resources. Examples abound of projects financed by the international community that have gone seriously awry because of bad planning and poor implementation. In Botswana, a beef export project backfired, causing widespread desertification and destruction of wildlife populations. The cruelest irony is that despite large exports of beef, 65 percent of that country is now dependent on foreign food aid where once it was selfsufficient. In Brazil, the Polonoreste project has been an economic and social disaster, with global implications. Thousands of people were (1) |
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