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INTERIOR AND INSULAR AFFAIRS.

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

NINETY-SECOND CONGRESS

FIRST SESSION

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COMMITTEE ON INTERIOR AND INSULAR AFFAIRS

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

WAYNE N. ASPINALL, Colorado, Chairman

JAMES A. HALEY, Florida
ED EDMONDSON, Oklahoma
WALTER S. BARING, Nevada
ROY A. TAYLOR, North Carolina
HAROLD T. JOHNSON, California
MORRIS K. UDALL, Arizona
PHILLIP BURTON, California
THOMAS S. FOLEY, Washington

ROBERT W. KASTENMEIER, Wisconsin
JAMES G. O'HARA, Michigan
WILLIAM F. RYAN, New York
PATSY T. MINK, Hawaii

JAMES KEE, West Virginia
LLOYD MEEDS, Washington
ABRAHAM KAZEN, JR., Texas
BILL D. BURLISON, Missouri
ROBERT G. STEPHENS, JR., Georgia
JOSEPH P. VIGORITO, Pennsylvania
JOHN MELCHER, Montana

TENO RONCALIO, Wyoming

NICK BEGICH, Alaska

JAMES ABOUREZK, South Dakota

JOHN P. SAYLOR, Pennsylvania,
Ranking Minority Member
CRAIG HOSMER, California

JOE SKUBITZ, Kansas
JOHN KYL, Iowa

SAM STEIGER, Arizona
JAMES A. McCLURE, Idaho
DON H. CLAUSEN, California
PHILIP E. RUPPE, Michigan
JOHN N. HAPPY CAMP, Oklahoma
MANUEL LUJAN, JR., New Mexico
SHERMAN P. LLOYD, Utah
JOHN DELLENBACK, Oregon
KEITH G. SEBELIUS, Kansas
JAMES D. McKEVITT, Colorado
JOHN H. TERRY, New York
JORGE L. CÓRDOVA, Puerto Rico
(Resident Commissioner)

SIDNEY L. MCFARLAND, Staff Director and Chief Clerk

LEWIS A. SIGLER, Counsel

CHARLES LEPPERT, Jr., Minority Counsel

JAMES A. HALEY ROY A. TAYLOR THOMAS S. FOLEY WILLIAM F. RYAN PATSY T. MINK

LLOYD MEEDS

BILL D. BURLISON

TERRITORIAL AND INSULAR AFFAIRS

ROBERT G. STEPHENS, JR.

JOSEPH P. VIGORITO

TENO RONCALIO

NICK BEGICH

NOTE.

PHILLIP BURTON, Chairman

DON H. CLAUSEN
CRAIG HOSMER
JOE SKUBITZ
PHILIP E. RUPPE
MANUEL LUJAN, JR.
KEITH G. SEBELIUS

JAMES D. McKEVITT
JORGE L. CORDOVA

WILLIAM G. THOMAS, Consultant on Territorial and Insular Affairs

The chairman, Hon. Wayne N. Aspinall, and the ranking minority member, Hon. John P. Saylor, are ex officio members of this subcommittee.

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Additional information:

Agreement between the government of the Virgin Islands and the Harvey Alumina Virgin Islands, Inc., dated January 1, 1962____ Government of the Virgin Islands-Summary of selected data on grants of tax exemption and subsidy and subsidies paid by fiscal years (table)___

Hess Oil Co., Submerged Lands permit No. 3_.

Amendment No. 1 to Submerged Lands Permit No. 3..
Amendment No. 2 to Submerged Lands Permit No. 3......

U.S. Department of the Interior, Öffice of Territories, major areas of
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BRIEFING SESSION BY THE DEPARTMENT OF INTERIOR

ON TERRITORIAL PROBLEMS

TUESDAY, APRIL 20, 1971

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,

SUBCOMMITTEE ON TERRITORIAL AND INSULAR AFFAIRS

COMMITTEE ON INTERIOR AND INSULAR AFFAIRS,

Washington, D.C.

The subcommittee met, pursuant to notice, at 9:57 a.m., in room 1324, Longworth House Office Building, Hon. Phillip Burton (chairman of the subcommittee) presiding.

Mr. BURTON. We will call the Subcommittee on Territorial and Insular Affairs meeting to order. We would like to welcome the Department of Interior representatives who are here today to brief the members of the subcommittee.

We would like to welcome our distinguished chairman, Mr. Aspinall, and congratulate our distinguished colleague from Puerto Rico, Jorge Córdova, on his birthday. Thank

you.

Commissioner, would you care to brief us on some of the highlights of your personal career? It's been so long and you still look so

young.

Mr. CÓRDOVA. I note that we are considering among other things, the variety of types of status of different territories. My political career has been devoted almost entirely to the problem of status in Puerto Rico, and it is the reason I am here as the Resident Commissioner from Puerto Rico, that I am in politics. It is a real issue in Puerto Rico, in spite of the fact that we have obtained, after a number of years, a considerable degree of autonomy, self-government, greater, certainly than any territory achieved on its way to statehood.

I have been, before entering politics, a lawyer and, for a few years, a judge in Puerto Rico. I also dabbled in teaching law. It is a difficult thing to try to teach law and also practice it at the same time. Well, that about sums it up briefly and brings me up to date. Mr. BURTON. We are delighted to share this occasion with you.

Mr. ASPINALL. May the record show that our colleague from Puerto Rico has never been content with the status quo. He has always been one to march forward.

Mr. CÓRDOVA. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. You are quite correct. Mr. BURTON. Mr. Harrison Loesch, the Assistant Secretary of the Department of Interior.

Mr. Loesch, would you and Mrs. Farrington come forward. Please proceed.

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