U.S. Assistance to Foreign Copper Producers and the Effects on Domestic Industries and Environmental Standards: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Mining, Forest Management, and Bonneville Power Administration of the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, House of Representatives, Ninety-eighth Congress, First Session, on U.S. Assistance to Foreign Copper Producers and the Effects on Domestic Industries and Environmental Standards, Hearing Held in Tucson, Ariz, May 20, 1983 |
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Page 79 - Thank you very much. With that the subcommittee is adjourned. [Whereupon, at...
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Page 44 - Gagel, we will just start with you; we will move across the panel, and thank you very much for coming, and we look forward to your testimony.