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Environment News Service : Bipartisan Sen . . . Compromise Pledges $3 B for Conservation http : //ens . lycos . com/ens/jul2000/2000L- 07- l7-06 . html <br /> Search1 04 d I I <br /> If LYC 0 . lea [t ! <br /> School play. saps nicetlr and dcntist appointment' <br /> Get FamilyTime - Get Organized. Click here. <br /> Locos Home > News > Environment > <br /> Top News <br /> Headlines Environment g <br /> Environment <br /> News Message <br /> Board Bipartisan Senate Compromise Pledges $ 3 B <br /> for Conservation <br /> Personal News <br /> Page <br /> By Cat Lazaroff <br /> Environment <br /> Websites WASHINGTON , DC, July 17 , 2000 ( ENS ) - Royalties generated by <br /> underwater oil and gas development on the outer continental shelf <br /> News Web Guide around the United States may soon be flowing into coastal and <br /> inland conservation programs now that a breakthough has occurred <br /> Current Events in a formidable political logjam . <br /> Chat <br /> After months of partisan wrangling , the ranking Republican and <br /> Science News Democrat on the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee <br /> have struck a deal that could send $ 3 billion a year into conservation <br /> E - Wire programs . The bipartisan compromise reached Friday won support <br /> Instant Updates from President Bill Clinton and some environmentalists . <br /> Environment Funds from off shore oil <br /> 4 drilling could soon flow to <br /> News Index <br /> state and federal conservation <br /> Environment ` programs . Oil rig south of New <br /> Events Calendar Orleans in the Gulf of Mexico, <br /> 1955 Photo by Robert Pryce, <br /> 1 _ courtesy National Oceanic and <br /> ENS Features � Atmospheric Administration ) <br /> EcoTravel <br /> EDF Scorecard <br /> Shopping Green ~ -i ; ' The committee starts debate <br /> Cartoons =� ` today on the Senate version of <br /> T r the Conservation and <br /> 11. L <br /> " = Reinvestment Act ( CARA ) , HR <br /> L <br /> 7011 a bill that would devote <br /> billions of dollars in offshore oil <br /> za fi k. drilling revenues to <br /> environmental protection , federal <br /> and state land acquisitions and <br /> outdoor recreation . The new <br /> version includes changes <br /> proposed by committee chair Senator Frank Murkowski , an Alaska <br /> Republican , and ranking minority member Jeff Bingaman , a New <br /> r 711 klmnn 1047 PM <br />