mr. turner: i have an amendment at the desk, amendment 498. the chair: clerk will designate the amendment. the clerk: amendment 498 printed in the congressional record offered by mr. johnson of ohio. the chair: the gentleman from ohio, mr. johnson and member opposed, each will control five minutes. the chair recognizes the gentleman from ohio. mr. johnson: my amendment would stop the department of interior and enforcement from going forward with the proposed revision to the stream buffer rule that could, according to the obama's administration own analysis eliminate up to 29,000 coal industry and coal-related jobs. cut coal mining production by 50% and increase the cost of electricity for families and businesses. in december, 2008, o.s.m. issued a clarification of the stream buffer zone rules after a five-year process that included 40,000 public comments, two proposed rules and 5,000 pages of environmental analysis from five different agencies. the final rule clarified and codified coal surface mining practices that had been in effect for over

mr. turner's comments, these things sound to me like reasonable actions. i will take out of this. ring the charge whether to look into why we opposed them and why we should not go forward on our own even without legislation. >> i would appreciate what to do that of getting back to me and some form so that i and others who felt this was important. one thing we have them is that despite all the good efforts on the part of the services, the follow-up procedures do not support -- they undermine the efforts you have made around preventing this in the first place, provided access to medical care. if the fall legal processes do not sufficiently protect the victim and make them comfortable in coming forward, this undermines all the good work you have done. they become suspect of the entire process and feel very much at risk. this was one very common-sense way going forward in the legal process a loan that we felt we could better protect victims as they try to assert their rights better of this is one of the reasons why we have invested almost $2 million in training our prosecutors. >> whe