Mike Rounds on Environment Republican SD Governor

Determine environmental regulations by cost/benefit analysis

Indicate which principles you support regarding the environment.
• Support “self-audit” legislation which creates incentives for industries to audit themselves and clean up pollution.
• Require a cost/benefit analysis to determine the economic impact of proposed environmental regulations before they implemented.
• Suspend participation in unfunded, federally mandated environmental protection legislation.
• Provide tax relief to wetland owners. Source: 1998 SD State Legislative National Political Awareness Test , Nov 1, 1998

  Allow private landowners to issue bounties for coyotes

  Q: Do you support a constitutional amendment limiting corporate hog farming?

  A: No.

  Q:Do you support taxing large surface mine companies to pay for any reclamation work needed after the mines are no longer in use?

  A: Yes.

  Q: Do you support permitting private landowners to issue bounties for coyotes killed on their property?

  A: Yes.

  Source: 1998 SD State Legislative National Political Awareness Test , Nov 1, 1998

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