{"database": "openregs", "table": "congressional_record", "rows": [["CREC-1996-10-21-pt1-PgE1938-2", "1996-10-21", 104, 2, null, null, "COMMENDING THE SAVE THE DUNES COUNCIL", "HOUSE", "EXTENSIONS", "COMMENDING", "E1938", "E1938", "[{\"name\": \"Peter J. Visclosky\", \"role\": \"speaking\"}]", null, "142 Cong. Rec. E1938", "Congressional Record, Volume 142 Issue 143 (Monday, October 21, 1996)\n\n[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 143 (Monday, October 21, 1996)]\n[Extensions of Remarks]\n[Page E1938]\nFrom the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]\n\n                 COMMENDING THE SAVE THE DUNES COUNCIL\n\n                                 ______\n\n                        HON. PETER J. VISCLOSKY\n\n                               of indiana\n\n                    in the house of representatives\n\n                        Monday, October 21, 1996\n\n  Mr. VISCLOSKY. Mr. Speaker, it is my honor to commend the Save the\nDunes Council, and its executive director, Tom Anderson, as they\ncelebrate their 44th anniversary. The Save the Dunes Council is\nprimarily responsible for the creation of the Indiana Dunes National\nLakeshore, which celebrates its 30th anniversary this year.\n  The Save the Dunes Council was formed to establish a dunes national\npark. Its main goal was to fight off plans of powerful political and\neconomic interests to industrialize the entire Hoosier shoreline on\nLake Michigan. In 1952, Dorothy Buell, a citizen of Ogden Dunes,\ninvited two dozen area women to a meeting in her house on the first day\nof the summer. This fledgling group was called the Save the Dunes\nCouncil. Their main focus was to raise money to buy the 5 miles of\nbeach and dunes generally located between the towns of Dune Acres on\nthe east and Ogden Dunes on the west. These women did succeed in\npurchasing a piece of the unprotected land at a 1953 Port County tax\nsale, which now stands as Cowles Bog.\n  From these early beginnings, the council, which included Herb and\nCharlotte Read, and Illinois Senator Paul Douglas, traveled to\nWashington, DC, to fight plans to industrialize the area. As a result,\non November 5, 1966, the first Indiana Dunes bill was enacted to create\nthe 5,800-acre Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore. Since 1983, Dale B.\nEnquist has been superintendent of the Indiana Dunes National\nLakeshore. This year, Mr. Enquist received the Department of the\nInterior's highest honor, the Meritorious Service Award.\n  The Council fought corporate interests and the entire Indiana\nlegislative and congressional delegations in the days before the\nNational Environmental Policy Act and open meetings law. While two\nsteel plants and a deep water port on Lake Michigan now sit in the\nheart of the dunes, 14,000 acres of Indiana's dunes are forever\nprotected as a State and national parkland.\n  The Save the Dunes Council developed tactics and strategies that were\nnever used before. It stood up to corporate America and won the battle.\nThe Save the Dunes Council has preserved one of the country's most\nbeautiful and precious assets to ever exist. Mr. Speaker, I ask you and\nmy other distinguished colleagues to join me in commending the Save the\nDunes Council, as well as the hope it embodies in its continuing effort\nto preserve our environment.\n\n                          ____________________"]], "columns": ["granule_id", "date", "congress", "session", "volume", "issue", "title", "chamber", "granule_class", "sub_granule_class", "page_start", "page_end", "speakers", "bills", "citation", "full_text"], "primary_keys": ["granule_id"], "primary_key_values": ["CREC-1996-10-21-pt1-PgE1938-2"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.33728801645338535, "source": "Federal Register API & Regulations.gov API", "source_url": "https://www.federalregister.gov/developers/api/v1", "license": "Public Domain (U.S. Government data)", "license_url": "https://www.regulations.gov/faq"}