Summary of Analysis of Taxol Agreements.

Discusses issues relating to the Congressional hearing on the controversial "Taxol Agreements" between the Forest Service (FS) and Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMS) and between BMS and the BLM, both of which allow BMS to harvest yew trees on Federal lands in the Pacific Northwest for Taxol, an an...

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Corporate Authors: Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service, ProQuest (Firm)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 1991-1992.
Series:U.S. Congressional Research.
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Summary:Discusses issues relating to the Congressional hearing on the controversial "Taxol Agreements" between the Forest Service (FS) and Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMS) and between BMS and the BLM, both of which allow BMS to harvest yew trees on Federal lands in the Pacific Northwest for Taxol, an anti-cancer drug. Analyzes whether FS and BLM have legal authority to authorize an agreement in which Federal resources are disposed of at no charge to a commercial enterprise.
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