Office of Governor William P. Clements, Jr. September 30, 1981 For Immediate Release: Governor Bill Clements today introduced and won approval for three resolutions at the 1981 Southern Governors Conference in San Juan, Puerto Rico. The resolutions address the issues of the Mediterranean fruit fly, synthetic fuels, and federal fiscal impact notes. One resolution -- noting that the recent outbreak of the Mediterranean fruit fly in California poses a threat to agricultural interests in the Southern states -- encourages the United States Department of Agriculture to allow all states to exorcise their proper police powers by imposing fumigations and cold storage procedures on produce coming from infested and buffer areas. Furthermore, the resolution calls on the USDA to immediately expand its quarantine in California to cover all buffer zone areas surrounding those areas found to be infested with the Mediterranean fruit fly. A second resolution supports the timely development of the synthetic fuels industry through the United States Synthetic Fuel Corp. The resolution notes that the front-end cost of installing a synthetic fuel plant, coupled with the high cost of debt financing, makes it virtually impossible for all but the largest, best financed, United States companies to develop alone the synthetic fuel industry on the schedule that our national security, defense, and economy requires The third resolution endorses HR 1465, currently pending in Congress, which would require Congress to include a state-local fiscal note in all legislation impacting state and local governments. 0