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Version 36 · Passed House amended · Sep 28, 1994
TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: National Park System Plan Title II: New Area Establishment National Park System Reform Act of 1994 - Title I: National Park System Plan - Requires the Secretary of the Interior, acting through the Director of the National Park Service, to prepare and submit to specified congressional committees a National Park System Plan to guide the direction of the System into the next century. Directs the Secretary to review the existing System to determine whether there are more appropriate alternatives for managing specific units within the System and to develop a report containing a list of areas where National Park Service management should be modified or terminated. Establishes a National Park System Review Commission to make and report such determinations if the Secretary fails to transmit the report within a specified time period. Title II: New Area Establishment - Removes certain reporting requirements concerning additional areas for the National Park System. Directs the Secretary to submit an annual list of areas recommended for study for potential inclusion in the System to specified congressional committees. Bars the initiation of any study of the potential of an area for inclusion in the System after this Act's enactment, except by specific authorization by an Act of the Congress. Requires studies to be completed within three fiscal years of the enactment date of legislation providing for study. Directs the Secretary to submit an annual list of areas which have been studied previously which contain primarily cultural or historical resources and areas which contain primarily natural resources in numerical order of priority for addition to the System.
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Rep. Hefley, Joel [R-CO-5] · R–CO
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Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
Received in the Senate.
Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: (2/3 required): 421 - 0 (Roll no. 444).
House roll call 444 · Individual votesPassed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: (2/3 required): 421 - 0 (Roll no. 444).
House roll call 444 · Individual votesConsidered as unfinished business. (consideration: CR H9939-9940)
Pursuant to the provisions of clause 5 of rule 1, the Speaker postponed until Wednesday, September 28, 1994, a roll call vote on the motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill H.R. 4476.
At the conclusion of debate, the Yeas and Nays were demanded and ordered. Pursuant to the provisions of clause 5, rule I, the chair announced that further proceedings on the motion would be postponed until Sept. 28.
DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate.
Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H9873-9876)
Mr. Vento moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended.
Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 402.
Reported by the Committee on Natural Resources. H. Rept. 103-725.
Reported by the Committee on Natural Resources. H. Rept. 103-725.
Ordered to be Reported by Voice Vote.
Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
Late Referral to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands (Jul 11, 1994).
Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
Introduced in House
Introduced in House
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