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Version 01 · Reported to Senate with amendment(s) · Sep 16, 2008
Orchard Detention Basin Flood Control Act - Finds that specified land in the Sunrise Mountain Instant Study Area of Clark County, Nevada, has been adequately studied for wilderness suitability and releases it from further wilderness study.
Provides that the Secretary of the Interior is no longer required to manage it as wilderness and that it shall be managed in accordance with land management plans adopted under the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 and cooperative conservation agreements in existence on the date of the enactment of this Act.
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Rep. Porter, Jon C. [R-NV-3] · R–NV
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Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 1012.
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Reported by Senator Bingaman with an amendment and an amendment to the title. Without written report.
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Reported by Senator Bingaman with an amendment and an amendment to the title. Without written report.
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Ordered to be reported with amendments favorably.
Subcommittee on Public Lands and Forests. Hearings held.
Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: (2/3 required): 375 - 0 (Roll no. 90). (text: CR H1198)
House roll call 90 · Individual votesPassed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: (2/3 required): 375 - 0 (Roll no. 90).(text: CR H1198)
House roll call 90 · Individual votesConsidered as unfinished business. (consideration: CR H1206)
At the conclusion of debate, the Yeas and Nays were demanded and ordered. Pursuant to the provisions of clause 8, rule XX, the Chair announced that further proceedings on the motion would be postponed.
DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 816.
Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H1198-1199)
Mr. Rahall moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended.
Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 322.
Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Natural Resources. H. Rept. 110-531.
Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Natural Resources. H. Rept. 110-531.
Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by Unanimous Consent.
Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests, and Public Lands Discharged.
Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
Subcommittee Hearings Held.
Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands.
Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
Introduced in House
Introduced in House
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