Directing the Secretary of the Interior to transmit to the House of Representatives certain information relating to the Secretary's Treasured Landscape Initiative, potential designation of National Monuments, and High Priority Land-Rationalization Efforts.
Placed on the House Calendar, Calendar No. 195.
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Version 79 · Reported to House without amendment · May 11, 2010
(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.)
Directs the Secretary of the Interior to transmit to the House of Representatives copies of all Department of the Interior documents, maps, records, communications, and other information dating from July 1, 2009, and later referring or relating to the potential designation of national monuments, the Secretary's Treasured Landscape Initiative, and high priority land-rationalization efforts, as specified.
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