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Version 82 · Passed Senate without amendment · Oct 10, 2004
(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary has been expanded because action occurred on the measure.)
Caribbean National Forest Act of 2004 - Designates the El Toro Wilderness in the Caribbean National Forest/Luquillo Experimental Forest in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico as a component of the National Wilderness Preservation System.
Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to: (1) prepare a boundary description of the El Toro Wilderness and submit the map and boundary description to specified congressional committees; (2) administer the El Toro Wilderness in accordance with the Wilderness Act and this Act. Requires that the map and boundary description of the El Toro Wilderness be placed on file and be available for public inspection in the office of the Chief of the Forest Service.
Prohibits anything in this Act from precluding the installation and maintenance of hydrologic, meteorological, climatological, or atmospheric data collection and remote transmission facilities that are essential to the scientific research purposes of the Luquillo Experimental Forest.
People & committees
Sen. Clinton, Hillary Rodham [D-NY] · D–NY
Legislative record
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Referred to the Subcommittee on Forests and Forest Health.
Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
Message on Senate action sent to the House.
Received in the House.
Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S11127-11183; text: CR S11174)
Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent.(consideration: CR S11127-11183; text: CR S11174)
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 727.
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Reported by Senator Domenici without amendment. With written report No. 108-368.
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Reported by Senator Domenici without amendment. With written report No. 108-368.
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Public Lands and Forests. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 108-714.
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. (text of measure as introduced: CR S4302)
Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S4302)
Introduced in Senate
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