[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2552 Introduced in House (IH)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2552

To require that all Government records that contain information bearing 
 on the last flight and disappearance of Amelia Earhart be transmitted 
      to the Library of Congress and made available to the public.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             June 29, 1993

Mrs. Mink introduced the following bill; which was referred jointly to 
    the Committees on Government Operations and House Administration

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                                 A BILL


 
To require that all Government records that contain information bearing 
 on the last flight and disappearance of Amelia Earhart be transmitted 
      to the Library of Congress and made available to the public.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. DEFINITIONS.

    In this Act, ``Executive agency'' has the meaning stated in section 
105 of title 5, United States Code.

SEC. 2. IDENTIFICATION AND TRANSMITTAL OF RECORDS.

    By not later than the date that is ninety days after the date of 
enactment of this Act, the head of each Executive agency shall--
            (1) conduct a search of all records in the control of the 
        agency to identify each record that contains information that 
        is relevant to--
                    (A) the last flight of Amelia Earhart;
                    (B) the mechanical, navigational, meteorological, 
                or other problems that caused the end of that flight; 
                and
                    (C) the whereabouts of Amelia Earhart and her 
                navigator, Fred Noonan, and their airplane, following 
                their disappearance;
            (2) declassify any such relevant records that have been 
        classified as Government secrets; and
            (3) transmit all such relevant records to the Librarian of 
        Congress.

SEC. 3. PUBLIC AVAILABILITY OF RECORDS.

    By not later than the date that is one hundred and eighty days 
after the date of enactment of this Act, the Librarian of Congress 
shall create an index of records transmitted to the Librarian under 
section 2 and make the index and records available to the public.

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