[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4349 Introduced in House (IH)]

103d CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 4349

 To prohibit the Department of Defense from conducting flight tests of 
 certain missiles that would result in the release of debris outside a 
              designated Department of Defense test range.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 4, 1994

 Ms. Shepherd (for herself, Mrs. Schroeder, Mr. Kopetski, Mr. Hinchey, 
 Mr. Oberstar, Mr. Coppersmith, Ms. Furse, and Ms. English of Arizona) 
 introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
                             Armed Services

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                                 A BILL


 
 To prohibit the Department of Defense from conducting flight tests of 
 certain missiles that would result in the release of debris outside a 
              designated Department of Defense test range.

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

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Theater Missile Defense Act of 
1994''.

SEC. 2. LIMITATION ON FLIGHT TESTS OF CERTAIN MISSILES.

    (a) Limitation.--The Secretary of Defense may not conduct a flight 
test program of theater missile defense interceptors and sensors if an 
anticipated result of the launch of a missile under that test program 
would be release of debris in a land area of the United States outside 
a designated Department of Defense test range.
    (b) Definition of Debris.--For purposes of subsection (a), the term 
``debris'' does not include particulate matter that is regulated for 
considerations of air quality.

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