[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 146 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 146

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 SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

             January 21 (legislative day, January 5), 1993

  Mr. Inouye introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
           referred to the Committee on Governmental Affairs

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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 90 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 180 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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