[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 592 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 592

  To amend the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act to protect State-designated 
 rivers prior to their approval or disapproval by the Secretary of the 
 Interior for inclusion in the National Wild and Scenic Rivers System, 
                        and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

               March 16 (legislative day, March 3), 1993

   Mr. Boren introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
       referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
  To amend the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act to protect State-designated 
 rivers prior to their approval or disapproval by the Secretary of the 
 Interior for inclusion in the National Wild and Scenic Rivers System, 
                        and for other purposes.

    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 ``State-Designated Wild and Scenic 
Rivers Protection Act''.

SEC. 2. PROTECTION OF STATE-DESIGNATED RIVERS.

    (a) In General.--Section 2(a) of the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act (16 
U.S.C. 1273(a)) is amended by inserting after the second sentence the 
following new sentence: ``Beginning on the date of receipt of an 
application by the Secretary under clause (ii) and until the earlier of 
the date of the approval or disapproval by the Secretary of the 
application or the date that is 3 years after the date of receipt of 
the application, the river that is the subject of the application shall 
be protected as if the river were included in the system.''.
    (b) Transition Provision.--A river for which an application under 
section 2(a)(ii) of the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act (16 U.S.C. 
1273(a)(ii)) is pending with the Secretary of the Interior on the date 
of enactment of this Act shall be protected as described in the third 
sentence of section 2(a) of such Act (as added by subsection (a)), 
except that the protection shall begin on the date of receipt of the 
application and continue until the earlier of the date of the approval 
or disapproval by the Secretary of the Interior of the application or 
the date that is 3 years after the date of enactment of this Act.

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