[Congressional Bills 104th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2951 Introduced in House (IH)]

  2d Session
                                H. R. 2951

  To protect United States taxpayers by preventing the use of Federal 
   funds for construction of a dam on the American River at Auburn, 
                              California.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            February 1, 1996

  Mr. Petri introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
      Committee on Resources, and in addition to the Committee on 
  Transportation and Infrastructure, for a period to be subsequently 
   determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such 
 provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned

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                                 A BILL


 
  To protect United States taxpayers by preventing the use of Federal 
   funds for construction of a dam on the American River at Auburn, 
                              California.

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

SECTION 1. FINDINGS.

    Congress finds that--
            (1) the construction of a dam on the North Fork of the 
        American River at Auburn, California was rejected by Congress 
        on September 23, 1993, when a bipartisan majority of the House 
        of Representatives voted 273-140 to delete a proposed 
        authorization for Federal appropriations for such construction; 
        and
            (2) the Federal funding share for such construction would 
        cost Federal taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars--a 
        Federal expenditure that is not affordable or justifiable.

SEC. 2. PROHIBITION ON FEDERAL FUNDING.

    (a) Prohibition on Use.--No funds appropriated to or made available 
to the Secretary of the Army or the Secretary of the Interior before, 
on, or after the date of the enactment of this Act may be obligated or 
expended to construct a dam on the North Fork of the American River at 
Auburn, California.
    (b) Prohibition of Appropriations.--No funds may be appropriated or 
made available for construction of a dam on the North Fork of the 
American River at Auburn, California.
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