[Congressional Bills 104th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 689 Introduced in House (IH)]







104th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 689

 To require the Secretary of Agriculture to take action to control the 
  infestation of southern pine beetles currently ravaging wilderness 
                      areas in the State of Texas.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 25, 1995

  Mr. Wilson introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
     Committee on Resources and, in addition, to the Committee on 
Agriculture, 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 require the Secretary of Agriculture to take action to control the 
  infestation of southern pine beetles currently ravaging wilderness 
                      areas in the State of Texas.

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

SECTION 1. CONTROL OF THE SOUTHERN PINE BEETLE IN WILDERNESS AREAS IN 
              TEXAS.

    Notwithstanding section 4(c) of the Wilderness Act (16 U.S.C. 
1133(c)) and section 4(a) of the Texas Wilderness Act of 1984 (Public 
Law 98-574; 98 Stat. 3051), the Secretary of Agriculture shall 
undertake active measures--
            (1) to control the infestation of the southern pine beetle 
        in the five wilderness areas in the State of Texas designated 
        in section 2 of the Texas Wilderness Act of 1984; and
            (2) to prevent the spread of the southern pine beetle from 
        such wilderness areas to adjacent private forest lands.
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