[Congressional Bills 104th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2150 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







104th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 2150

  To prohibit extension or establishment of any national monument on 
  public land without full compliance with the National Environmental 
   Policy Act and the Endangered Species Act, and an express Act of 
                   Congress, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           September 27, 1996

  Mr. Murkowski (for himself, Mr. Craig, Mr. Hatch, Mr. Bennett, Mr. 
   Campbell, Mr. Burns, Mr. Nickles, and Mr. Stevens) 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 prohibit extension or establishment of any national monument on 
  public land without full compliance with the National Environmental 
   Policy Act and the Endangered Species Act, and an express Act of 
                   Congress, 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 ``Public Lands Protection Act of 
1996''.

SEC. 2. LIMITATION ON EXTENSION OR ESTABLISHMENT OF NATIONAL MONUMENTS.

    The Act entitled ``An Act for the preservation of American 
antiquities'', approved June 8, 1906 (16 U.S.C. 431 et seq.), is 
amended by adding at the end the following:

``SEC. 5. LIMITATION ON EXTENSION OR ESTABLISHMENT OF NATIONAL 
              MONUMENTS.

    ``Notwithstanding section 2, no extension or establishment of a 
national monument may be undertaken on public land after the date of 
enactment of this section without full compliance with the National 
Environmental Policy Act and the Endangered Species Act, and an express 
Act of Congress.''.
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