[Congressional Bills 108th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2191 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







 108th CONGRESS
   2d Session
                                S. 2191

  To provide the venue for the judicial review of actions by certain 
                           Federal agencies.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             March 10, 2004

  Mr. Thomas introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
               referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
  To provide the venue for the judicial review of actions by certain 
                           Federal agencies.

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

SECTION 1. VENUE FOR JUDICIAL REVIEW OF ACTIONS BY CERTAIN FEDERAL 
              AGENCIES.

    Section 1402 of title 28, United States Code, is amended by adding 
at the end the following:
    ``(e) Judicial Review of Final Agency Actions by the Bureau of Land 
Management, United States Fish and Wildlife Service, National Park 
Service, and Forest Service.--Any civil action seeking judicial review 
under chapter 7 of title 5 of a final agency action by the Secretary of 
the Interior, acting through the Director of the Bureau of Land 
Management, the Director of the United States Fish and Wildlife 
Service, or the Director of the National Park Service, or the Secretary 
of Agriculture, acting through the Chief of the Forest Service, 
relating to the use of land administered by the Secretary, shall be 
brought only--
            ``(1) in the United States district court for the district 
        in which the land is located; or
            ``(2) if the land is located in more than 1 district, in 
        any of the districts in which the land is located.''.
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