[Congressional Bills 109th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2033 Introduced in Senate (IS)]








109th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 2033

 To amend the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act to designate segments of the 
 Taunton River in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts as a component of 
              the National Wild and Scenic Rivers System.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           November 17, 2005

Mr. Kennedy (for himself and Mr. Kerry) 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 designate segments of the 
 Taunton River in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts as a component of 
              the National Wild and Scenic Rivers System.

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

SECTION 1. TAUNTON RIVER, MASSACHUSETTS.

    Section 3(a) of the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act (16 U.S.C. 1274(a)) 
is amended--
            (1) by designating the undesignated paragraph relating to 
        the White Salmon River as paragraph (167); and
            (2) by adding at the end the following:
            ``(168) Taunton river, massachusetts.--The segment 
        downstream from the headwaters of the Taunton River, from the 
        confluence of the Town River and the Matfield River in 
        Bridgewater to the Mount Hope Bay in the city of Fall River, 
        Massachusetts.''.
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