[Congressional Bills 109th Congress]
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[S. 2250 Enrolled Bill (ENR)]

        S.2250

                       One Hundred Ninth Congress

                                 of the

                        United States of America


                          AT THE SECOND SESSION

          Begun and held at the City of Washington on Tuesday,
             the third day of January, two thousand and six


                                 An Act



      To award a congressional gold medal to Dr. Norman E. Borlaug.

    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 ``Congressional Tribute to Dr. Norman 
E. Borlaug Act of 2006''.

SEC. 2. FINDINGS.

    Congress finds as follows:
        (1) Dr. Norman E. Borlaug, was born in Iowa where he grew up on 
    a family farm, and received his primary and secondary education.
        (2) Dr. Borlaug attended the University of Minnesota where he 
    received his B.A. and Ph.D. degrees and was also a star NCAA 
    wrestler.
        (3) For the past 20 years, Dr. Borlaug has lived in Texas where 
    he is a member of the faculty of Texas A&M University.
        (4) Dr. Borlaug also serves as President of the Sasakawa Africa 
    Association.
        (5) Dr. Borlaug's accomplishments in terms of bringing radical 
    change to world agriculture and uplifting humanity are without 
    parallel.
        (6) In the immediate aftermath of World War II, Dr. Borlaug 
    spent 20 years working in the poorest areas of rural Mexico. It was 
    there that Dr. Borlaug made his breakthrough achievement in 
    developing a strand of wheat that could exponentially increase 
    yields while actively resisting disease.
        (7) With the active support of the governments involved, Dr. 
    Borlaug's ``green revolution'' uplifted hundreds of thousands of 
    the rural poor in Mexico and saved hundreds of millions from famine 
    and outright starvation in India and Pakistan.
        (8) Dr. Borlaug's approach to wheat production next spread 
    throughout the Middle East. Soon thereafter his approach was 
    adapted to rice growing, increasing the number of lives Dr. Borlaug 
    has saved to more than a billion people.
        (9) In 1970, Dr. Borlaug received the Nobel Prize, the only 
    person working in agriculture to ever be so honored. Since then he 
    has received numerous honors and awards including the Presidential 
    Medal of Freedom, the Public Service Medal, the National Academy of 
    Sciences' highest honor, and the Rotary International Award for 
    World Understanding and Peace.
        (10) At age 91, Dr. Borlaug continues to work to alleviate 
    poverty and malnutrition. He currently serves as president of 
    Sasakawa Global 2000 Africa Project, which seeks to extend the 
    benefits of agricultural development to the 800,000,000 people 
    still mired in poverty and malnutrition in sub-Saharan Africa.
        (11) Dr. Borlaug continues to serve as Chairman of the Council 
    of Advisors of the World Food Prize, an organization he created in 
    1986 to be the ``Nobel Prize for Food and Agriculture'' and which 
    presents a $250,000 prize each October at a Ceremony in Des Moines, 
    Iowa, to the Laureate who has made an exceptional achievement 
    similar to Dr. Borlaug's breakthrough 40 years ago. In the almost 
    20 years of its existence, the World Food Prize has honored 
    Laureates from Bangladesh, India, China, Mexico, Denmark, Sierra 
    Leone, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
        (12) Dr. Borlaug has saved more lives than any other person who 
    has ever lived, and likely has saved more lives in the Islamic 
    world than any other human being in history.
        (13) Due to a lifetime of work that has led to the saving and 
    preservation of an untold amount of lives, Dr. Norman E. Borlaug is 
    deserving of America's highest civilian award: the congressional 
    gold medal.

SEC. 3. CONGRESSIONAL GOLD MEDAL.

    (a) Presentation Authorized.--The President Pro Tempore of the 
Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives are authorized 
to make appropriate arrangements for the presentation, on behalf of 
Congress, of a gold medal of appropriate design, to Dr. Norman E. 
Borlaug, in recognition of his enduring contributions to the United 
States and the world.
    (b) Design and Striking.--For the purpose of the presentation 
referred to in subsection (a), the Secretary of the Treasury (in this 
Act referred to as the ``Secretary'') shall strike a gold medal with 
suitable emblems, devices, and inscriptions, to be determined by the 
Secretary.

SEC. 4. DUPLICATE MEDALS.

    Under such regulations as the Secretary may prescribe, the 
Secretary may strike and sell duplicates in bronze of the gold medal 
struck under section 3 at a price sufficient to cover the cost thereof, 
including labor, materials, dies, use of machinery, and overhead 
expenses, and the cost of the gold medal.

SEC. 5. STATUS AS NATIONAL MEDALS.

    (a) National Medal.--The medal struck under this Act is a national 
medal for purposes of chapter 51 of title 31, United States Code.
    (b) Numismatic Items.--For purposes of section 5134 of title 31, 
United States Code, all duplicate medals struck under this Act shall be 
considered to be numismatic items.

SEC. 6. AUTHORITY TO USE FUND AMOUNTS; PROCEEDS OF SALE.

    (a) Authority To Use Fund Amounts.--There are authorized to be 
charged against the United States Mint Public Enterprise Fund, such 
sums as may be necessary to pay for the cost of the medals struck under 
this Act.
    (b) Proceeds of Sale.--Amounts received from the sale of duplicate 
bronze medals under section 4 shall be deposited in the United States 
Mint Public Enterprise Fund.

                               Speaker of the House of Representatives.

                            Vice President of the United States and    
                                               President of the Senate.