[Congressional Bills 111th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1713 Introduced in House (IH)]

111th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1713

   To name the South Central Agricultural Research Laboratory of the 
 Department of Agriculture in Lane, Oklahoma, and the facility of the 
   United States Postal Service located at 310 North Perry Street in 
  Bennington, Oklahoma, in honor of former Congressman Wesley ``Wes'' 
                                Watkins.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 25, 2009

  Mr. Boren (for himself, Mr. Cole, Ms. Fallin, Mr. Sullivan, and Mr. 
    Lucas) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committee on Oversight 
 and Government Reform, 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 name the South Central Agricultural Research Laboratory of the 
 Department of Agriculture in Lane, Oklahoma, and the facility of the 
   United States Postal Service located at 310 North Perry Street in 
  Bennington, Oklahoma, in honor of former Congressman Wesley ``Wes'' 
                                Watkins.

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

SECTION 1. REDESIGNATION OF SOUTH CENTRAL AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH 
              LABORATORY, LANE, OKLAHOMA.

    (a) Redesignation.--The South Central Agricultural Research 
Laboratory of the Department of Agriculture in Lane, Oklahoma, shall be 
known and redesignated as the ``Wes Watkins Agricultural Research 
Laboratory''.
    (b) References.--Any reference in a law, map, regulation, document, 
paper, or other record of the United States to the South Central 
Agricultural Research Laboratory shall be deemed to be a reference to 
the ``Wes Watkins Agricultural Research Laboratory''.

SEC. 2. DESIGNATION OF WES WATKINS POST OFFICE, BENNINGTON, OKLAHOMA.

    (a) Designation.--The facility of the United States Postal Service 
located at 310 North Perry Street in Bennington, Oklahoma, shall be 
known and designated as the ``Wes Watkins Post Office''.
    (b) References.--Any reference in a law, map, regulation, document, 
paper, or other record of the United States to the facility referred to 
in subsection (a) shall be deemed to be a reference to the ``Wes 
Watkins Post Office''.
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