[Congressional Bills 112th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3370 Introduced in House (IH)]

112th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3370

To provide that the United States Postal Service may not close any post 
    office that does not have another post office within 8 miles as 
measured by public roads with regular year-round access, and for other 
                               purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            November 4, 2011

 Mr. Crawford introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
              Committee on Oversight and Government Reform

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                                 A BILL


 
To provide that the United States Postal Service may not close any post 
    office that does not have another post office within 8 miles as 
measured by public roads with regular year-round access, 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 ``Protecting Our Rural Post Offices 
Act of 2011''.

SEC. 2. LIMITATION ON CLOSING OF POST OFFICES.

    Section 404(d) of title 39, United States Code, is amended by 
adding at the end the following:
            ``(7) Notwithstanding any other provision of this 
        subsection, in making a determination under subsection (a)(3) 
        as to the necessity for the closing or consolidation of a post 
        office, the Postal Service may not close any post office that 
        does not have another post office within 8 miles as measured by 
        public roads with regular year-round access.''.
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