[Congressional Bills 112th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4161 Introduced in House (IH)]

112th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 4161

   To amend title 39, United States Code, to provide that the United 
States Postal Service may not close or consolidate any postal facility 
 located in a ZIP code with a high rate of population growth, and for 
                            other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 7, 2012

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

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                                 A BILL


 
   To amend title 39, United States Code, to provide that the United 
States Postal Service may not close or consolidate any postal facility 
 located in a ZIP code with a high rate of population growth, 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 ``Defending Quality Postal Delivery 
for the Future Act''.

SEC. 2. CLOSURE OR CONSOLIDATION OF POSTAL FACILITIES IN ZIP CODES WITH 
              HIGH POPULATION GROWTH.

    Section 404 of title 39, United States Code, is amended by adding 
at the end the following:
    ``(f)(1) Notwithstanding any other provision of this title, the 
Postal Service may not close or consolidate any post office or other 
postal facility that is located in a ZIP code that has a high rate of 
population growth.
    ``(2)(A) Not later than 30 days after the date of enactment of this 
subsection, and not later than 60 days after the end of each year 
thereafter, the Postmaster General shall determine, in consultation 
with the Secretary of Commerce, whether a ZIP code has a high rate of 
population growth for purposes of paragraph (1).
    ``(B) In making the annual determination required under 
subparagraph (A), the Postmaster General shall, using population data 
available from the Bureau of the Census, compare the population of a 
ZIP code at the end of such year with the population of such ZIP code 
at the beginning of such year.''.
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