[Congressional Bills 112th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 925 Enrolled Bill (ENR)]
S.925
One Hundred Twelfth 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 twelve
An Act
To designate Mt. Andrea Lawrence.
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 ``Mt. Andrea Lawrence Designation Act
of 2011''.
SEC. 2. FINDINGS.
Congress finds that Andrea Mead Lawrence--
(1) was born in Rutland County, Vermont, on April 19, 1932,
where she developed a life-long love of winter sports and
appreciation for the environment;
(2) competed in the 1948 Winter Olympics in St. Moritz,
Switzerland, and the 1956 Winter Olympics in Cortina d'Ampezzo,
Italy, and was the torch lighter at the 1960 Winter Olympics in
Squaw Valley, California;
(3) won 2 Gold Medals in the Olympic special and giant slalom
races at the 1952 Winter Olympics in Oslo, Norway, and remains the
only United States double-gold medalist in alpine skiing;
(4) was inducted into the U.S. National Ski Hall of Fame in
1958 at the age of 25;
(5) moved in 1968 to Mammoth Lakes in the spectacularly
beautiful Eastern Sierra of California, a place that she fought to
protect for the rest of her life;
(6) founded the Friends of Mammoth to maintain the beauty and
serenity of Mammoth Lakes and the Eastern Sierra;
(7) served for 16 years on the Mono County Board of
Supervisors, where she worked tirelessly to protect and restore
Mono Lake, Bodie State Historic Park, and other important natural
and cultural landscapes of the Eastern Sierra;
(8) worked, as a member of the Great Basin Air Pollution
Control District, to reduce air pollution that had been caused by
the dewatering of Owens Lake;
(9) founded the Andrea Lawrence Institute for Mountains and
Rivers in 2003 to work for environmental protection and economic
vitality in the region she loved so much;
(10) testified in 2008 before the Mono County Board of
Supervisors in favor of the Eastern Sierra and Northern San Gabriel
Wild Heritage Act, a bill that was enacted the day before she died;
(11) passed away on March 31, 2009, at 76 years of age, leaving
5 children, Cortlandt, Matthew, Deirdre, Leslie, and Quentin, and 4
grandchildren; and
(12) leaves a rich legacy that will continue to benefit present
and future generations.
SEC. 3. DESIGNATION OF MT. ANDREA LAWRENCE.
(a) In General.--Peak 12,240 (which is located 0.6 miles northeast
of Donahue Peak on the northern border of the Ansel Adams Wilderness
and Yosemite National Park (UTM coordinates Zone 11, 304428 E, 4183631
N)) shall be known and designated as ``Mt. Andrea Lawrence''.
(b) References.--Any reference in a law, map, regulation, document,
record, or other paper of the United States to the peak described in
subsection (a) shall be considered to be a reference to ``Mt. Andrea
Lawrence''.
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
Vice President of the United States and
President of the Senate.