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[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.