[Congressional Bills 113th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 473 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

113th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 473

To ensure that Federal Register notices submitted to the Bureau of Land 
              Management are reviewed in a timely manner.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             March 6, 2013

  Mr. Heller introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
       referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
To ensure that Federal Register notices submitted to the Bureau of Land 
              Management are reviewed in a timely manner.

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

SECTION 1. REVIEW OF CERTAIN FEDERAL REGISTER NOTICES.

    If, by the date that is 45 days after the date on which a State 
Bureau of Land Management office has submitted a Federal Register 
notice to the Washington, DC, office of the Bureau of Land Management 
for Department of the Interior review, the review has not been 
completed--
            (1) the notice shall consider to be approved; and
            (2) the State Bureau of Land Management office shall 
        immediately forward the notice to the Federal Register for 
        publication.
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