[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 98 (Thursday, June 15, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H6022]
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 DESIGNATING TRINITY DAM IN THE CENTRAL VALLEY PROJECT, CA, AS TRINITY 
                                  LAKE

  Mr. DOOLITTLE. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent for the immediate 
consideration in the House of the bill (H.R. 1070) to designate the 
reservoir created by Trinity Dam in the Central Valley project, 
California, as ``Trinity Lake.''
  The Clerk read the title of the bill.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there objection to the request of the 
gentleman from California?
  Mr. DeFAZIO. Mr. Speaker, reserving the right to object, I yield to 
the gentleman from California [Mr. Doolittle] to enable him to explain 
the legislation. We are particularly curious about whether or not Clair 
Engle was a Democrat and what the underlying reasons are for this 
change.
  Mr. DOOLITTLE. Mr. Speaker, he was a Democrat, and he was considered 
a water expert in his time, and for that reason this reservoir which 
the bill seeks to change the name of was named for him. This bill would 
designate the reservoir created by Trinity Dam in the Central Valley 
Project in California as Trinity Lake.
  Under the provisions of current law the reservoir is currently 
designated as Clair Engle Lake and, therefore, requires legislation in 
order for the name to be changed. The problem here is that in the local 
area everybody refers to this as Trinity Lake except the technical name 
that appears in the maps is Lake Clair Engle. It casts a lot of 
confusion, and for that reason the Trinity board of supervisors 
unanimously passed a resolution in support of changing the name.
  In our report accompanying this bill we have asked the bureau to 
consider an appropriate visitor center that they could name in honor of 
Clair Engle, who was once chairman of the House Interior Committee and 
then subsequently became our U.S. Senator from California; we think 
that would be appropriate, and I would ask that the bill be supported.
  Mr. DeFAZIO. Further under my reserved right to object, Mr. Speaker, 
I find the gentleman's arguments convincing. I do not detect a partisan 
bias here. I think the naming of a visitor center or other appropriate 
memorial would be well taken, and I have swum in the lake myself and 
had no idea of the name of it. I was told I was swimming in Trinity 
Lake.
  Mr. Speaker, I withdraw my reservation of objection.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there objection to the request of the 
gentleman from California?
  There was no objection.
  The Clerk read the bill, as follows:

                               H.R. 1070

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

     SECTION 1. DESIGNATION OF TRINITY LAKE.

       (a) Designation.--The reservoir created by Trinity Dam in 
     the Central Valley project, California, and designated as 
     ``Clair Engle Lake'' by Public Law 88-662 (78 Stat. 1093) is 
     hereby redesignated as ``Trinity Lake''.
       (b) References.--Any reference in any law, regulation, 
     document, record, map, or other paper of the United States to 
     the reservoir referred to in subsection (a) shall be 
     considered to be a reference to ``Trinity Lake''.
       (c) Conforming Amendment.--Public Law 88-662 (78 Stat. 
     1093) is repealed.

  The bill was ordered to be engrossed and read a third time, was read 
the third time, and passed, and a motion to reconsider was laid on the 
table.

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