[Congressional Record Volume 145, Number 95 (Wednesday, June 30, 1999)]
[Senate]
[Page S7950]
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               SEWAGE TREATMENT FACILITY--SISTERS, OREGON

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                        SMITH AMENDMENT NO. 1126

  (Ordered to lie on the table.)
  Mr. SMITH of Oregon submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by 
him to the bill (S. 416) to direct the Secretary of Agriculture to 
convey to the city of Sisters, Oregon, a certain parcel of land for use 
in connection with a sewage treatment facility; as follows:

       On page 3, line 12, strike the quotation marks.
       On page 3, line 14, strike ``the following''.
       At the end, add the following:
       ``(e) Authority To Acquire Land in Substitution.--Subject 
     to the availability of appropriations, the Secretary shall 
     acquire land within Oregon, and within or in the vicinity of 
     the Deschutes National Forest, of an acreage equivalent to 
     that of the land conveyed under subsection (a). Any lands 
     acquired shall be added to and administered as part of the 
     Deschutes National Forest.''

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