[Congressional Record Volume 147, Number 64 (Thursday, May 10, 2001)]
[Senate]
[Pages S4821-S4822]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                         MESSAGE FROM THE HOUSE

  At 12:55 p.m., a message from the House of Representatives, delivered 
by Ms. Niland, one of its reading clerks, announced that the House has 
passed the following bills, without amendment:


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       S. 700. An act to establish a Federal interagency task 
     force for the purpose of coordinating actions to prevent the 
     outbreak of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (commonly knows 
     as ``mad cow disease'') and foot-and-mouth disease in the 
     United States.

  The message also announced that the House has passed the following 
bills, in which it requests the concurrence of the Senate:

       H.R. 146. An act to authorize the Secretary of the Interior 
     to study the suitability and feasibility of designating the 
     Great Falls Historic District in Paterson, New Jersey, as a 
     unit of the National Park System, and for other purposes.
       H.R. 581. An act to authorize the Secretary of the Interior 
     and the Secretary of Agriculture to use funds appropriated 
     for wildland fire management in the Department of the 
     Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2001, to 
     reimburse the United States Fish and Wildlife Service and the 
     National Marine Fisheries Service to facilitate the 
     interagency cooperation required under the Endangered Species 
     Act of 1973 in connection with wildland fire management.

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