[Congressional Record Volume 147, Number 136 (Thursday, October 11, 2001)]
[House]
[Page H6702]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                            PETITIONS, ETC.

  Under clause 3 of rule XII, petitions and papers were laid on the 
clerk's desk and referred as follows:

       33. The SPEAKER presented a petition of the Slidell City 
     Council, Louisiana, relative to Resolution No. R01-21 
     petitioning the United States Congress to carefully consider 
     any changes to the National Flood Insurance Program 
     administered by the Federal Emergency Management Agency; to 
     the Committee on Financial Services.
       34. Also, a petition of the Legislature of Rockland County, 
     New York, relative to Resolution No. 472 petitioning the 
     United States Congress to oppose the granting of any 
     discretionary economic benefit by the United States, New York 
     State or Rockland County governments or public benefit 
     corporations in an attempt to locate the siting of power 
     plants in the Torne Valley in Rockland County; to the 
     Committee on Energy and Commerce.
       35. Also, a petition of the Legislature of Rockland County, 
     New York, relative to Resolution No. 472 petitioning the 
     United States Congress to request the New York State 
     Legislature to amend Title X of the Public Service Law to 
     require that no electrical generating facility other than 
     hydroelectric shall be placed within one-half mile of a 
     primary sole source aquifer or one-half mile from any 
     abutting highly permeable soils as determined by the New York 
     State Department of Environmental Conservation without the 
     prior consent of the Governor of the State of New York after 
     a finding by the Governor of an extrordinary need for said 
     facility; to the Committee on Energy and Commerce.
       36. Also, a petition of the City of Lauderdale Lakes 
     Commission, Florida, relative to Resolution No. 01-232 
     petitioning the United States Congress that the Commission 
     expresses confidence in the Nation, its citizens, the 
     President of the United States, the Congress and the 
     Administration, and encourages all Americans to join together 
     and rededicate themselves to the Nation's underlying 
     principles of the capitalist democracy established in the 
     Constitution of the United States of America; to the 
     Committee on the Judiciary.
       37. Also, a petition of Forty-Three State Legislators, 
     Minnesota, relative to a letter expressing profound sympathy 
     to the citizens of New York City and Washington, DC; pledging 
     unwavering support to the President and Congress; and 
     expressing hope that the President and Congress will act 
     decisively to counteract this terrorism; jointly to the 
     Committees on the Judiciary and International Relations.

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