[Congressional Record Volume 150, Number 81 (Monday, June 14, 2004)]
[Senate]
[Page S6745]
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                 SMITHSONIAN ASTROPHYSICAL OBSERVATORY

  Mr. WARNER. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Rules 
Committee be discharged from further consideration of S. 2362 and the 
Senate proceed to its immediate consideration.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  The clerk will report the bill by title.
  The legislative clerk read as follows:

       A bill (S. 2362) to authorize construction of the 
     Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory instrumentation support 
     control building and associated site development on Kitt 
     Peak, Arizona, and for other purposes.

  There being no objection, the Senate proceeded to consider the bill.
  Mr. WARNER. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the bill be 
read a third time and passed, the motion to reconsider be laid upon the 
table, and any statements in relation to the bill be printed in the 
Record.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  The bill (S. 2362) was read the third time and passed, as follows:

                                S. 2362

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

     SECTION 1. SMITHSONIAN ASTROPHYSICAL OBSERVATORY 
                   INSTRUMENTATION SUPPORT FACILITY.

       The Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution is 
     authorized to develop the site for a Smithsonian 
     Astrophysical Observatory instrumentation support control 
     building, including the installation of necessary utilities 
     and equipment housings, and to construct such building on the 
     site, for the purpose of supporting the collaborative Very 
     Energetic Radiation Imaging Telescope Array System (VERITAS) 
     project on Kitt Peak near Tucson, Arizona.

     SEC. 2. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.

       There are authorized to be appropriated to carry out this 
     Act $1,000,000 for fiscal year 2005.

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