[Congressional Record Volume 156, Number 24 (Wednesday, February 24, 2010)]
[Senate]
[Page S752]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                 NOTICE OF INTENT TO SUSPEND THE RULES

  Mr. DeMINT. Mr. President, I submit the following notice in writing: 
In accordance with Rule V of the Standing Rules of the Senate, I hereby 
give notice in writing that it is my intention to move to suspend Rule 
XXII, Paragraph 2, for the purpose of proposing and considering the 
following amendment to H.R. 1299, including germaneness requirements:

       At the appropriate place, insert the following:

     SEC. __. PROHIBITION ON EXTENSION OR ESTABLISHMENT OF 
                   NATIONAL MONUMENTS IN CERTAIN AREAS.

       (a) In General.--Notwithstanding the Act of June 8, 1906 
     (commonly known as the ``Antiquities Act of 1906'') (16 
     U.S.C. 431 et seq.), or any other provision of law, no 
     further extension or establishment of national monuments in 
     areas described in subsection (b) may be undertaken.
       (b) Applicable Areas.--Subsection (a) shall apply to--
       (1) the Northwest Sonoran Desert, Arizona;
       (2) the Berryessa Snow Mountains, California;
       (3) the Bodie Hills, California;
       (4) the expansion of the Cascade-Siskiyou National 
     Monument, California;
       (5) the Modoc Plateau, California;
       (6) the Vermillion Basin, Colorado;
       (7) the Northern Montana Prairie, Montana;
       (8) the Heart of the Great Basin, Nevada;
       (9) the Lesser Prairie Chicken Preserve, New Mexico;
       (10) the Otero Mesa, New Mexico;
       (11) the Owyhee Desert, Oregon and Nevada;
       (12) the Cedar Mesa region, Utah;
       (13) the San Rafael Swell, Utah; and
       (14) the San Juan Islands, Washington.

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