[Congressional Record Volume 156, Number 118 (Thursday, August 5, 2010)]
[Senate]
[Pages S6978-S6979]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
REDESIGNATING THE NORTH MISSISSIPPI NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGES COMPLEX
Mr. REID. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Senate
proceed to the consideration of Calendar No. 519.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will state the bill by title.
The assistant legislative clerk read as follows:
A bill (S. 3354) to redesignate the North Mississippi
National Wild Life Refuges Complex as the Sam D. Hamilton
North Mississippi National Wildlife Refuges Complex.
There being no objection, the Senate proceeded to consider the bill.
Mr. REID. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the bill be
read the third time and passed, the motion to reconsider be laid upon
the table, with no intervening action or debate, and that any
statements relating to the measure be printed in the Record.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
The bill (S. 3354) was ordered to be engrossed for a third reading,
was read the third time and passed, as follows:
S. 3354
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of
the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. REDESIGNATION OF THE NORTH MISSISSIPPI NATIONAL
WILDLIFE REFUGES COMPLEX.
(a) In General.--The North Mississippi National Wildlife
Refuges Complex, located in
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the State of Mississippi and consisting of the Dahomey
National Wildlife Refuge, the Tallahatchie National Wildlife
Refuge, the Coldwater National Wildlife Refuge, and the Bear
Lake Unit, is redesignated as the ``Sam D. Hamilton North
Mississippi National Wildlife Refuges Complex.''
(b) Boundary Revision.--Nothing in this Act prevents the
Secretary of the Interior from making adjustments to the
boundaries of the Sam D. Hamilton North Mississippi National
Wildlife Refuges Complex (referred to in this section as the
``Refuges Complex''), as the Secretary determines to be
appropriate, to carry out the mission of the National
Wildlife Refuge System in accordance with the National
Wildlife Refuge System Administration Act of 1966 (16 U.S.C.
668dd et seq.) and any other applicable authority.
(c) Addition of Land.--Nothing in this Act prevents the
Secretary of the Interior from adding to the Refuges Complex
new land or parcels of the National Wildlife Refuge System,
as the Secretary determines to be appropriate, to carry out
the mission of the National Wildlife Refuge System in
accordance with the National Wildlife Refuge System
Administration Act of 1966 (16 U.S.C. 668dd et seq.) and any
other applicable authority.
(d) References.--Any reference in any statute, rule,
regulation, executive order, publication, map, paper, or
other document of the United States to the North Mississippi
National Wildlife Refuges Complex is deemed to refer to the
Sam D. Hamilton North Mississippi National Wildlife Refuges
Complex.
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