[Congressional Record Volume 157, Number 156 (Tuesday, October 18, 2011)]
[Senate]
[Page S6692]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




              MT. ANDREA LAWRENCE DESIGNATION ACT OF 2011

  The bill (S. 925) to designate Mt. Andrea Lawrence was ordered to be 
engrossed for a third reading, was read the third time, and passed, as 
follows:

                                 S. 925

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

     SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

       This Act may be cited as the ``Mt. Andrea Lawrence 
     Designation Act of 2011''.

     SEC. 2. FINDINGS.

       Congress finds that Andrea Mead Lawrence--
       (1) was born in Rutland County, Vermont, on April 19, 1932, 
     where she developed a life-long love of winter sports and 
     appreciation for the environment;
       (2) competed in the 1948 Winter Olympics in St. Moritz, 
     Switzerland, and the 1956 Winter Olympics in Cortina 
     d'Ampezzo, Italy, and was the torch lighter at the 1960 
     Winter Olympics in Squaw Valley, California;
       (3) won 2 Gold Medals in the Olympic special and giant 
     slalom races at the 1952 Winter Olympics in Oslo, Norway, and 
     remains the only United States double-gold medalist in alpine 
     skiing;
       (4) was inducted into the U.S. National Ski Hall of Fame in 
     1958 at the age of 25;
       (5) moved in 1968 to Mammoth Lakes in the spectacularly 
     beautiful Eastern Sierra of California, a place that she 
     fought to protect for the rest of her life;
       (6) founded the Friends of Mammoth to maintain the beauty 
     and serenity of Mammoth Lakes and the Eastern Sierra;
       (7) served for 16 years on the Mono County Board of 
     Supervisors, where she worked tirelessly to protect and 
     restore Mono Lake, Bodie State Historic Park, and other 
     important natural and cultural landscapes of the Eastern 
     Sierra;
       (8) worked, as a member of the Great Basin Air Pollution 
     Control District, to reduce air pollution that had been 
     caused by the dewatering of Owens Lake;
       (9) founded the Andrea Lawrence Institute for Mountains and 
     Rivers in 2003 to work for environmental protection and 
     economic vitality in the region she loved so much;
       (10) testified in 2008 before the Mono County Board of 
     Supervisors in favor of the Eastern Sierra and Northern San 
     Gabriel Wild Heritage Act, a bill that was enacted the day 
     before she died;
       (11) passed away on March 31, 2009, at 76 years of age, 
     leaving 5 children, Cortlandt, Matthew, Deirdre, Leslie, and 
     Quentin, and 4 grandchildren; and
       (12) leaves a rich legacy that will continue to benefit 
     present and future generations.

     SEC. 3. DESIGNATION OF MT. ANDREA LAWRENCE.

       (a) In General.--Peak 12,240 (which is located 0.6 miles 
     northeast of Donahue Peak on the northern border of the Ansel 
     Adams Wilderness and Yosemite National Park (UTM coordinates 
     Zone 11, 304428 E, 4183631 N)) shall be known and designated 
     as ``Mt. Andrea Lawrence''.
       (b) References.--Any reference in a law, map, regulation, 
     document, record, or other paper of the United States to the 
     peak described in subsection (a) shall be considered to be a 
     reference to ``Mt. Andrea Lawrence''.

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