[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 145 (1999), Part 9]
[Senate]
[Page 12600]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



          STATEMENTS ON INTRODUCED BILLS AND JOINT RESOLUTIONS

      By Mr. BURNS:
  S. 1218. A bill to direct the Secretary of the Interior to issue to 
the Landusky School District, without consideration, a patent for the 
surface and mineral estates of certain lots, and for other purposes; to 
the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.


                   the landusky school lots transfers

 Mr. BURNS. Mr. President, I rise today to introduce a piece of 
legislation that is extremely important to a small town in north 
central Montana. Landusky is a small agriculture community just south 
of the Fort Belknap Reservation and just north of the Charles M. 
Russell National Wildlife Refuge. Unfortunately, an oversight which may 
seem small in the eyes of those used to the hustle and bustle of 
Washington D.C. places the Landusky school district in a difficult 
position.
  The legislation I am introducing today corrects this oversight by 
conveying the surface and mineral estates of two lots the school has 
occupied for a number of decades. The legislation is strongly supported 
by the town of Landusky and the Bureau of Land Management. It is 
imperative that we move quickly on this legislation. I would like 
nothing more than to have the students of Landusky return to school 
this fall with the knowledge that the problems facing a small town in 
Montana are worthy of our attention and we were willing to move forward 
and ensure that their school's future is as bright as their 
own.

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