[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 148 (2002), Part 8]
[House]
[Page 10529]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                            PETITIONS, ETC.

  Under clause 3 of rule XII, petitions and papers were laid on the 
clerk's desk and referred as follows:

       59. The SPEAKER presented a petition of the St. Louis 
     County Board, Minnesota, relative to Resolution No. 150 
     petitioning the United States Congress that the St. Louis 
     County Board of Commissioners hereby urges the Pension 
     Benefit Guaranty Corporation to delay termination of the LTV 
     Steel Mining Pension Plan until March 31, 2003, in order to 
     enable the employees of LTV Steel Mining Company and the 
     State of Minnesota to study possible alternatives to a 
     Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation distressed termination; 
     to the Committee on Education and the Workforce.
       60. Also, a petition of the County of Chambers, Texas, 
     relative to a Resolution petitioning the United States 
     Congress to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow 
     for the issuance of tax-exempt facility bonds for the purpose 
     of financing air pollution facilities in nonattainment areas 
     and to provide that such tax-exempt facility bonds issued 
     during the years of 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006 or 2007 for the 
     construction of such air pollution control facilities not be 
     subject to the volume cap requirements; to the Committee on 
     Ways and Means.

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