[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 154 (2008), Part 11]
[Senate]
[Page 15461]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




  IN SUPPORT OF THE VERY ENERGETIC RADIATION IMAGING TELESCOPE ARRAY 
                            SYSTEM (VERITAS)

  Mr. NELSON of Florida. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that 
the Rules Committee be discharged from further consideration of S.J. 
Res. 35, and the Senate proceed to its immediate consideration.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  The clerk will report the joint resolution by title.
  The assistant legislative clerk read as follows:

       A joint resolution (S.J. Res. 35) to amend Public Law 108-
     331 to provide for the construction and related activities in 
     support of the Very Energetic Radiation Imaging Telescope 
     Array System (VERITAS) project in Arizona.

  There being no objection, the Senate proceeded to consider the joint 
resolution.
  Mr. NELSON of Florida. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that 
the joint resolution be read a third time and passed, the motion to 
reconsider be laid upon the table, with no interviewing action or 
debate, and any statements related to the measure be printed in the 
Record.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  The joint resolution (S.J. Res. 35) was ordered to be engrossed for a 
third reading, was read the third time, and passed, as follows:

                              S.J. Res. 35

       Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
     United States of America in Congress assembled,

     SECTION 1. LOCATION OF VERITAS PROJECT.

       Public Law 108-331 (118 Stat. 1281) is amended--
       (1) in the long title, by striking ``on Kitt Peak near 
     Tucson, Arizona'' and inserting ``in Arizona''; and
       (2) in section 1, by striking ``on Kitt Peak near Tucson, 
     Arizona'' and inserting ``at the Fred Lawrence Whipple 
     Observatory Base Camp on Mount Hopkins, Arizona, or other 
     similar location''.

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