    [Constitution, Jefferson's Manual, and the Rules of the House of Representatives, 112th Congress]
    [112nd Congress]
    [House Document 111-157]
    [Legislate Procedures Enacted in Law]
    [Pages 1221-1223]
    [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

      20. Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act, Sec. Sec. 1502,

                           1503 [16 U.S.C. 3232, 3233]

                 national need mineral activity recommendations

                                [16 U.S.C. 3232]

      Sec. 1502. (a) recommendation.--At any time after December 2, 1980,
    the President may transmit a recommendation to the Congress that mineral
    exploration, development, or extraction not permitted under this Act or
    other applicable law shall be permitted in a specified area of the lands
    referred to in section 1501 [16 U.S.C. 3231]. Notice of such transmittal
    shall be published in the Federal Register. No recommendation of the
    President under this section may be transmitted to the Congress before
    ninety days after publication in the Federal Register of notice of his
    intention to submit such recommendation.

                                      * * *

      (d) approval.--Any recommendation under this section shall take effect
    only upon enactment of a joint resolution approving such recommendation
    within the first period of one hundred and twenty calendar days of
    continuous session of Congress beginning on the date after the date of
    receipt by the Senate and House of Representatives of such
    recommendation. Any recommendation of the President submitted to
    Congress under subsection (a) shall be considered received by both
    Houses for purposes of this section on the first day on which both are
    in session occurring after such recommendation is submitted.

      (e) one-hundred-and-twenty-day computation.--For purposes of this
    section--

              (1) continuity of session of Congress is broken only by an

            adjournment sine die; and

              (2) the days on which either House is not in session because

            of an adjournment of more than three days to a day certain are

            excluded in the computation of the one-hundred-and-twenty-day

            calendar period.

                         expedited congressional review

                                [16 U.S.C. 3233]

    [[Page 1222]]

      Sec. 1503. (a) rulemaking.--This subsection is enacted by Congress--

              (1) as an exercise of the rulemaking power of each House of

            Congress, respectively, and as such it is deemed a part of the

            rules of each House, respectively, but applicable only with

            respect to the procedure to be followed in the House in the case

            of resolutions described by subsection (b) of this section and

            it supersedes other rules only to the extent that it is

            inconsistent therewith; and

              (2) with full recognition of the constitutional right of

            either House to change the rules (so far as those relate to the

            procedure of that House) at any time, in the same manner and to

            the same extent as in the case of any other rule of such House.

      (b) resolution.--For purposes of this section, the term ``resolution''
    means a joint resolution, the resolving clause of which is as follows:
    ``That the House of Representatives and Senate approve the
    recommendation of the President for ___ in ___ submitted to the Congress
    on ___, 19_.'', the first blank space therein to be filled in with
    appropriate activity, the second blank space therein to be filled in
    with the name or description of the area of land affected by the
    activity, and the third blank space therein to be filled with the date
    on which the President submits his recommendation to the House of
    Representatives and the Senate. Such resolution may also include
    material relating to the application and effect of the National
    Environmental Policy Act of 1969 [42 U.S.C. 4321] to the recommendation.

      (c) referral.--A resolution once introduced with respect to such
    Presidential recommendation shall be referred to one or more committees
    (and all resolutions with respect to the same Presidential
    recommendation shall be referred to the same committee or committees) by
    the President of the Senate or the Speaker of the House of
    Representatives, as the case may be.

    [[Page 1223]]

      (d) other procedures.--Except as otherwise provided in this section
    the provisions of section 8(d) of the Alaska Natural Gas Transportation
    Act [15 U.S.C. 719f(d)] shall apply to the consideration of the
    resolution.

                                                             Sec. 1130(21A)