[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 38, Number 44 (Monday, November 4, 2002)]
[Pages 1892-1893]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Statement on Signing the Niagara Falls National Heritage Area Study Act

October 30, 2002

    I have signed into law S. 1227, the Niagara Falls National Heritage 
Area Study Act. The

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Act requires the Secretary of the Interior to study the suitability and 
feasibility of establishing the Niagara Falls National Heritage Area in 
the State of New York, along and in the vicinity of the Niagara River.
    Section 3(d) purports to require the Secretary of the Interior to 
submit to the Congress recommendations related to legislation. The 
executive branch shall construe this provision in a manner consistent 
with the President's constitutional authority to submit for 
consideration to the Congress legislative proposals as the President 
judges are necessary and expedient.
                                                George W. Bush
 The White House,
 October 30, 2002.

Note: S. 1227, approved October 30, was assigned Public Law No. 107-256.