To amend the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act to designate segments of the Taunton River in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts as a component of the National Wild and Scenic Rivers System.

Amends the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act to designate a specified segment of the Taunton River in Massachusetts as a component of the National Wild and Scenic Rivers System.

[Congressional Bills 109th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3321 Introduced in House (IH)]







109th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3321

 To amend the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act to designate segments of the 
 Taunton River in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts as a component of 
              the National Wild and Scenic Rivers System.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 18, 2005

  Mr. Frank of Massachusetts introduced the following bill; which was 
                 referred to the Committee on Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act to designate segments of the 
 Taunton River in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts as a component of 
              the National Wild and Scenic Rivers System.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. TAUNTON RIVER, MASSACHUSETTS.

    Section 3(a) of the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act (16 U.S.C. 1274(a)) 
is amended by adding at the end the following new paragraph:
            ``(___). Taunton river, massachusetts.--The segment 
        downstream from the headwaters, from the confluence of the Town 
        River and the Matfield River in Bridgewater to the Mount Hope 
        Bay in the city of Fall River, Massachusetts.''.
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