To require the Government Accountability Office to submit a report to Congress on the compliance of the United States Postal Service with procedural requirements in the closing of the postal sorting facility in Aberdeen, South Dakota, and for other purposes.

Requires the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to report to specified congressional committees on the compliance of the U.S. Postal Service with procedural requirements in the closing of the postal sorting facility in Aberdeen, South Dakota. Prohibits the U.S. Postal Service from taking any action to close such facility during a period ending 60 days after the submission of the GAO report.

[Congressional Bills 109th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5599 Introduced in House (IH)]








109th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5599

 To require the Government Accountability Office to submit a report to 
  Congress on the compliance of the United States Postal Service with 
 procedural requirements in the closing of the postal sorting facility 
           in Aberdeen, South Dakota, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             June 13, 2006

 Ms. Herseth introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                     Committee on Government Reform

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                                 A BILL


 
 To require the Government Accountability Office to submit a report to 
  Congress on the compliance of the United States Postal Service with 
 procedural requirements in the closing of the postal sorting facility 
           in Aberdeen, South Dakota, and for other purposes.

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

SECTION 1. REPORT ON THE POSTAL SORTING FACILITY IN ABERDEEN, SOUTH 
              DAKOTA.

    (a) In General.--Not later than 1 year after the date of enactment 
of this Act, the Government Accountability Office shall submit a report 
on the compliance of the United States Postal Service with procedural 
requirements in the closing of the postal sorting facility in Aberdeen, 
South Dakota, to--
            (1) the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental 
        Affairs of the Senate; and
            (2) the Committee on Government Reform of the House of 
        Representatives.
    (b) Contents.--The report submitted under subsection (a) shall 
include an evaluation of--
            (1) the compliance of the United States Postal Service with 
        the requirements of section 404(b) of title 39, United States 
        Code (and any other statutory or regulatory requirement that 
        may apply) with respect to the closing of the postal sorting 
        facility in Aberdeen, South Dakota; and
            (2) changed circumstances that have occurred at the postal 
        sorting facility in Aberdeen, South Dakota, since February 1993 
        (when a report on that facility was submitted to the Senate by 
        the General Accounting Office, as the Government Accountability 
        Office was then called) that may warrant reconsideration of the 
        determination to close that facility.
    (c) Operation of the Postal Sorting Facility.--During the period 
from the date of enactment of this Act through the date occurring 60 
days after the date of the submission of the report required by this 
Act, the United States Postal Service may not take any action to close 
the postal sorting facility in Aberdeen, South Dakota.
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