Vietnam Veterans Memorial Visitor Center Deadline Enforcement Act

Vietnam Veterans Memorial Visitor Center Deadline Enforcement Act - Amends federal law which authorized construction of a Vietnam Veterans Memorial Visitor Center (Center) in Washington, D.C. to require: (1) the Center to be located underground in the triangular land area between Henry Bacon Drive, 23rd Street, Constitution Avenue, and the Lincoln Memorial; and (2) final approval for the Center no later than 30 days after the enactment of this Act.

[Congressional Bills 109th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2419 Introduced in Senate (IS)]








109th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 2419

 To ensure the proper remembrance of Vietnam veterans and the Vietnam 
War by providing a deadline for the designation of a visitor center for 
                     the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             March 15, 2006

  Mr. Stevens (for himself, Mr. Hagel, and Mr. Kerry) introduced the 
 following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on 
                      Energy and Natural Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
 To ensure the proper remembrance of Vietnam veterans and the Vietnam 
War by providing a deadline for the designation of a visitor center for 
                     the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

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

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Vietnam Veterans Memorial Visitor 
Center Deadline Enforcement Act''.

SEC. 2. DEADLINE FOR APPROVAL OF VIETNAM VETERANS MEMORIAL VISITOR 
              CENTER.

    Section 6 of Public Law 96-297 (16 U.S.C. 431 note; 94 Stat. 827, 
117 Stat. 1348) is amended--
            (1) in subsection (a), by striking paragraph (2) and 
        inserting the following:
            ``(2) Location.--The visitor center shall be located 
        underground in the triangular land area between Henry Bacon 
        Drive, 23rd Street, Constitution Avenue, and the Lincoln 
        Memorial in the District of Columbia.''; and
            (2) by adding at the end the following:
    ``(e) Deadline for Approval.--Notwithstanding any other provision 
of law, final approval of the visitor center shall occur not later than 
30 days after the date of enactment of this subsection.''.
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