A bill to prohibit the further extension or establishment of national monuments in Nevada except by express authorization of Congress.

Prohibits any further extension or establishment of national parks and monuments in Nevada from being undertaken, except by express authorization of Congress.

[Congressional Bills 112th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 144 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

112th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 144

    To prohibit the further extension or establishment of national 
    monuments in Nevada except by express authorization of Congress.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

             January 25 (legislative day, January 5), 2011

  Mr. Ensign 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 prohibit the further extension or establishment of national 
    monuments in Nevada except by express authorization of Congress.

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

SECTION 1. LIMITATION ON FURTHER EXTENSION OR ESTABLISHMENT OF NATIONAL 
              MONUMENTS IN NEVADA.

    This proviso of the last sentence of the first section of the Act 
of September 14, 1950 (64 Stat. 849, chapter 950; 16 U.S.C. 431a), is 
amended by inserting ``or Nevada'' after ``Wyoming''.
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