For Immediate Release
Office of the Press Secretary
December 17, 2002
Statement by the Press Secretary
On Tuesday, December 17, 2002, the President signed into law:
H.R. 3180, which grants the consent of the Congress to an amendment
to the New Hampshire-Vermont Interstate School Compact.
H.R. 3401, which conveys U.S. Forest Service facilities and lands
to the Clovis Unified School District in California.
H.R. 3449, which authorizes the Department of the Interior to
acquire additional land to be included within the boundaries of the
George Washington Birthplace National Monument in Virginia.
H.R. 3609, which reauthorizes and amends the Department of
Transportation's pipeline safety programs.
H.R. 3858, which expands the boundaries of the New River Gorge
National River in West Virginia.
H.R. 4692, which increases the acreage ceiling of the Andersonville
National Historic Site in Georgia.
H.R. 4823, Holocaust Restitution Tax Fairness Act of 2002, which
makes permanent the exclusion from Federal income tax of restitution
payments received by victims of the Nazi regime.
H.R. 5125, which authorizes the Department of the Interior to
establish a battlefield acquisition grant program, and authorizes
program funding.
H.R. 5738, which appropriates $150 million annually for FY 2004
through FY 2008 for each of two special diabetes programs within the
Department of Health and Human Services.
H.R. 2099, which increases the authorization of appropriations for
the Vancouver National Historic Reserve in the State of Washington;
H.R. 2109, which requires the Department of the Interior to study
the suitability and feasibility of establishing the Virginia Key Beach
Park near Miami, Florida, as a unit of the National Park System;
H.R. 2115, which authorizes the Department of the Interior to
participate in the design, planning, and construction of a project to
reclaim and reuse wastewater within or near the Lakehaven Utility
District in the State of Washington;
H.R. 2187, which authorizes the Department of the Interior to use
receipts collected from mineral leasing activities on certain naval oil
shale reserves in Colorado for environmental restoration, waste
management, and compliance costs;
H.R. 2385, "Virgin River Dinosaur Footprint Preserve Act," which
authorizes a grant to finance the conveyance of certain private
property to the City of St. George, Utah, in order to protect and
preserve certain rare paleontological resources on that property;
H.R. 2628, "Muscle Shoals National Heritage Area Study Act of 2002," which requires the Department of the Interior to study the
suitability and feasibility of establishing the Muscle Shoals National
Heritage Area in Alabama;
H.R. 2818, which authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to convey
a parcel of Bureau of Land Management land in Idaho to the owner of the
Sand Hills Resort;
H.R. 2828, "Klamath Basin Emergency Operation and Maintenance
Refund Act of 2002," which authorizes the Department of the Interior to
refund to the Klamath Project irrigation and drainage districts the
operation and maintenance fees collected for 2001;
H.R. 2937, which requires the Secretary of the Interior to convey
approximately 2,880 acres of land to Clark County, Nevada; and
H.R. 2990, "Lower Rio Grande Valley Water Resources Conservation
and Improvement Act of 2002" which amends the Lower Rio Grande Valley
Water Resources Conservation and Improvement Act of 2000 by authorizing
15 additional projects and increasing authorized funding for project
studies and construction.
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