16 U.S.C. § 3233: Expedited Congressional review

Summary

Creates special rules for how Congress must handle joint resolutions that approve a President’s recommendation about a specific activity in a named land area on a given date. Those rules count as part of each House’s own procedures for that purpose. Each House can still change these rules later in the same way it changes any other rule. The joint resolution must state that the Houses approve the President’s recommendation and must name the activity, the land area, and the date the President sent the recommendation. It may include material about the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969. When introduced, the Senate President or the House Speaker must send the resolution to one or more committees, and all resolutions about the same recommendation must go to the same committee(s). Unless this law says otherwise, the rules in section 719f(d) of title 15 apply.

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(a)Rulemaking

This subsection is enacted by Congress—

(1)as an exercise of the rulemaking power of each House of Congress, respectively, and as such it is deemed a part of the rules of each House, respectively, but applicable only with respect to the procedure to be followed in the House in the case of resolutions described by subsection (b) of this section and it supersedes other rules only to the extent that it is inconsistent therewith; and

(2)with full recognition of the constitutional right of either House to change the rules (so far as those relate to the procedure of that House) at any time, in the same manner and to the same extent as in the case of any other rule of such House.

(b)Resolution

For purposes of this section, the term “resolution” means a joint resolution, the resolving clause of which is as follows: “That the House of Representatives and Senate approve the recommendation of the President for in submitted to the Congress on 19 .”, the first blank space therein to be filled in with appropriate activity, the second blank space therein to be filled in with the name or description of the area of land affected by the activity, and the third blank space therein to be filled with the date on which the President submits his recommendation to the House of Representatives and the Senate. Such resolution may also include material relating to the application and effect of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 [42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.] to the recommendation.

(c)Referral

A resolution once introduced with respect to such Presidential recommendation shall be referred to one or more committees (and all resolutions with respect to the same Presidential recommendation shall be referred to the same committee or committees) by the President of the Senate or the Speaker of the House of Representatives, as the case may be.

(d)Other procedures

Except as otherwise provided in this section the provisions of section 719f(d) of title 15 shall apply to the consideration of the resolution.

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

References in Text

The National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, referred to in subsec. (b), is Pub. L. 91–190, Jan. 1, 1970, 83 Stat. 852, which is classified generally to chapter 55 (§ 4321 et seq.) of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see

Short Title

note set out under section 4321 of Title 42 and Tables.

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