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(f) WITHDRAWAL.—The Blackfeet Wilderness Area is 
hereby withdrawn from all forms of entry, appropriation, 
the disposal under the mining laws, and from disposition 
under the geothermal and mineral leasing laws. 
SEC. 109. WATER. 
(a) RESERVATION.—With respect to each wilderness 
area designated by this title, the Congress hereby reserves 
a quantity of water sufficient to fulfill the purposes for 
which such area is designated. The priority date of such 
reserved rights shall be the date of enactment of this Act. 
(b) IMPLEMENTATION.—The Secretary of Agri-
culture and all other officers of the United States shall 
take all steps necessary to protect the rights reserved by 
subsection (a), including the filing of claims for quantifica-
tion of such rights in any present or future appropriate 
stream adjudication, in a court of the State of Idaho, Mon-
tana, Wyoming, Oregon, or Washington, in which the 
United States has been or is properly joined in accordance 
with section 208 of the Act of July 10, 1952 (66 Stat. 
560; 43 U.S.C. 666; commonly referred to as the 
‘‘McCarran Amendment’’). 
TITLE II—BIOLOGICAL 
CONNECTING CORRIDORS 
SEC. 201. FINDINGS. 
The Congress finds the following:
(c) CREDIT ALLOWED AGAINST ALTERNATIVE MIN-
IMUM TAX.— 
(1) IN
GENERAL.—Subsection (c) of section 
25D of such Code is amended to read as follows: 
‘‘(c) LIMITATION BASED
ON AMOUNT
OF TAX; 
CARRYFORWARD OF UNUSED CREDIT.— 
‘‘(1) LIMITATION
BASED
ON
AMOUNT
OF 
TAX.—In the case of a taxable year to which section 
26(a)(2) does not apply, the credit allowed under 
subsection (a) for the taxable year shall not exceed 
the excess of— 
‘‘(A) the sum of the regular tax liability 
(as defined in section 26(b)) plus the tax im-
posed by section 55, over 
‘‘(B) the sum of the credits allowable 
under this subpart (other than this section) and 
section 27 for the taxable year. 
‘‘(2) CARRYFORWARD OF UNUSED CREDIT.— 
‘‘(A) RULE
FOR
YEARS
IN
WHICH
ALL 
PERSONAL
CREDITS
ALLOWED
AGAINST
REG-
ULAR
AND
ALTERNATIVE
MINIMUM
TAX.—In 
the case of a taxable year to which section 
26(a)(2) applies, if the credit allowable under 
subsection (a) exceeds the limitation imposed by 
section 26(a)(2) for such taxable year reduced 
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(1) The most recent scientific information on 
ecological reserve design and function points out the 
critical need for biological connecting corridors be-
tween the larger core ecosystem areas. 
(2) While none of the remaining major wild 
land ecosystems of the Northern Rockies Bioregion 
appears to be of sufficient size to perpetuate the full 
complement of self-sustaining viable populations of 
native wildlife, biological diversity, and full range of 
ecological processes on its own, it appears that an 
effective reserve system can be achieved if biological 
connecting corridors between the ecosystems are 
identified and protected. 
(3) The wild land areas described in this section 
are located between the major core ecosystems of the 
region and are essential for wildlife and plant migra-
tion and genetic interchange. 
(4) These areas are some of the most beautiful 
and wild mountain ranges in the Nation, including 
the Bitterroot, Sapphire, Lost River, Lemhi, and 
Bridger mountain ranges. 
SEC. 202. DESIGNATION OF BIOLOGICAL CONNECTING COR-
RIDORS. 
(a) DESIGNATION.—To protect the life flow of the 
Northern Rockies Bioregion, the areas specified in the
I 
110TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 6331 
To amend titles XVIII and XIX of the Social Security Act to extend expiring 
provisions under the Medicare Program, to improve beneficiary access 
to preventive and mental health services, to enhance low-income benefit 
programs, and to maintain access to care in rural areas, including phar-
macy access, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JUNE 20, 2008 
Mr. RANGEL (for himself and Mr. DINGELL) introduced the following bill; 
which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in 
addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be subse-
quently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such 
provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned 
A BILL 
To amend titles XVIII and XIX of the Social Security Act 
to extend expiring provisions under the Medicare Pro-
gram, to improve beneficiary access to preventive and 
mental health services, to enhance low-income benefit 
programs, and to maintain access to care in rural areas, 
including pharmacy access, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
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H. R. 1001
One Hundred Ninth Congress
of the
United States of America 
AT THE FIRST SESSION 
Begun and held at the City of Washington on Tuesday, 
the fourth day of January, two thousand and five 
An Act 
To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 301 South 
Heatherwilde Boulevard in Pflugerville, Texas, as the ‘‘Sergeant Byron W. Norwood 
Post Office Building’’.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of 
the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. DESIGNATION. 
The facility of the United States Postal Service located at 
301 South Heatherwilde Boulevard in Pflugerville, Texas, shall 
be known and designated as the ‘‘Sergeant Byron W. Norwood 
Post Office Building’’. 
SEC. 2. REFERENCES. 
Any reference in a law, map, regulation, document, paper, 
or other record of the United States to the facility referred to 
in section 1 shall be deemed to be a reference to the ‘‘Sergeant 
Byron W. Norwood Post Office Building’’.
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
Vice President of the United States and
President of the Senate.
I 
108TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 2098
To amend title 38, United States Code, to provide for the payment of 
a monthly stipend to the surviving parents (known as ‘‘Gold Star par-
ents’’) of members of the Armed Forces who die during a period of 
war. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MAY 14, 2003
Mr. MCNULTY introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on Veterans’ Affairs 
A BILL 
To amend title 38, United States Code, to provide for the 
payment of a monthly stipend to the surviving parents 
(known as ‘‘Gold Star parents’’) of members of the 
Armed Forces who die during a period of war.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Gold Star Parents An-
nuity Act’’.
SEC. 2. SPECIAL PENSION FOR GOLD STAR PARENTS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—(1) Chapter 15 of title 38, United 
States Code, is amended by adding at the end the fol-
lowing new subchapter: 
‘‘SUBCHAPTER V—SPECIAL PENSION FOR GOLD 
STAR PARENTS 
‘‘§ 1571. Gold Star parents 
‘‘(a) The Secretary shall pay monthly to each person 
who has received a Gold Star lapel pin under section 1126 
of title 10 as a parent of a person who died in a manner 
described in subsection (a) of that section a special pen-
sion in an amount determined under subsection (b). 
‘‘(b) The amount of special pension payable under 
this section with respect to the death of any person shall 
be $125 per month. In any case in which there is more 
than one parent eligible for special pension under this sec-
tion with respect to the death of a person, the Secretary 
shall divide the payment equally among those eligible par-
ents. 
‘‘(c) The receipt of special pension shall not deprive 
any person of any other pension or other benefit, right, 
or privilege to which such person is or may hereafter be 
entitled under any existing or subsequent law. Special pen-
sion shall be paid in addition to all other payments under 
laws of the United States.
‘‘(d) Special pension shall not be subject to any at-
tachment, execution, levy, tax lien, or detention under any 
process whatever. 
‘‘(e) For purposes of this section, the term ‘parent’ 
has the meaning provided in section 1126(d)(2) of title 
10.’’. 
(2) The table of sections at the beginning of such 
chapter is amended by adding at the end the following:
‘‘SUBCHAPTER V—SPECIAL PENSION FOR GOLD STAR PARENTS 
‘‘1571. Gold Star parents.’’.
(b) EFFECTIVE DATE.—Section 1571 of title 38, 
United States Code, as added by subsection (a), shall take 
effect on the first day of the first fiscal year beginning 
after the date of the enactment of this Act.
Æ
I 
109TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 1001
To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 
301 South Heatherwilde Boulevard in Pflugerville, Texas, as the ‘‘Ser-
geant Byron W. Norwood Post Office Building’’. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MARCH 1, 2005
Mr. MCCAUL of Texas introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on Government Reform 
A BILL 
To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service 
located at 301 South Heatherwilde Boulevard in 
Pflugerville, Texas, as the ‘‘Sergeant Byron W. Norwood 
Post Office Building’’.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SERGEANT BYRON W. NORWOOD POST OFFICE 
BUILDING. 
(a) DESIGNATION.—The facility of the United States 
Postal Service located at 301 South Heatherwilde Boule-
vard in Pflugerville, Texas, shall be known and designated
as the ‘‘Sergeant Byron W. Norwood Post Office Build-
ing’’. 
(b) REFERENCES.—Any reference in a law, map, reg-
ulation, document, paper, or other record of the United 
States to the facility referred to in subsection (a) shall 
be deemed to be a reference to the ‘‘Sergeant Byron W. 
Norwood Post Office Building’’.
Æ
BIOLOGICAL CONNECTING CORRIDORS—Continued 
Name of Area 
Approximate 
Acreage 
Location 
East Cathedral Peak/Elk Creek ....
34,207 Idaho Panhandle National Forests 
Spion Kop ......................................
21,702 Idaho Panhandle National Forests 
Roland Point .................................
6,003 Idaho Panhandle National Forests 
Trout Creek ...................................
41,366 Idaho Panhandle/Kootenai Na-
tional Forests 
Wonderful Peak .............................
6,675 Idaho Panhandle/Lolo National 
Forests 
Stevens Peak .................................
5,660 Idaho Panhandle/Lolo National 
Forests 
Evans Gulch ..................................
8,054 Lolo National Forest 
Gilt Edge-Silver Creek ..................
8,567 Lolo National Forest 
Ward Eagle ....................................
8,842 Lolo National Forest 
Marble Point ..................................
12,580 Lolo National Forest 
Clear Creek ....................................
5,645 Lolo National Forest 
Totals .....................................
(a) 337,738 
(b) 204,918 
Cabinet/Yaak/Selkirk Corridor: 
Totals .....................................
(a) See Total 
Cabinet/Yaak/ 
Selkirk 
(b) 96,266 
Cabinet/Yaak/Canada Corridor: 
Totals .....................................
(a) 0 
(b) 41,044 
Anaconda-Pintlar/Bitterroot Mountains Corridor-Beaverhead National Forest: 
West Pioneers ................................
246,041 Beaverhead National Forest 
Call Mountain ................................
8,750 Beaverhead National Forest 
Cattle Gulch Ridge ........................
19,035 Beaverhead National Forest 
East Pioneers ................................
145,445 Beaverhead National Forest/Bu-
reau of Land Management 
Totals .....................................
(a) 419,271 
(b) 136,564 
Frank Church/Greater Yellowstone Corridor-Bitterroot-Salmon-Beaverhead-Targhee Na-
tional Forests: 
Tolan Creek ...................................
14,169 Bitterroot National Forest 
Allan Mountain ..............................
157,395 Bitterroot/Salmon National For-
ests 
Anderson Mountain .......................
48,947 Beaverhead/Salmon National For-
ests 
West Big Hole ...............................
217,626 Beaverhead/Salmon National For-
ests 
Goat Mountain ..............................
44,473 Beaverhead/Salmon National For-
ests 
Italian Peaks/Eighteen Mile/Maid-
en ...............................................
304,787 Beaverhead/Salmon/Targhee Na-
tional Forests 
Garfield Mountain .........................
87,867 Beaverhead/Targhee National 
Forests 
Four Eyes Canyon .........................
7,141 Beaverhead National Forest 
Tendoy Mountains .........................
88,000 Beaverhead National Forest/Bu-
reau of Land Management
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with respect to a year. Such performance period 
shall occur prior to the beginning of such year. 
‘‘(E) SPECIAL RULE.—The Secretary shall 
initially use as the performance standard for 
the 
measures 
specified 
under 
paragraph 
(2)(A)(i) for a provider of services or a renal di-
alysis facility the lesser of— 
‘‘(i) the performance of such provider 
or facility for such measures in the year 
selected by the Secretary under the second 
sentence of subsection (b)(14)(A)(ii); or 
‘‘(ii) a performance standard based on 
the national performance rates for such 
measures in a period determined by the 
Secretary. 
‘‘(5) LIMITATION ON REVIEW.—There shall be 
no administrative or judicial review under section 
1869, section 1878, or otherwise of the following: 
‘‘(A) The determination of the amount of 
the payment reduction under paragraph (1). 
‘‘(B) The establishment of the performance 
standards and the performance period under 
paragraph (4). 
‘‘(C) The specification of measures under 
paragraph (2). 
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IIB 
109TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 1001
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 
APRIL 21, 2005
Received; read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and 
Governmental Affairs 
AN ACT 
To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service 
located at 301 South Heatherwilde Boulevard in 
Pflugerville, Texas, as the ‘‘Sergeant Byron W. Norwood 
Post Office Building’’.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
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‘‘(D) The methodology developed under 
paragraph (3) that is used to calculate total 
performance scores and performance scores for 
individual measures. 
‘‘(6) PUBLIC REPORTING.— 
‘‘(A) IN
GENERAL.—The Secretary shall 
establish procedures for making information re-
garding performance under this subsection 
available to the public, including— 
‘‘(i) the total performance score 
achieved by the provider of services or 
renal dialysis facility under paragraph (3) 
and appropriate comparisons of providers 
of services and renal dialysis facilities to 
the national average with respect to such 
scores; and 
‘‘(ii) the performance score achieved 
by the provider or facility with respect to 
individual measures. 
‘‘(B) OPPORTUNITY TO REVIEW.—The pro-
cedures established under subparagraph (A) 
shall ensure that a provider of services and a 
renal dialysis facility has the opportunity to re-
view the information that is to be made public 
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HR 1001 RFS 
SECTION 1. DESIGNATION. 
The facility of the United States Postal Service lo-
cated 
at 
301 
South 
Heatherwilde 
Boulevard 
in 
Pflugerville, Texas, shall be known and designated as the 
‘‘Sergeant Byron W. Norwood Post Office Building’’. 
SEC. 2. REFERENCES. 
Any reference in a law, map, regulation, document, 
paper, or other record of the United States to the facility 
referred to in section 1 shall be deemed to be a reference 
to the ‘‘Sergeant Byron W. Norwood Post Office Build-
ing’’.
Passed the House of Representatives April 20, 2005. 
Attest: 
JEFF TRANDAHL, 
Clerk.
BIOLOGICAL CONNECTING CORRIDORS—Continued 
Name of Area 
Approximate 
Acreage 
Location 
Henneberry Ridge ..........................
12,000 Bureau of Land Management 
Sage Creek .....................................
15,000 Bureau of Land Management 
Saginaw Creek ...............................
7,519 Beaverhead National Forest 
Tash Peak .....................................
60,574 Beaverhead National Forest 
Beaver Lakes .................................
16,088 Beaverhead National Forest 
Agency Creek .................................
6,382 Salmon National Forest 
Raynolds Pass ...............................
7,153 Targhee National Forest 
Two Top ........................................
6,775 Targhee National Forest 
Signal Peak ...................................
8,165 Targhee National Forest 
Mount Jefferson/Centennials .........
87,726 Targhee/Beaverhead National 
Forest/Bureau of Land Man-
agement 
Dry Canyon ...................................
3,230 Gallatin National Forest 
Totals .....................................
(a) 1,201,017 
(b) 642,106 
French Creek/Hells Canyon Study Area Corridor: 
Totals .............................................
(a) 0 
(b) 3,233 
Lemhi Mountains Corridor-Salmon-Challis-Targhee National Forest: 
North Lemhi Mountains ................
306,629 Salmon/Challis National Forests 
Diamond Peak ...............................
167,321 Salmon/Challis/Targhee National 
Forests 
Black Canyon ................................
5,503 Idaho Falls Dist. Bureau of Land 
Management 
Warm Creek ..................................
6,404 Salmon National Forest 
Goldbug Ridge ...............................
12,092 Salmon National Forest 
Sal Mountain .................................
13,514 Salmon National Forest 
Totals .....................................
(a) 511,463 
(b) 87,614 
Lost River Range Corridor-Challis National Forest: 
Borah Peak ....................................
135,077 Challis National Forest/Salmon 
Dist. Bureau of Land Manage-
ment 
King Mountain ..............................
83,463 Challis National Forest 
Grouse Peak ..................................
8,156 Challis National Forest 
Red Hill .........................................
14,402 Challis National Forest 
Jumpoff Mountain .........................
13,556 Challis National Forest 
Wood Canyon .................................
7,505 Challis National Forest 
Pahsimeroi .....................................
75,921 Challis National Forest 
Burnt Creek ...................................
21,680 Salmon/Idaho Falls Dist. Bureau 
of Land Management 
Hawley Mountain ..........................
17,422 Idaho Falls Dist. Bureau of Land 
Management 
Totals .....................................
(a) 377,182 
(b) 63,570 
Frank Church Complex/Lemhi Range Corridor: 
Totals .............................................
(a) 0
IV
103D CONGRESS
2D SESSION
H. CON. RES. 256
Expressing the sense of Congress that any health care reform legislation
should preserve the right of bona fide trade and professional associations
to continue to offer group health insurance within the framework estab-
lished to expand comprehensive and affordable health insurance and
prevent discriminatory insurance practices.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
JUNE 16, 1994
Mr. MORAN submitted the following concurrent resolution; which was referred
jointly to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, Ways and Means,
and Education and Labor
CONCURRENT RESOLUTION
Expressing the sense of Congress that any health care reform
legislation should preserve the right of bona fide trade
and professional associations to continue to offer group
health insurance within the framework established to ex-
pand comprehensive and affordable health insurance and
prevent discriminatory insurance practices.
Whereas bona fide trade and professional associations have
been instrumental in providing comprehensive, cost-effec-
tive health care to their members for decades, champion-
ing small employer plans when the group health needs of
these groups were largely unserved, and providing access
to group health insurance when it was otherwise unavail-
able;
112TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 1231 
AN ACT 
To amend the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act to require 
that each 5-year offshore oil and gas leasing program 
offer leasing in the areas with the most prospective oil 
and gas resources, to establish a domestic oil and natural 
gas production goal, and for other purposes.
103D CONGRESS
2D SESSION
H. CON. RES. 266
Expressing the sense of the Congress concerning the need to preserve the
traditional lifeways in certain Alaska Native villages.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
JULY 14, 1994
Mr. YOUNG of Alaska submitted the following concurrent resolution; which
was referred to the Committee on Natural Resources
CONCURRENT RESOLUTION
Expressing the sense of the Congress concerning the need
to preserve the traditional lifeways in certain Alaska
Native villages.
Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate
concurring), That in recognition of the prohibitive finan-
cial burden placed upon Alaska Native subsistence whaling
captains by international obligations ratified by the United
States, it is the sense of the Congress that the utmost
consideration should be given to clarify Federal tax law
to allow a reasonable Federal charitable tax deduction for
the reasonable and necessary expenses of such captains
related to their conduct of the centuries old subsistence
whaling hunt as a charitable contribution activity for the
BIOLOGICAL CONNECTING CORRIDORS—Continued 
Name of Area 
Approximate 
Acreage 
Location 
Electric Peak/Little Blackfoot 
Meadows.
53,311 Helena/Deerlodge National For-
ests 
Whitetail-Haystack ........................
76,132 Deerlodge National Forest 
O’Neil Creek ..................................
6,183 Deerlodge National Forest 
Bridger ..........................................
51,075 Gallatin National Forest 
Totals .....................................
(a) 1,164,974 
(b) 542,118 
Mt. Leidy Highlands/Wind River Range Corridor: 
Seven Lakes-Mosquito Lake ..........
59,613 Bridger-Teton/Shoshone National 
Forests 
Warm Springs Creek .....................
6,215 Shoshone National Forests 
Bench Mark ...................................
5,940 Shoshone National Forests 
Totals .....................................
(a) 71,768 
(b) 62,170 
Corridor Total ........................
(a) 5,040,285 
Corridor Total ........................
(b) 3,476,118 
SEC. 203. TREATMENT OF BIOLOGICAL CONNECTING COR-
RIDORS. 
(a) ROADLESS LANDS DESIGNATED
AS WILDER-
NESS.—The roadless areas identified as part of the bio-
logical connecting corridors on the maps referred to in sec-
tion 202 and the areas described on such maps as wilder-
ness are hereby designated as wilderness and as compo-
nents of the National Wilderness Preservation System. 
(b) SPECIAL CORRIDOR MANAGEMENT AREAS.— 
Those portions of the biological connecting corridors iden-
tified on the maps referred to in 202 that are not covered 
by subsection (a) are hereby designated as special corridor 
management areas. The portions shall be managed in the 
following manner: