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107TH CONGRESS
1ST SESSION
H. R. 3200
To require that the United States Postal Service issue a special commemora-
tive postage stamp under section 416 of title 39, United States Code,
in order to provide funding to the United States Postal Service for
mail security enhancements, and for other purposes.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
OCTOBER 31, 2001
Mr. SMITH of New Jersey introduced the following bill; which was referred
to the Committee on Government Reform
A BILL
To require that the United States Postal Service issue a
special commemorative postage stamp under section 416
of title 39, United States Code, in order to provide
funding to the United States Postal Service for mail
security enhancements, and for other purposes.
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 ‘‘Postal Heroes Com-
memoration Act of 2001’’.
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SEC. 2. REQUIREMENT THAT A SPECIAL COMMEMORATIVE
POSTAGE STAMP BE DESIGNED AND ISSUED.
(a) GENERAL.—In order to afford the public a direct
and tangible way to provide assistance to the United
States Postal Service to rapidly purchase and deploy de-
contamination equipment needed to prevent the trans-
mission of dangerous biological agents through the mail
system, the United States Postal Service shall issue a
semipostal in accordance with subsection (b).
(b) REQUIREMENTS.—The provisions of section 416
of title 39, United States Code, shall apply (as practicable)
with respect to the semipostal described in subsection (a),
subject to the following:
(1) PRICE.—The price of the semipostal shall
be equal to the price of a regular first-class postage
stamp plus an additional 11 cents.
(2) DISPOSITION
OF
AMOUNTS
BECOMING
AVAILABLE.—All amounts becoming available from
the sale of the semipostal (as determined under such
section) shall be transferred to the Postal Service for
the sole purposes of upgrading and improving the
Postal Service’s capability to decontaminate mail,
and to prevent the transmission of dangerous bio-
logical agents through the mail system.
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(3) 
COMMENCEMENT
AND
TERMINATION
DATES.—Stamps 
under 
this 
section 
shall 
be
issued—
(A) beginning on the earliest date prac-
ticable; and
(B) subject to section 416(g) of such title,
for such period of time as the Postal Service
considers necessary and appropriate, but in no
event less than 2 years.
(4) NUMERICAL
LIMITATION.—Stamps under
this section shall not be taken into account for pur-
poses of any limitation under section 416(e)(1)(C) of
such title relating to whether more than 1
semipostal may be offered for sale at the same time.
(c) DESIGN.—It is the sense of the Congress that the
semipostal issued under this section should depict, by such
design as the Postal Service considers to be most appro-
priate, honoring the sacrifices of Postal Service workers
who have lost their lives in the anthrax attacks of 2001.
SEC. 3. DEFINITIONS.
For purposes of this Act—
(1) the term ‘‘dangerous biological agents’’
means a biological agent or toxin that—
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(A) is on the list that is in effect pursuant
to section 511(d)(1) of the Antiterrorism and
Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996; and
(B) has not been exempted from the appli-
cability of regulations under section 511(e) of
such Act;
(2) the term ‘‘semipostal’’ has the meaning
given such term by section 416 of title 39, United
States Code.
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