SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Stewart Lee Udall 
Congressional Gold Medal Act’’. 
SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 
The Congress finds the following: 
(1) Stewart Lee Udall was born on January 31, 
1920, in Saint Johns, Arizona, the son of former Ar-
izona Supreme Court Justice Levi Stewart Udall 
and Louise Lee Udall. 
(2) Stewart L. Udall began serving his country 
in 1942, when he joined the United States Army Air 
Corps (predecessor of the United States Air Force) 
in World War II, serving as an enlisted B24 waist 
gunner in Italy. He flew more than 50 missions over 
Western Europe over four years, receiving the Air 
Medal with three Oak Leaf Clusters. 
(3) After coming home from war, Stewart L. 
Udall returned to the University of Arizona where 
he received a bachelors and law degree and was ad-
mitted to the Arizona State Bar. After graduating 
from law school, he began his own private practice 
and eventually established the law firm of Udall and 
Udall with his brother Morris K. Udall. 
(4) Stewart L. Udall’s first elected office was as 
a member of the Amphitheater School Board (1951), 
where he participated in desegregating the Amphi-
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theater School District before the United States Su-
preme Court ruling in Brown v. Board of Education. 
(5) Beginning in 1954, Stewart L. Udall was 
elected to serve four terms as United States Rep-
resentative from Arizona’s second district. 
(6) Upon the 1960 Presidential election, Presi-
dent Kennedy appointed Stewart L. Udall as Sec-
retary of the Interior. He maintained this position 
for eight years, where his accomplishments under 
Presidents Kennedy and Johnson made him a hero 
for the environmental and conservation communities. 
(7) Among the legislative accomplishments dur-
ing his cabinet career, Stewart L. Udall helped guide 
numerous 
landmark 
environmental 
measures 
through Congress, including the Wilderness Act of 
1964, the Land and Water Conservation Fund Act 
of 1965, the Endangered Species Preservation Act 
of 1966, the National Trail System Act of 1968, the 
Solid Waste Disposal Act of 1965, the Wild and Sce-
nic Rivers Act of 1968, and the Clear Air, Water 
Quality and Clean Water Restoration Acts and 
Amendments. 
(8) Furthermore, Secretary Udall was a co-
author of the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964. 
This legislation created several new social programs 
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that helped promote the health, education, and gen-
eral welfare of the impoverished. Some of the pro-
grams remaining today include Head Start and the 
Job Corps. 
(9) As Secretary of the Interior in the Kennedy 
and Johnson administrations, Stewart L. Udall ex-
panded the National Park Service by presiding over 
the acquisition of 3.85 million acres of new holdings, 
including 4 national parks (Canyonlands in Utah, 
Redwood in California, North Cascades in Wash-
ington State, and Guadalupe Mountains in Texas), 
6 national monuments, 9 national recreation areas, 
20 historic sites, 50 wildlife refuges, and 8 national 
seashores. 
(10) Furthermore, Stewart L. Udall established 
the Bureau of Outdoor Recreation to coordinate all 
Federal outdoor programs. 
(11) In September 1966, Secretary Stewart 
Udall announced the creation of Project EROS, 
which led the United States to state of the art 
science and technology that includes Landsat, the 
longest running acquisition of satellite imagery. 
Project EROS began as a revolutionary program 
that utilized earth-orbiting satellites that map the 
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planet to gather data about the Earth’s natural re-
sources along with changes in weather and climate. 
(12) During his tenure as Secretary of the Inte-
rior, Stewart L. Udall also became a champion of 
the arts, convincing President Kennedy to invite the 
renowned poet Robert Frost to speak at his inau-
guration and setting in motion initiatives that led to 
the creation of the Kennedy Center, Wolf Trap 
Farm Park, the National Endowments for the Arts 
and the Humanities, and the revived Ford’s Theatre. 
(13) Additionally, while Stewart L. Udall was 
Secretary of the Interior, he continued to fight 
against segregation, when he threatened to refuse 
the all-white Washington Redskins access to the new 
DC stadium, of which he was the Federal landlord. 
(14) After he left government service, Stewart 
L. Udall continued helping the American people by 
becoming a crusader for victims of radiation expo-
sure (particularly Native Americans) resulting from 
the government’s Cold War nuclear programs. He 
helped to pass the Radiation Exposure Compensa-
tion Act in 1990, which was signed by President 
George Bush. 
(15) Moreover, Stewart L. Udall was a prolific 
writer, penning countless articles, essays, and op- 
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eds. He also co-authored nine books, and wrote nine 
of his own, including the seminal title in the con-
servation movement, ‘‘The Quiet Crisis’’. 
(16) Among his many honors, Stewart L. Udall 
was a recipient of the Ansel Adams Award, the Wil-
derness Society’s highest conservation award, the 
Common Cause Public Service Achievement Award 
for his lifelong protection of the environment and 
the defense of American citizens who were victims of 
nuclear weapons testing, and the United Nations 
Gold Medal for Lifetime Achievement. 
(17) Until his passing in 2010, Stewart L. 
Udall continued his devotion to public service as an 
author, historian, scholar, lecturer, environmental 
activist, lawyer, and citizen of the outdoors. 
SEC. 3. CONGRESSIONAL GOLD MEDAL. 
(a) PRESENTATION AUTHORIZED.—The Speaker of 
the House of Representatives and the President pro tem-
pore of the Senate shall make appropriate arrangements 
for the posthumous presentation, on behalf of the Con-
gress, of a gold medal of appropriate design in commemo-
ration of Stewart Lee Udall, in recognition of his contribu-
tions to the nation. 
(b) DESIGN AND STRIKING.—For purposes of the 
presentation referred to in subsection (a), the Secretary 
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of the Treasury (referred to in this Act as the ‘‘Sec-
retary’’) shall strike a gold medal with suitable emblems, 
devices, and inscriptions, to be determined by the Sec-
retary. 
SEC. 4. DUPLICATE MEDALS. 
The Secretary may strike and sell duplicates in 
bronze of the gold medal struck pursuant to section 3 
under such regulations as the Secretary may prescribe, at 
a price sufficient to cover the cost thereof, including labor, 
materials, dies, use of machinery, and overhead expenses, 
and the cost of the gold medal. 
SEC. 5. STATUS OF MEDALS. 
(a) NATIONAL MEDALS.—The medals struck pursu-
ant to this Act are national medals for purposes of chapter 
51 of title 31, United States Code. 
(b) NUMISMATIC ITEMS.—For purposes of section 
5134 of title 31, United States Code, all medals struck 
under this Act shall be considered to be numismatic items. 
SEC. 6. AUTHORITY TO USE FUND AMOUNTS; PROCEEDS OF 
SALE. 
(a) AUTHORITY TO USE FUND AMOUNTS.—There is 
authorized to be charged against the United States Mint 
Public Enterprise Fund, such amounts as may be nec-
essary to pay for the costs of the medals struck pursuant 
to this Act. 
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(b) PROCEEDS OF SALE.—Amounts received from the 
sale of duplicate bronze medals authorized under section 
4 shall be deposited into the United States Mint Public 
Enterprise Fund. 
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