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House Calendar No. 134 
112TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 1818 
[Report No. 112–505] 
To designate Mt. Andrea Lawrence, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MAY 10, 2011 
Mr. MCKEON introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on Natural Resources 
MAY 30, 2012 
Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed 
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A BILL 
To designate Mt. Andrea Lawrence, and for other purposes. 
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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 ‘‘Mt. Andrea Lawrence 
Designation Act of 2011’’. 
SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 
Congress finds that Andrea Mead Lawrence— 
(1) was born in Rutland County, Vermont, on 
April 19, 1932, where she developed a life-long love 
of winter sports and appreciation for the environ-
ment; 
(2) competed in the 1948 Winter Olympics in 
St. Moritz, Switzerland, and the 1956 Winter Olym-
pics in Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy, and was the torch 
lighter at the 1960 Winter Olympics in Squaw Val-
ley, California; 
(3) won 2 Gold Medals in the Olympic special 
and giant slalom races at the 1952 Winter Olympics 
in Oslo, Norway, and remains the only United 
States double-gold medalist in alpine skiing; 
(4) was inducted into the U.S. National Ski 
Hall of Fame in 1958 at the age of 25; 
(5) moved in 1968 to Mammoth Lakes in the 
spectacularly beautiful Eastern Sierra of California, 
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a place that she fought to protect for the rest of her 
life; 
(6) founded the Friends of Mammoth to main-
tain the beauty and serenity of Mammoth Lakes and 
the Eastern Sierra; 
(7) served for 16 years on the Mono County 
Board of Supervisors, where she worked tirelessly to 
protect and restore Mono Lake, Bodie State Historic 
Park and other important natural and cultural land-
scapes of the Eastern Sierra; 
(8) worked, as a member of the Great Basin 
Air Pollution Control District, to reduce air pollution 
that had been caused by the dewatering of Owens 
Lake; 
(9) founded the Andrea Lawrence Institute for 
Mountains and Rivers in 2003 to work for environ-
mental protection and economic vitality in the region 
she loved so much; 
(10) testified in 2008 before the Mono County 
Board of Supervisors in favor of the Eastern Sierra 
and Northern San Gabriel Wild Heritage Act, a bill 
that was enacted the day before she died; 
(11) passed away on March 31, 2009, at 76 
years of age, leaving 5 children, Cortlandt, Matthew, 
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Deirdre, Leslie, and Quentin, and 4 grandchildren; 
and 
(12) leaves a rich legacy that will continue to 
benefit present and future generations. 
SEC. 3. DESIGNATION OF MT. ANDREA LAWRENCE. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Peak 12,240 (located 0.6 miles 
northeast of Donahue Peak on the northern border of the 
Ansel Adams Wilderness and Yosemite National Park 
(UTM coordinates Zone 11, 304428 E, 4183631 N)) shall 
be known and designated as ‘‘Mt. Andrea Lawrence’’. 
(b) REFERENCES.—Any reference in a law, map, reg-
ulation, document, record, or other paper of the United 
States to the peak described in subsection (a) shall be con-
sidered to be a reference to ‘‘Mt. Andrea Lawrence’’. 
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