A bill to establish the Oklahoma City National Memorial as a unit of the National Park System; to designate the Oklahoma City Memorial Trust, and for other purposes.
Oklahoma City National Memorial Act of 1997 - Establishes: (1) the Oklahoma City National Memorial in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, as a National Park System unit; and (2) the Oklahoma City National Memorial Trust, as a wholly owned Government corporation, to administer the operation, maintenance, management, and interpretation of the Memorial.
Requires the Trust to develop a cooperative agreement for management of lands, operations, and facilities within the Memorial. Requires the Secretary of the Interior and the Trust to enter into such agreement pursuant to which the Secretary shall: (1) provide technical assistance for the planning, preservation, maintenance, management, and interpretation of the Memorial; and (2) provide such maintenance, interpretation, curatorial management, and general management as mutually agreed.
Authorizes appropriations. Requires amounts appropriated in any fiscal year to carry out this Act to be expended only on a matching basis in a ratio of at least one non-Federal dollar to every Federal dollar.
Requires, before the construction of the Memorial, the Administrator of the General Services Administration to exchange, sell, lease, donate, or otherwise dispose of the site of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building, or a portion thereof, to the Trust. Exempts such disposal from: (1) the Public Buildings Act of 1959; (2) the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949; and (3) any other Federal law establishing requirements or procedures for Federal property disposal.
Directs the General Accounting Office, six years after the first meeting of the Trust's Board of Directors, to study and report to specified congressional committees on the Trust's activities.
Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 182.
Held at the desk.
By Senator Murkowski from Committee on Energy and Natural Resources filed written report. Report No. 105-71.
By Senator Murkowski from Committee on Energy and Natural Resources filed written report. Report No. 105-71.
Mr. Hansen moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended.
Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H7642-7646)
DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate.
At the conclusion of debate, the Speaker put the question on the motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill and announced that, by voice vote, the Motion was agreed to. Mr. Condit objected to the vote on grounds that a quorum was not present and made a point of order that a quorum was not present. Further proceedings were postponed and the point of no quourum was withdrawn.
Considered as unfinished business. (consideration: CR H7713-7714)
Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by recorded vote (2/3 required): 414 - 7 (Roll no. 423).
Roll Call #423 (House)On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by recorded vote (2/3 required): 414 - 7 (Roll no. 423).
Enacted as Public Law 105-58
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Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
Message on House action received in Senate and at desk: House amendment to Senate bill.
Resolving differences -- Senate actions: Senate agreed to the House amendment by Unanimous Consent.(consideration: CR S9914)
Senate agreed to the House amendment by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S9914)
Presented to President.
Presented to President.
Signed by President.
Signed by President.
Became Public Law No: 105-58.
Became Public Law No: 105-58.