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H.R. 1723: Caribbean National Forest Act of 2003

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H.R. 1723: Caribbean National Forest Act of 2003

108th Congress · introduced 2003-04-10 · Public Lands and Natural Resources · Latest: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H2354)

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Follow this bill, step by step

  1. Where it came from: introduced 2003-04-10 · official record
  2. Who proposed it: Resident Commissioner Acevedo-Vila, Anibal [D-PR-At Large] · what a sponsor is
  3. What happened next: no floor votes in our records yet. Why?
  4. Where it stands now: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H2354) Not final yet: this can still change. We check for updates every day.
  5. If it becomes law and spends money: follow the money to money laws, then agencies and contracts and grants.

What does this mean?

Official title

Caribbean National Forest Act of 2003

Plain summary

Caribbean National Forest Act of 2003 - Designates approximately 10,000 acres of land in the Caribbean National Forest/Luquillo Experimental Forest in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico as the El Toro Wilderness and as a component of the National Wilderness Preservation System. Provides that designation of the Wilderness shall not be construed to prevent within the area's boundaries: (1) installation and maintenance of hydrologic, meteorological, climatological, or atmospheric data collection and transmission facilities when they are essential to the scientific research purposes of the Luquillo Experimental Forest; (2) construction and maintenance of nesting structures, observation blinds, and population monitoring platforms for threatened and endangered species; or (3) construction and maintenance of trails to such facilities as necessary for research purposes and the recovery of such species.

Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in House), quoted unchanged (nonpartisan). Read the source.

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Official text

Caribbean National Forest Act of 2003

Source: Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in House)

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Officials and money

Sponsor: Resident Commissioner Acevedo-Vila, Anibal [D-PR-At Large] · 25 cosponsors

Cost estimate: No cost estimate published yet.

Cosponsors on this site

Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Ed Case (D-HI), Edward J. Markey (D-MA), Betty McCollum (D-MN), Nydia M. Velázquez (D-NY)

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Sources

Record fed-us-cong108-hr1723 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong108 · updated 2026-11-15 by psicol fed-bills-cong108