Canal Zone Biological Area (Barro Colorado Island Facility of the Tropical Research Institute of the Smithsonian Institution)

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Summary

Congressional report accompanying bill (S. 1031). The Committee on Rules and Administration was referred the bill (S. 1031) to increase the limit on appropriations for the Canal Zone Biological Area (CZBA) from $350,000 to $600,000. The committee recommended that the bill pass with an amendment. The amendment would increase the limit from $350,000 to $750,000 upon request from Smithsonian secretary Ripley.

Subject

  • Ripley, Sidney Dillon 1913-2001
  • United States Congress Senate
  • Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI)

Category

Smithsonian Legal Documents

Legal document information

  • Title 48, Territories and Insular Possessions
  • Report - Congressional

Contained within

Senate Report No. 95-108 (Book)

Contact information

Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu

Date

04/28/1977

Topic

  • Rain forest ecology
  • Amendments (Parliamentary practice)
  • Barro Colorado Island (Panama)

Place

  • Barro Colorado Nature Monument (Panama)
  • Barro Colorado Island (Panama)

Form/Genre

Report - Congressional

Physical description

Number of pages: 9; Page Numbers: 1-9

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