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To direct the Secretary of the Navy to close the strategic homeport at Staten Island, New York, and to provide for a moratorium, pending a reassessment, of the strategic homeporting program of the…

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To direct the Secretary of the Navy to close the strategic homeport at Staten Island, New York, and to provide for a moratorium, pending a reassessment, of the strategic homeporting program of the Department of the Navy.

Introduced: May 1, 1990 See on congress.gov
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Jul 18, 1990
Unfavorable Executive Comment Received from DOD.
May 4, 1990
Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Installations and Facilities.
May 4, 1990
Executive Comment Requested from DOD.
May 1, 1990
Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
May 1, 1990
Introduced in House
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 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Directs the Secretary of the Navy to close the Stapleton strategic homeport at Staten Island, New York, to designate such facility as excess, and to provide for its transfer or disposal.

Directs the Secretary to: (1) cease all military construction or operations of current naval strategic homeports in the United States; and (2) provide a moratorium on such operations pending an assessment by the Secretary of their cost-effectiveness.

What's happening now July 18, 1990

Unfavorable Executive Comment Received from DOD.

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 Committees of jurisdiction 2
 Cosponsors 1
All 1 Democratic 1
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Durbin, Richard J.
Illinois · May 8, 1990
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U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 4684: To direct the Secretary of the Navy to close the strategic homeport at Staten Island, New York, and to provide for a moratorium, pending a reassessment, of the strategic homeporting program of the Department of the Navy.. 101st Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/101-HR-4684/
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"H.R. 4684: To direct the Secretary of the Navy to close the strategic homeport at Staten Island, New York, and to provide for a moratorium, pending a reassessment, of the strategic homeporting program of the Department of the Navy.." 101st Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/101-HR-4684/.
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H.R. 4684, 101st Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/101-HR-4684/.
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