To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 5951 Riverdale Avenue in Bronx, New York, as the "Eliot L. Engel Post Office".
Summary
What This Bill Does
This bill would give the existing United States Postal Service facility at 5951 Riverdale Avenue in Bronx, New York the commemorative designation Eliot L. Engel Post Office. It also treats references to the facility in federal laws, maps, regulations, documents and other records as references to that same facility under the designated name. It does not create a second post office or change the street address. Only the introduced text is formally available.
Who Benefits and How
Residents using the facility gain a commemorative designation for their local post office. The United States Postal Service and federal records users gain clarity that the name Eliot L. Engel Post Office identifies the specified existing facility. These are honorary and administrative benefits, not payments or expanded service entitlements. The text gives no industry a material economic advantage and supplies no evidence of additional mail volume, jobs or commercial revenue.
Who Bears the Burden and How
The United States Postal Service must administer the designation and reference rule. Updating signs or records could involve routine costs, but the bill specifies no replacement deadline, appropriation or new reporting process. Postal customers face no new charge, eligibility requirement or private compliance duty. The text does not change delivery routes, service hours, staffing, postage rates, ownership or closure rules.
Key Provisions
- Provides the commemorative designation Eliot L. Engel Post Office for the facility at 5951 Riverdale Avenue in Bronx, New York.
- Requires existing references in federal laws, maps, regulations and other records to be read as references to the designated facility.
- Provides no new appropriation, construction project or postal-service expansion.
Evidence Chain:
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At a Glance
What This Bill Does
Name the existing United States Postal Service facility at 5951 Riverdale Avenue in Bronx, New York the Eliot L. Engel Post Office and preserve continuity of federal references to that facility.
Key Policy Areas
Postal Facilities, Commemorative Designations
Primary Purpose
Name the existing United States Postal Service facility at 5951 Riverdale Avenue in Bronx, New York the Eliot L. Engel Post Office and preserve continuity of federal references to that facility.
Policy Domains
To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 5951 Riverdale Avenue in Bronx, New York, as the "Eliot L. Engel Post Office".
Identified Gains
- Residents using the designated postal facility
- United States Postal Service
- Federal records users
Identified Costs
- United States Postal Service
Sponsors
Legislative Progress
ReportedOrdered to be Reported by the Yeas and Nays: 37 …
Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held
Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
Introduced in House
Mr. Torres of New York (for himself, Mr. Nadler, Mr. …
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Bill Structure & Actor Mappings
Who is "The Secretary" in each section?
- "designated_name"
- → Eliot L. Engel Post Office
- "facility_location"
- → 5951 Riverdale Avenue in Bronx, New York
- "facility_administrator"
- → United States Postal Service
Key Definitions
Terms defined in this bill
Federal references identify the specified existing postal facility under the commemorative name; the rule is not a transfer of property or an expansion of postal services.
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