I spoke with Cheryl Roberts this afternoon.

Congress has recessed without considering this bill. They needed to get back to their districts to campaign.

They are scheduled to reconvene on Tuesday, November 12. Not sure how soon this bill will come up after that.

However, please continue to be pro-active in writing your Representatives about this bill.

There is already a mechanism in place passed by Congress to convey lighthouses to public entiies. This provision only serves to circumvent this mechanism.

Cheryl believes that the local representative Walter B. Jones got this amendment because the County would not meet the standards set by the lighthouse act for receiving the lighthouse.

She will be sending out another email this weekend.

If you'd like to be on their email list, go to http://www.outer-banks.com/lighthouse-society/index.cfm