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<meta><dc:title>118 HR 5103 ENR: To require the Director of the Office of Management and Budget to approve or deny spend plans within a certain amount of time, and for other purposes.</dc:title>
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<preface><dc:type>H. R.</dc:type><docNumber>5103</docNumber>

<congress style="-uslm-lc:I665502" value="118">One Hundred Eighteenth Congress of the United States of America</congress><session style="-uslm-lc:I665503" value="2">A T T  H  E S  E  C  O  N  D S  E  S  S  I  O  N</session>
<enrolledDateline style="-uslm-lc:I665504">Begun and held at the City of Washington on Wednesday, the third day of January, two thousand and twenty-four</enrolledDateline>
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<docTitle class="centered fontsize18" style="-uslm-lc:I665505">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="centered fontsize8" style="-uslm-lc:I665511">To require the Director of the Office of Management and Budget to approve or deny spend plans within a certain amount of time, and for other purposes.<?GPOvSpace 08?></officialTitle>
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<enactingFormula style="-uslm-lc:I650120"><i>  Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa­tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,</i></enactingFormula>
<section id="d9077e62" identifier="/us/bill/118/hr/5103/s1" style="-uslm-lc:I650146"><num class="bold" value="1">SECTION 1. </num><heading>SHORT TITLE.</heading><content style="-uslm-lc:I650120">  This Act may be cited as the “<shortTitle role="act">Fishery Improvement to Streamline untimely regulatory Hurdles post Emergency Situation Act</shortTitle>” or the “<shortTitle role="act">FISHES Act</shortTitle>”.</content></section>
<section id="d9077e75" identifier="/us/bill/118/hr/5103/s2" role="instruction" style="-uslm-lc:I650141"><num class="fontsize12" value="2">SEC. 2. </num><heading>SPEND PLANS.</heading><chapeau class="indentUp0 firstIndent0 fontsize10" id="x5157d8fa-c41a-11ef-bc3c-0954d4eeac79" style="-uslm-lc:I650120">  Section 312(a)(6) of the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act (<ref href="/us/usc/t16/s1861a/a/6">16 U.S.C. 1861a(a)(6)</ref>) <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction>—</chapeau><paragraph class="firstIndent0 fontsize10" id="y5157d8fb-c41a-11ef-bc3c-0954d4eeac79" identifier="/us/bill/118/hr/5103/s2/1" style="-uslm-lc:I650122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="1">(1) </num><content>in subparagraph (D), to read as follows:<quotedContent><subparagraph class="firstIndent0 fontsize10" id="y5158000c-c41a-11ef-bc3c-0954d4eeac79" style="-uslm-lc:I650124"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="D">“(D) </num><heading class="fontsize10 smallCaps">Spend plans<inline class="noSmallCaps">.—</inline></heading><clause class="firstIndent0 fontsize10" id="y5158000d-c41a-11ef-bc3c-0954d4eeac79" style="-uslm-lc:I650126"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="i">“(i) </num><heading class="fontsize10 smallCaps">In general<inline class="noSmallCaps">.—</inline></heading><chapeau>To receive an allocation from funds available under paragraph (9), a requester with an affirmative fishery resource disaster determination shall submit a spend plan to the Secretary, not more than 120 days after receiving notification that funds are available, that shall include the following information, if applicable:</chapeau><subclause class="firstIndent0 fontsize10" id="y5158000e-c41a-11ef-bc3c-0954d4eeac79" style="-uslm-lc:I650128"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="I">“(I) </num><content>Objectives and outcomes, with an emphasis on addressing the factors contributing to the fishery resource disaster and minimizing future uninsured losses, if applicable.</content></subclause><subclause class="firstIndent0 fontsize10" id="y5158000f-c41a-11ef-bc3c-0954d4eeac79" style="-uslm-lc:I650128"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="II">“(II) </num><content>Statement of work.</content></subclause><subclause class="firstIndent0 fontsize10" id="y51580010-c41a-11ef-bc3c-0954d4eeac79" style="-uslm-lc:I650128"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="III">“(III) </num><content>Budget details.</content></subclause></clause><clause class="firstIndent0 fontsize10" id="y51580011-c41a-11ef-bc3c-0954d4eeac79" style="-uslm-lc:I650126"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="ii">“(ii) </num><heading class="fontsize10 smallCaps">Review<inline class="noSmallCaps">.—</inline></heading><subclause class="firstIndent0 fontsize10" id="y51580012-c41a-11ef-bc3c-0954d4eeac79" style="-uslm-lc:I650128"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="I">“(I) </num><heading class="fontsize10 smallCaps">In general<inline class="noSmallCaps">.—</inline></heading><content>The Secretary shall review a spend plan submitted under clause (i) to determine if it is complete and provide notice within 10 days.</content></subclause><subclause class="firstIndent0 fontsize10" id="y51580013-c41a-11ef-bc3c-0954d4eeac79" style="-uslm-lc:I650128"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="II">“(II) </num><heading class="fontsize10 smallCaps">Incomplete spend plan<inline class="noSmallCaps">.—</inline></heading><content>If the Secretary determines that a spend plan submitted under clause (i) is not complete, when providing the notice required by subclause (I), the Secretary shall provide a detailed description of the information that is necessary for the spend plan to be determined complete.”</content></subclause></clause></subparagraph></quotedContent>; and</content></paragraph><paragraph class="firstIndent0 fontsize10" id="y51580014-c41a-11ef-bc3c-0954d4eeac79" identifier="/us/bill/118/hr/5103/s2/2" style="-uslm-lc:I650122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="2">(2) </num><content>in subparagraph (F)(i), to read as follows:<quotedContent><clause class="indentUp2 firstIndent0 fontsize10" id="y51580015-c41a-11ef-bc3c-0954d4eeac79" style="-uslm-lc:I650126"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="i">“(i) </num><heading class="fontsize10 smallCaps">Availability<inline class="noSmallCaps">.—</inline></heading><subclause class="firstIndent0 fontsize10" id="y51580016-c41a-11ef-bc3c-0954d4eeac79" style="-uslm-lc:I650128"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="I">“(I) </num><heading class="fontsize10 smallCaps">Timeline<inline class="noSmallCaps">.—</inline></heading><content>Funds shall be made available to grantees not later than 90 days after the date the Secretary receives a complete spend plan.</content></subclause><subclause class="firstIndent0 fontsize10" id="y51580017-c41a-11ef-bc3c-0954d4eeac79" style="-uslm-lc:I650128"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="II">“(II) </num><heading class="fontsize10 smallCaps">Review of completed spend plan and apportionment of funds<inline class="noSmallCaps">.—</inline></heading><content>If so requested, the Director of the Office of Management and Budget may review a completed spend plan concurrently with the Secretary. The Director of the Office of Management and Budget may not delay the timeline described in subclause (I).”</content></subclause></clause></quotedContent>.</content></paragraph></section>
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<signature><role style="-uslm-lc:I650114">Speaker of the House of Representatives.</role></signature>
<signature><role style="-uslm-lc:I650114">Vice President of the United States and  President of the Senate.</role></signature>
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