[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4477 Introduced in House (IH)]

103d CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 4477

 To amend the Act commonly referred to as the ``Dingell-Johnson Sport 
  Fish Restoration Act'' to provide funding for recreational boating 
                safety programs, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 24, 1994

 Mr. Studds (for himself, Mr. Tauzin, Mr. Fields of Texas, Mr. Coble, 
Mr. Bateman,  and Mrs. Fowler) introduced the following bill; which was 
       referred to the Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend the Act commonly referred to as the ``Dingell-Johnson Sport 
  Fish Restoration Act'' to provide funding for recreational boating 
                safety programs, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. BOATING SAFETY GRANTS.

    (a) Transfer of Amounts for State Boating Safety Programs.--
            (1) Transfers.--Section 4(b) of the Act of August 9, 1950 
        (16 U.S.C. 777c(b); commonly referred to as the ``Dingell-
        Johnson Sport Fish Restoration Act''), is amended to read as 
        follows:
    ``(b)(1) Of the balance of each annual appropriation remaining 
after making the distribution under subsection (a), an amount equal to 
$15,000,000 for fiscal year 1995, $52,500,000 for fiscal year 1996, 
$59,000,000 for fiscal year 1997, and $64,000,000 for each of fiscal 
years 1998 and 1999, shall, subject to paragraph (2), be used as 
follows:
            ``(A) A sum equal to $7,500,000 of the amount available for 
        fiscal year 1995, and a sum equal to $10,000,000 of the amount 
        available for each of fiscal years 1996 and 1997, shall be 
        available for use by the Secretary of the Interior for grants 
        under section 5604(c) of the Clean Vessel Act of 1992. Any 
        portion of such a sum available for a fiscal year that is not 
        obligated for those grants before the end of the following 
        fiscal year shall be transferred to the Secretary of 
        Transportation and shall be expended by the Secretary of 
        Transportation for State recreational boating safety programs 
        under section 13106 of title 46, United States Code.
            ``(B) $7,500,000 of the amount available for fiscal year 
        1995, $42,500,000 of the amount available for fiscal year 1996, 
        $49,000,000 of the amount available for fiscal year 1997, and 
        $64,000,000 of the amount available for each of fiscal years 
        1998 and 1999, shall be transferred to the Secretary of 
        Transportation and shall be expended by the Secretary of 
        Transportation for recreational boating safety programs under 
        section 13106 of title 46, United States Code.
    ``(2)(A) Beginning with fiscal year 1996, the amount transferred 
under paragraph (1)(B) for a fiscal year shall be reduced by the lesser 
of--
            ``(i) the amount appropriated for that fiscal year from the 
        Boat Safety Account in the Aquatic Resources Trust Fund 
        established under section 9504 of the Internal Revenue Code of 
        1986 to carry out the purposes of section 13106 of title 46, 
        United States Code; or
            ``(ii) $35,000,000.
    ``(B) The amount of any reduction under subparagraph (A) shall be 
apportioned among the several States under subsection (d) by the 
Secretary of the Interior.''.
            (2) Conforming amendment.--Section 5604(c)(1) of the Clean 
        Vessel Act of 1992 (33 U.S.C. 1322 note) is amended by striking 
        ``section 4(b)(2) of the Act of August 9, 1950 (16 U.S.C. 
        777c(b)(2), as amended by this Act)'' and inserting ``section 
        4(b)(1) of the Act of August 9, 1950 (16 U.S.C. 777c(b)(1))''.
    (b) Expenditure of Amounts for State Recreational Boating Safety 
Programs.--Section 13106 of title 46, United States Code, is amended--
            (1) in subsection (a)(1) by striking the first sentence and 
        inserting the following: ``Subject to paragraph (2), the 
        Secretary shall expend in each fiscal year for State 
        recreational boating safety programs authorized under this 
        section an amount equal to the total of the amount appropriated 
        from the Boat Safety Account established under section 
        9503(c)(4) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (26 U.S.C. 
        9503(c)(4)) for that fiscal year and the amount transferred to 
        the Secretary under section 4(b)(1) of the Act of August 9, 
        1950 (16 U.S.C. 777c(b)(1)) in that fiscal year.''; and
            (2) by striking subsection (c).

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