[Congressional Bills 104th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1205 Introduced in House (IH)]







104th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1205

   To transfer to the Secretary of Agriculture jurisdiction over the 
    research and experimentation program to develop methods for the 
 commercial production of fish in shallow reservoirs and flooded rice 
   lands and to transfer the experiment station in Marion, Alabama, 
                  established as part of the program.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 10, 1995

 Mr. Hilliard introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
      Committee on Resources, and in addition to the Committee on 
Agriculture, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, 
  in each case for considertion of such provisions as fall within the 
                jurisdiction of the committee concerned

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                                 A BILL


 
   To transfer to the Secretary of Agriculture jurisdiction over the 
    research and experimentation program to develop methods for the 
 commercial production of fish in shallow reservoirs and flooded rice 
   lands and to transfer the experiment station in Marion, Alabama, 
                  established as part of the program.

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

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Marion National Aquaculture Research 
Center Act of 1995''.

SEC. 2. TRANSFER OF FISH RESEARCH AND EXPERIMENTATION PROGRAM TO 
              SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE.

    (a) Authorization.--The first section of Public Law 85-342 (16 
U.S.C. 778) is amended--
            (1) by striking ``Secretary of the Interior'' and all that 
        follows through ``directed to'' and inserting ``Secretary of 
        Agriculture shall'';
            (2) by striking ``an experiment station or stations'' and 
        inserting ``one or more aquaculture research centers''; and
            (3) in paragraph (5), by striking ``Department of 
        Agriculture'' and inserting ``Secretary of the Interior''.
    (b) Authorities.--Section 2 of Public Law 85-342 (16 U.S.C. 778a) 
is amended--
            (1) by striking ``, the Secretary'' and all that follows 
        through ``authorized'' and inserting ``, the Secretary of 
        Agriculture is authorized''; and
            (2) by striking ``he'' both places it appears and inserting 
        ``the Secretary''.
    (c) Assistance.--Section 3 of Public Law 85-342 (16 U.S.C. 778b) is 
amended--
            (1) by striking ``Secretary of the Interior'' and inserting 
        ``Secretary of Agriculture''; and
            (2) by striking ``Department of Agriculture'' and inserting 
        ``Secretary of the Interior''.

SEC. 3. TRANSFER OF SOUTHEASTERN FISH CULTURAL LABORATORY, MARION, 
              ALABAMA, TO DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE.

    (a) Designation of Marion National Aquaculture Research Center.--
            (1) Designation.--The Southeastern Fish Cultural Laboratory 
        in Marion, Alabama, shall be known and designated as the 
        ``Marion National Aquaculture Research Center''.
            (2) References.--Any reference in a law, map, regulation, 
        document, paper, or other record of the United States to the 
        laboratory referred to in paragraph (1) shall be considered to 
        be a reference to the ``Marion National Aquaculture Research 
        Center''.
    (b) Transfer of Laboratory to Department of Agriculture.--Subject 
to section 1531 of title 31, United States Code, not later than 90 days 
after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of the 
Interior shall transfer to the Secretary of Agriculture--
            (1) the personnel employed in connection with the 
        laboratory referred to in subsection (a);
            (2) the assets, liabilities, contracts, and real and 
        personal property of the laboratory;
            (3) the records of the laboratory; and
            (4) the unexpended balance of appropriations, 
        authorizations, allocations and other funds employed, held, 
        arising from, available to, or to be made available in 
        connection with the laboratory.
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