[Congressional Bills 104th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2706 Introduced in House (IH)]







104th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2706

   To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to accept from a State 
donations of services of State employees to perform hunting management 
   functions in a National Wildlife Refuge in a period of Government 
                          budgetary shutdown.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            December 5, 1995

 Mrs. Lincoln introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                         Committee on Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
   To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to accept from a State 
donations of services of State employees to perform hunting management 
   functions in a National Wildlife Refuge in a period of Government 
                          budgetary shutdown.

    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 ``National Wildlife Refuge Management 
Contingency Act of 1995''.

SEC. 2. AUTHORITY OF SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR TO ACCEPT STATE 
              DONATIONS OF STATE EMPLOYEE SERVICES TO PERFORM HUNTING 
              MANAGEMENT FUNCTIONS.

    (a) In General.--The Secretary shall accept from any qualified 
State donations of services of State employees to perform in a National 
Wildlife Refuge, in a period of Government budgetary shutdown, hunting 
management functions otherwise authorized to be performed by Department 
of Interior personnel.
    (b) Limitations.--An employee of a State may perform functions 
under this section only--
            (1) within areas of a National Wildlife Refuge that are 
        located in the State; and
            (2) in accordance with an agreement entered into by the 
        Secretary and the Governor of the State under subsection (c).
    (c) Agreements.--
            (1) In general.--For purposes of this section, the 
        Secretary may enter into an agreement in accordance with this 
        subsection with the Governor of any State in which is located 
        any part of a National Wildlife Refuge.
            (2) Terms conditions.--An agreement under this subsection 
        shall--
                    (A) require that each individual performing 
                functions under the agreement shall have--
                            (i) provisions to ensure resource and 
                        visitor protection acceptable under the 
                        standards of the United States Fish and 
                        Wildlife Service;
                            (ii) adequate safety training;
                            (iii) knowledge of the terrain in which the 
                        individual will perform those functions; and
                            (iv) knowledge of and adherence to Federal 
                        regulations relating to those functions; and
                    (B) specify other terms and conditions under which 
                a State employee may perform such functions.
    (d) Exclusion From Treatment as Federal Employees.--A State 
employee who performs functions under this section shall not be treated 
as a Federal employee for purposes of any Federal law relating to pay 
or benefits for Federal employees.
    (e) Definitions.--In this section--
            (1) the term ``Government budgetary shutdown'' means a 
        period during which there are no amounts available for the 
        operation of the National Wildlife Refuge System, because of--
                    (A) a failure to enact an annual appropriations 
                bill for the period for the Department of the Interior; 
                and
                    (B) a failure to enact a bill (or joint resolution) 
                continuing the availability of appropriations for the 
                Department of the Interior for a temporary period 
                pending the enactment of such an annual appropriations 
                bill;
            (2) the term ``qualified State'' means a State that has 
        entered into an agreement with the Secretary in accordance with 
        subsection (c); and
            (3) the term ``Secretary'' means the Secretary of the 
        Interior.
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