[Congressional Bills 104th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 185 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







104th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 185

  To transfer the Fish Farming Experimental Laboratory in Stuttgart, 
  Arkansas, to the Department of Agriculture, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            January 9, 1995

  Mr. Bumpers introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
       referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works

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                                 A BILL


 
  To transfer the Fish Farming Experimental Laboratory in Stuttgart, 
  Arkansas, to the Department of Agriculture, 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. SHORT TITLE.

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

SEC. 2. TRANSFER OF FUNCTIONS TO THE SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE.

    (a) Title of Public Law 85-342.--The title of Public Law 85-342 (16 
U.S.C. 778 et seq.) is amended by striking ``Secretary of the 
Interior'' and inserting ``Secretary of Agriculture''.
    (b) 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'' and inserting ``Secretary of 
        Agriculture is authorized and directed'';
            (2) by striking ``station and stations'' and inserting ``1 
        or more centers''; and
            (3) in paragraph (5), by striking ``Department of 
        Agriculture'' and inserting ``Secretary of the Interior''.
    (c) Authority.--Section 2 of Public Law 85-342 (16 U.S.C. 778a) is 
amended by striking ``, the Secretary'' and all that follows through 
``authorized'' and inserting ``, the Secretary of Agriculture is 
authorized''.
    (d) 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 FISH FARMING EXPERIMENTAL LABORATORY TO DEPARTMENT 
              OF AGRICULTURE.

    (a) Designation of Stuttgart National Aquaculture Research 
Center.--
            (1) In general.--The Fish Farming Experimental Laboratory 
        in Stuttgart, Arkansas, shall be known and designated as the 
        ``Stuttgart 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 deemed to be a 
        reference to the ``Stuttgart National Aquaculture Research 
        Center''.
    (b) Transfer of Laboratory to the Department of Agriculture.--
Subject to section 1531 of title 31, United States Code, not later than 
90 days after the date of enactment of this Act, there are transferred 
to the Department 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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