[Congressional Bills 106th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4840 Introduced in House (IH)]







106th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 4840

 To reauthorize the Atlantic Coastal Fisheries Cooperative Management 
                                  Act.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 12, 2000

  Mr. Saxton introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                         Committee on Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
 To reauthorize the Atlantic Coastal Fisheries Cooperative Management 
                                  Act.

    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 ``Atlantic Coastal Fisheries Act of 
2000''.

SEC. 2. REAUTHORIZATION OF ATLANTIC COASTAL FISHERIES COOPERATIVE 
              MANAGEMENT ACT.

    (a) Authorization of Appropriations.--Section 811 of the Atlantic 
Coastal Fisheries Cooperative Management Act (16 U.S.C. 5108) is 
amended to read as follows:

``SEC. 811. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.

    ``(a) In General.--To carry out this title, there are authorized to 
be appropriated $10,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2001 through 2005.
    ``(b) Cooperative Statistics Program.--Amounts authorized under 
subsection (a) may be used by the Secretary to support the Commission's 
cooperative statistics program.''.
    (b) Technical Corrections.--
            (1) In general.--Such Act is amended--
                    (A) in section 802(3) (16 U.S.C. 5101(3)) by 
                striking ``such resources in'' and inserting ``such 
                resources is''; and
                    (B) by striking section 812 and the second section 
                811.
            (2) Amendments to repeal not affected.--The amendments made 
        by paragraph (1)(B) shall not affect any amendment or repeal 
        made by the sections struck by that paragraph.
            (3) Short title references.--Such Act is further amended by 
        striking ``Magnuson Fishery'' each place it appears and 
        inserting ``Magnuson-Stevens Fishery''.
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