[Congressional Bills 106th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 501 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







106th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 501

  To address resource management issues in Glacier Bay National Park, 
                                Alaska.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             March 2, 1999

 Mr. Murkowski (for himself and Mr. Stevens) introduced the following 
bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and 
                           Natural Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
  To address resource management issues in Glacier Bay National Park, 
                                Alaska.

    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 ``Glacier Bay Fisheries Act''.

SEC. 2. RESOURCE HARVESTING.

    (a) In Glacier Bay National Park, the Secretary of the Interior 
shall accommodate--
                    (1) the conduct of subsistence fishing and 
                gathering under title VIII of the Alaska National 
                Interest Lands Conservation Act (16 U.S.C. 3111 et. 
                seq.); and
                    (2) the conduct by the State of Alaska, in 
                accordance with the principles of sustained yield, of 
                marine commercial fisheries, except fishing for 
                Dungeness crab in the waters of the Beardslee Islands 
                and upper Dundas Bay.

SEC. 3. CLAIMS FOR LOST EARNINGS.

    Section 3(g) of Public Law 91-383 (16 U.S.C. 1a-2(g)) is amended--
            (1) in paragraph (1), by striking ``and'' at the end;
            (2) in paragraph (2), by striking the period at the end and 
        inserting ``; and''; and
            (3) by inserting after paragraph (2) the following:
            ``(3) to pay an aggregate of not more than $2,000,000 per 
        fiscal year in actual and punitive damages to persons that, at 
        any time after January 1, 1999, suffered or suffer a loss in 
        earnings from commercial fisheries legally conducted in the 
        marine waters of Glacier Bay National Park, due to any action 
        by an officer, employee, or agent of any Federal department or 
        agency, that interferes with any person legally fishing or 
        attempting to fish in such commercial fisheries.''.
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