[Congressional Bills 107th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1661 Introduced in House (IH)]







107th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1661

   To extend indefinitely the authority of the States of Washington, 
  Oregon, and California to manage a Dungeness crab fishery until the 
 effective date of a fishery management plan for the fishery under the 
       Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 1, 2001

Mr. George Miller of California (for himself and Mr. Walden of Oregon) 
 introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
                               Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
   To extend indefinitely the authority of the States of Washington, 
  Oregon, and California to manage a Dungeness crab fishery until the 
 effective date of a fishery management plan for the fishery under the 
       Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act.

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

SECTION 1. EXTENSION OF AUTHORITY OF STATES OF WASHINGTON, OREGON, AND 
              CALIFORNIA TO MANAGE DUNGENESS CRAB FISHERY.

    Section 203 of the Act entitled ``An Act to approve a governing 
international fishery agreement between the United States and the 
Republic of Poland, and for other purposes'', approved November 13, 
1998 (Public Law 105-384; 16 U.S.C. 1856 note), is amended by striking 
subsection (i).
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