[Congressional Bills 107th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1661 Referred in Senate (RFS)]

  1st Session
                                H. R. 1661


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                              June 7, 2001

    Received; read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, 
                      Science, and Transportation

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                                 AN ACT


 
   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).

            Passed the House of Representatives June 6, 2001.

            Attest:

                                                 JEFF TRANDAHL,

                                                                 Clerk.