[Congressional Bills 107th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 581 Referred in Senate (RFS)]

  1st Session
                                H. R. 581


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                              May 10, 2001

 Received; read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and 
                              Public Works

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                                 AN ACT


 
    To authorize the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of 
 Agriculture to use funds appropriated for wildland fire management in 
the Department of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 
2001, to reimburse the United States Fish and Wildlife Service and the 
    National Marine Fisheries Service to facilitate the interagency 
   cooperation required under the Endangered Species Act of 1973 in 
               connection with wildland fire management.

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

SECTION 1. USE OF WILDLAND FIRE MANAGEMENT FUNDS TO FACILITATE 
              COMPLIANCE WITH ENDANGERED SPECIES ACT CONSULTATION 
              REQUIREMENTS.

    The Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture may 
use funds appropriated for wildland fire management in the Department 
of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2001 (Public 
Law 106-291; 114 Stat. 922), to reimburse the United States Fish and 
Wildlife Service and the National Marine Fisheries Service for the 
costs of carrying out their responsibilities under the Endangered 
Species Act of 1973 (16 U.S.C. 1531 et seq.) to consult and conference, 
as required by section 7 of such Act (16 U.S.C. 1536), in connection 
with wildland fire management activities.

SEC. 2. SENSE OF CONGRESS; REQUIREMENT REGARDING NOTICE.

    (a) Purchase of American-Made Equipment and Products.--In the case 
of any equipment or products that may be authorized to be purchased 
using funds provided under section 1, it is the sense of the Congress 
that entities receiving the funds should, in expending the funds, 
purchase only American-made equipment and products.
    (b) Notice to Recipients of Funds.--In expending funds provided 
under section 1, the head of each Federal agency receiving such funds 
shall provide to each recipient of the funds a notice describing the 
statement made in subsection (a) by the Congress.
    (c) Notice of Report.--Any entity which receives funds under 
section 1 shall report any expenditures on foreign-made items to the 
Congress within 180 days of the expenditure.

            Passed the House of Representatives May 9, 2001.

            Attest:

                                                 JEFF TRANDAHL,

                                                                 Clerk.