[Congressional Bills 108th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4869 Introduced in House (IH)]






108th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 4869

    To amend the Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972 to authorize 
appropriations for the John H. Prescott Marine Mammal Rescue Assistance 
                 Grant Program, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 20, 2004

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

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                                 A BILL


 
    To amend the Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972 to authorize 
appropriations for the John H. Prescott Marine Mammal Rescue Assistance 
                 Grant Program, and for other purposes.

    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 ``Prescott Marine Mammal Stranding 
Program Amendments of 2004''.

SEC. 2. AUTHORIZATIONS OF APPROPRIATIONS FOR JOHN H. PRESCOTT MARINE 
              MAMMAL RESCUE ASSISTANCE GRANT PROGRAM.

    (a) Grant Program.--Section 408(h) of the Marine Mammal Protection 
Act of 1972 (16 U.S.C. 1421f-1(h)) is amended by striking ``fiscal 
years 2001 through 2003'' and inserting ``fiscal years 2005 through 
2010''.
    (b) Marine Mammal Unusual Mortality Event Fund.--Section 409(3) of 
such Act (16 U.S.C. 1421g(3)) is amended by striking ``$500,000 for 
fiscal year 1993'' and inserting ``$125,000 for each of fiscal years 
2005 through 2010''.
    (c) Administrative Costs and Expenses.--Section 408 of such Act (16 
U.S.C. 1421f-1) is amended--
            (1) by adding at the end of subsection (a)(1) the 
        following: ``All funds available to implement this section 
        shall be distributed to eligible stranding network participants 
        for the purposes set forth in this paragraph, except as 
        provided in subsection (f).''; and
            (2) by amending subsection (f) to read as follows:
    ``(f) Administrative Costs and Expenses.--Of the amounts available 
each fiscal year to carry out this section, the Secretary may expend 
not more than 6 percent or $80,000, whichever is greater, to pay the 
administrative costs and administrative expenses to implement the grant 
program under subsection (a). Any such funds retained by the Secretary 
for a fiscal year for such costs and expenses that are not used for 
such costs and expenses before the end of the fiscal year shall be 
provided as grants under subsection (a).''.
    (d) Contributions.--Section 408 of such Act (16 U.S.C. 1421f-1) is 
further amended by adding at the end the following:
    ``(i) Contributions.--For purposes of carrying out this section, 
the Secretary may solicit, accept, receive, hold, administer, and use 
gifts, devises, and bequests.''.
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