[Congressional Bills 109th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 797 Introduced in Senate (IS)]






109th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                  S. 797

 To amend the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act 
  to clarify the status of certain communities in the western Alaska 
                  community development quota program.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             April 14, 2005

 Ms. Murkowski (for herself and Mr. Stevens) introduced the following 
 bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, 
                      Science, and Transportation

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act 
  to clarify the status of certain communities in the western Alaska 
                  community development quota program.

    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 ``CDQ Community Preservation Act''.

SEC. 2. WESTERN ALASKA COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT QUOTA PROGRAM.

    (a) Eligible Communities.--Section 305(i)(1) of the Magnuson-
Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act (16 U.S.C. 1855(i)) is 
amended adding at the end the following:
            ``(E) A community shall be eligible to participate in the 
        western Alaska community development quota program under 
        subparagraph (A) if the community was--
                    ``(i) listed in table 7 to part 679 of title 50, 
                Code of Federal Regulations, as in effect on January 1, 
                2004; or
                    ``(ii) approved by the National Marine Fisheries 
                Service on April 19, 1999.''.
    (b) Conforming Amendment.--Such section is further amended, in 
paragraph (B), by striking ``To'' and inserting, ``Except as provided 
in subparagraph (E), to''.
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