[Congressional Bills 110th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2757 Introduced in House (IH)]







110th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2757

To amend the Acts popularly known as the Duck Stamp Act and the Wetland 
 Loan Act to reauthorize appropriations to promote the conservation of 
   migratory waterfowl and to offset or prevent the serious loss of 
    important wetlands and other waterfowl habitat essential to the 
        preservation of such waterfowl, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             June 15, 2007

   Mr. Thompson of California (for himself and Mr. Young of Alaska) 
 introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
                           Natural Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the Acts popularly known as the Duck Stamp Act and the Wetland 
 Loan Act to reauthorize appropriations to promote the conservation of 
   migratory waterfowl and to offset or prevent the serious loss of 
    important wetlands and other waterfowl habitat essential to the 
        preservation of such waterfowl, 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. AUTHORIZATION OF FUNDS FOR CONSERVATION OF MIGRATORY 
              WATERFOWL AND HABITAT.

    The first section of Public Law 87-383 (16 U.S.C. 715k-3), 
popularly known as the Wetlands Loan Act, is amended--
            (1) by striking ``for the period'' and all that follows 
        through the end of the sentence and inserting ``$40,000,000 for 
        each of fiscal years 2009 through 2018.''; and
            (2) by adding at the end the following: ``Funds 
        appropriated pursuant to this Act shall be treated as an 
        advance, without interest, to the migratory bird conservation 
        fund. Such appropriated funds, beginning on July 1, 2010, shall 
        be repaid to the Treasury out of the migratory bird 
        conservation fund. Such repayment shall be made in annual 
        amounts comprising the moneys accruing annually to such fund 
        that are attributable to the portion of the price of migratory 
        bird hunting stamps sold that year that is in excess of $15 per 
        stamp.''.

SEC. 2. PRICE OF DUCK STAMP.

    (a) Price of Stamp.--Section 2(b) of the Act of March 16, 1934 
(chapter 71; 16 U.S.C. 718b(b)), popularly known as the Duck Stamp Act, 
is amended to read as follows:
    ``(b) Price of Stamp.--A person authorized to sell stamps under 
this section shall collect, for each stamp sold--
            ``(1) $25 for a stamp for any of hunting years 2009 through 
        2016; and
            ``(2) $35 for a stamp for each hunting year after hunting 
        year 2016.''.
    (b) Limitation on Application.--This section shall not affect the 
application of section 2 of such Act before July 1, 2009.

SEC. 3. USE OF FUNDING.

    (a) Acquisition of Lands Only Upon Recommendation of Migratory Bird 
Conservation Commission.--Amounts appropriated after the date of the 
enactment of this Act under the first section of Public Law 87-383 (16 
U.S.C. 715k-3), popularly known as the Wetlands Loan Act, as amended by 
this Act, or from the migratory bird conservation fund, shall be 
available to acquire land only if the acquisition is recommended by the 
Migratory Bird Conservation Commission.
    (b) Designation of Authorized Priority General Public Uses.--Not 
later than one year after the acquisition of land with amounts referred 
to in subsection (a) that will be included in the National Wildlife 
Refuge System, the Secretary of the Interior, acting through the 
Director of the United States Fish and Wildlife Service, shall 
designate the priority general public uses (as that term is used in 
section 4(a)(3) of the National Wildlife Refuge System Administration 
Act of 1966 (16 U.S.C. 668dd(a)(3))) that will be authorized on such 
land, and the first date on which each designated use will be allowed.

SEC. 4. SENSE OF CONGRESS REGARDING THE EXPENDITURES OF FUNDS.

    It is the sense of Congress that--
            (1) the funds provided pursuant to the amendments made by 
        this Act--
                    (A) should be used for preserving and increasing 
                waterfowl populations in accordance with the goals and 
                objectives of the North American Waterfowl Management 
                Plan; and
                    (B) to that end, should be used to supplement and 
                not replace current conservation funding, including 
                funding for other Federal and State habitat 
                conservation programs; and
            (2) this Act should be implemented in a manner that helps 
        private landowners achieve their long-term land use objectives 
        in ways that enhance the conservation of wetlands and wildlife 
        habitat.
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