[Congressional Bills 111th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5672 Introduced in House (IH)]

111th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5672

  To protect the use of traditional hunting and fishing equipment on 
 Federal lands and to prevent unnecessary and unwarranted restrictions 
      on the implements and equipment used by hunting and fishing 
                              communities.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              July 1, 2010

 Mr. Broun of Georgia (for himself, Mr. Boren, Mr. Bishop of Utah, Mr. 
Altmire, Mr. Boozman, Mr. Childers, Mr. Miller of Florida, Mr. Rehberg, 
  Mr. Ross, and Mr. Scalise) introduced the following bill; which was 
referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the 
Committee on Agriculture, for a period to be subsequently determined by 
the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall 
           within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned

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                                 A BILL


 
  To protect the use of traditional hunting and fishing equipment on 
 Federal lands and to prevent unnecessary and unwarranted restrictions 
      on the implements and equipment used by hunting and fishing 
                              communities.

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

SECTION 1. LIMITATION ON USE OF FUNDS.

    (a) Limitation.--Except as provided by subsection (b), no Federal 
funds appropriated or made available to the Department of the Interior 
or the Department of Agriculture, and any of their agencies or bureaus, 
may be used to prohibit, limit, or control, based on material 
composition, the type of firearm ammunition or fishing tackle used on 
Federal lands managed by the Department of the Interior or the 
Department of Agriculture.
    (b) Exceptions.--Nothing in section 1 shall affect the use of 
Federal funds to continue to prohibit, limit or control, based on 
material composition, the type of firearm ammunition or fishing tackle 
used for hunting and fishing--
            (1) to the extent that a specific regulation is in effect 
        on the date of the enactment of this Act; or
            (2) if the best scientific evidence available demonstrates 
        that the material composition of the ammunition or fishing 
        tackle to be prohibited, limited, or controlled is having or is 
        likely to have a substantially detrimental effect on the health 
        of a local fish or wildlife population.
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