[Congressional Bills 111th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6394 Introduced in House (IH)]

111th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 6394

 To amend the Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972 to allow transport, 
   purchase, sale, and export of pelts of Southcentral and Southeast 
  Alaska northern sea otters that are taken for subsistence purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 29, 2010

 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 Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972 to allow transport, 
   purchase, sale, and export of pelts of Southcentral and Southeast 
  Alaska northern sea otters that are taken for subsistence purposes.

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

SECTION 1. TRANSPORT, PURCHASE, SALE, AND EXPORT OF PELTS OF 
              SOUTHCENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST ALASKA NORTHERN SEA OTTERS 
              TAKEN FOR SUBSISTENCE PURPOSES.

    Section 102 of the Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972 (16 U.S.C. 
1372) is amended by adding at the end the following:
    ``(g) Nothing in this Act prohibits the transport, purchase, sale, 
export of, or any offer to purchase, sell, or export, any pelt of an 
otter from the Southcentral or Southeast Alaska stock of northern sea 
otters that is taken for subsistence purposes in accordance with 
section 101(b)(1).''.
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