One Hundred Eleventh Congress of the United States of America 2d SessionBegun and held at the City of Washington on Tuesday, the fifth day of January, two thousand and ten S. 1421 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES AN ACT To amend section 42 of title 18, United States Code, to prohibit the importation and shipment of certain species of carp.

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Short title

This Act may be cited as the Asian Carp Prevention and Control Act.

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Addition of species of carp to the list of injurious species that are prohibited from being imported or shipped

Section 42(a)(1) of title 18, United States Code, is amended by inserting of the bighead carp of the species Hypophthalmichthys nobilis; after Dreissena poly­mor­pha;.

Speaker of the House of Representatives Vice President of the United States and President of the Senate