[Congressional Bills 112th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1765 Introduced in House (IH)]

112th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1765

   To amend the Migratory Bird Treaty Act to authorize hunting under 
                         certain circumstances.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 5, 2011

 Mr. Boustany introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                     Committee on Natural Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
   To amend the Migratory Bird Treaty Act to authorize hunting under 
                         certain circumstances.

    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 ``Migratory Bird Treaty Amendment Act 
of 2011''.

SEC. 2. MIGRATORY BIRDS.

    Section 3 of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act (16 U.S.C. 704) is 
amended by adding at the end the following:
    ``(c) Exception.--Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, 
subsection (b) shall not apply to an agricultural producer, or a hunter 
with the permission of the agricultural producer, if--
            ``(1) the manipulation occurs on land of the agricultural 
        producer on which a crop during the current or immediately 
        preceding crop year was not harvestable due to a natural 
        disaster, as determined by the Secretary of Agriculture; and
            ``(2) a local representative of the Secretary of 
        Agriculture confirms that--
                    ``(A) the crop has been destroyed; and
                    ``(B) it would not be economically practicable to 
                harvest the crop.''.
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