[Congressional Bills 112th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6007 Introduced in House (IH)]

112th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 6007

To exempt from the Lacey Act Amendments of 1981 certain water transfers 
  by the North Texas Municipal Water District and the Greater Texoma 
                           Utility Authority.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             June 21, 2012

  Mr. Hall (for himself, Mr. Sessions, and Mr. Sam Johnson of Texas) 
 introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
                           Natural Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
To exempt from the Lacey Act Amendments of 1981 certain water transfers 
  by the North Texas Municipal Water District and the Greater Texoma 
                           Utility Authority.

    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 ``North Texas Zebra Mussel Barrier Act 
of 2012''.

SEC. 2. COMPLIANCE WITH LACEY ACT.

    The Lacey Act Amendments of 1981 (16 U.S.C. 3371 et seq.) shall not 
apply with respect to any water transfer by the North Texas Municipal 
Water District and the Greater Texoma Utility Authority using only 
closed conveyance systems from the Lake Texoma raw water intake 
structure to treatment facilities at which all zebra mussels are 
extirpated and removed from the water transferred.
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