[Congressional Bills 112th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 3543 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

112th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 3543

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 SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           September 13, 2012

 Mr. Cornyn (for himself and Mrs. Hutchison) introduced the following 
bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment 
                            and Public Works

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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.) and 
section 42 of title 18, United States Code, 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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