[Congressional Bills 114th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3070 Referred in Senate (RFS)]

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114th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 3070


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                              June 8, 2016

    Received; read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, 
                      Science, and Transportation

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                                 AN ACT


 
 To authorize the Secretary of Commerce to permit striped bass fishing 
in the Exclusive Economic Zone transit zone between Montauk, New York, 
        and Point Judith, Rhode Island, and for other purposes.

    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 ``EEZ Transit Zone Clarification and 
Access Act''.

SEC. 2. RECREATIONAL FISHING IN BLOCK ISLAND SOUND TRANSIT ZONE.

    (a) In General.--The Secretary of Commerce, in consultation with 
the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission, may issue regulations 
to permit and regulate recreational Atlantic striped bass fishing in 
the Block Island Sound Transit Zone.
    (b) Block Island Sound Transit Zone Defined.--In this section the 
term ``Block Island Sound transit zone'' means the area of the 
exclusive economic zone north of a line connecting Montauk Light, 
Montauk Point, New York, and Block Island Southeast Light, Block 
Island, Rhode Island; and west of a line connecting Point Judith Light, 
Point Judith, Rhode Island, and Block Island Southeast Light, Block 
Island, Rhode Island.
    (c) Savings Clause.--Nothing in this section or the regulations 
issued under this section shall affect--
            (1) any permit that--
                    (A) is issued under any other provision of law by 
                the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, 
                including a permit issued before the date of the 
                enactment of this Act; and
                    (B) authorizes fishing in the Block Island Sound 
                Transit Zone; or
            (2) any activity authorized by such a permit.

            Passed the House of Representatives June 7, 2016.

            Attest:

                                                 KAREN L. HAAS,

                                                                 Clerk.