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[H.R. 3070 Reported in House (RH)]

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                                                 Union Calendar No. 397
114th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 3070

                          [Report No. 114-517]

   To clarify that for purposes of all Federal laws governing marine 
 fisheries management, the landward boundary of the exclusive economic 
zone between areas south of Montauk, New York, and Point Judith, Rhode 
                    Island, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 15, 2015

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

                             April 25, 2016

                     Additional sponsor: Mr. Gosar

                             April 25, 2016

Reported with amendments, committed to the Committee of the Whole House 
          on the State of the Union, and ordered to be printed
 [Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert the part printed 
                               in italic]
 [For text of introduced bill, see copy of bill as introduced on July 
                               15, 2015]


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                                 A BILL


 
   To clarify that for purposes of all Federal laws governing marine 
 fisheries management, the landward boundary of the exclusive economic 
zone between areas south of 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.
            Amend the title so as to read: ``A bill 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.''.
                                                 Union Calendar No. 397

114th CONGRESS

  2d Session

                               H. R. 3070

                          [Report No. 114-517]

_______________________________________________________________________

                                 A BILL

   To clarify that for purposes of all Federal laws governing marine 
 fisheries management, the landward boundary of the exclusive economic 
zone between areas south of Montauk, New York, and Point Judith, Rhode 
                    Island, and for other purposes.

_______________________________________________________________________

                             April 25, 2016

Reported with amendments, committed to the Committee of the Whole House 
          on the State of the Union, and ordered to be printed