[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3979 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3979

To amend the Fish and Wildlife Act of 1956 to reauthorize the volunteer 
 services, community partnership, and refuge education programs of the 
        National Wildlife Refuge System, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            October 5, 2017

  Mr. Jeffries (for himself, Mr. Wittman, Mr. Grijalva, Mr. Graves of 
 Louisiana, Mr. Sablan, Mr. LoBiondo, and Mr. Thompson of California) 
 introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
                           Natural Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the Fish and Wildlife Act of 1956 to reauthorize the volunteer 
 services, community partnership, and refuge education programs of the 
        National Wildlife Refuge System, 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 ``Keep America's Refuges Operational 
Act''.

SEC. 2. REAUTHORIZATION OF NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE SYSTEM VOLUNTEER 
              SERVICES, COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP, AND REFUGE EDUCATION 
              PROGRAMS.

    Section 7 of the Fish and Wildlife Act of 1956 (16 U.S.C. 742f) is 
amended--
            (1) in subsection (d)(2)(C)(ii), by striking ``and may not 
        be used for operation or administration of any non-Federal 
        entity''; and
            (2) in subsection (g), by striking ``2011 through 2014'' 
        and inserting ``2018 through 2022''.
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