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                                                 Union Calendar No. 327
116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 3399

                          [Report No. 116-405]

  To amend the Nutria Eradication and Control Act of 2003 to include 
           California in the program, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             June 21, 2019

     Mr. Harder of California (for himself, Mr. Costa, Mr. Cox of 
California, and Mr. Garamendi) introduced the following bill; which was 
             referred to the Committee on Natural Resources

                           February 25, 2020

Additional sponsors: Ms. Lee of California, Mr. Panetta, Mr. Graves of 
                        Louisiana, and Mr. Bera

                           February 25, 2020

  Reported with an amendment; 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 June 
                               21, 2019]


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                                 A BILL


 
  To amend the Nutria Eradication and Control Act of 2003 to include 
           California in the program, 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. NUTRIA ERADICATION.

    The Nutria Eradication and Control Act of 2003 (Public Law 108-16) 
is amended--
            (1) in section 2--
                    (A) in subsection (a)--
                            (i) in paragraph (1), by striking 
                        ``Wetlands and tidal marshes of the Chesapeake 
                        Bay and in Louisiana'' and inserting 
                        ``Wetlands, tidal marshes, and agricultural 
                        lands'';
                            (ii) in paragraph (2), by striking ``in 
                        Maryland and Louisiana''; and
                            (iii) by amending paragraph (3) to read as 
                        follows:
            ``(3) Traditional harvest methods to control or eradicate 
        nutria have failed. Consequently, marsh loss, loss of public 
        and private wetlands, and loss of agricultural lands are 
        accelerating.''; and
                    (B) in subsection (b), by striking ``the State of 
                Maryland and the State of Louisiana'' and inserting 
                ``any State that has demonstrated the need''; and
            (2) in section 3--
                    (A) by amending subsection (a) to read as follows:
    ``(a) Grant Authority.--The Secretary of the Interior (referred to 
in this Act as the `Secretary'), may provide financial assistance to a 
State, in an amount that is in proportion to the total impacted area of 
such State affected by nutria, that has demonstrated to the Secretary 
sufficient need for a program to implement measures to eradicate or 
control nutria and restore marshland, public and private wetlands, and 
agricultural lands damaged by nutria.'';
                    (B) by striking subsection (b);
                    (C) in subsection (d)--
                            (i) in paragraph (1), by striking ``the 
                        program may'' and inserting ``a State program 
                        referred to in subsection (a) may''; and
                            (ii) in paragraph (2), by striking ``the 
                        program may'' and inserting ``a State program 
                        referred to in subsection (a) may'';
                    (D) in subsection (e), by inserting ``to a State'' 
                after ``provided'';
                    (E) in subsection (f), by striking ``$4,000,000'' 
                and all that follows and inserting ``$12,000,000 for 
                each of fiscal years 2021 through 2025.''; and
                    (F) by redesignating subsections (c) through (f) as 
                subsections (b) through (e).
                                                 Union Calendar No. 327

116th CONGRESS

  2d Session

                               H. R. 3399

                          [Report No. 116-405]

_______________________________________________________________________

                                 A BILL

  To amend the Nutria Eradication and Control Act of 2003 to include 
           California in the program, and for other purposes.

_______________________________________________________________________

                           February 25, 2020

  Reported with an amendment; committed to the Committee of the Whole 
       House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed