[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 156 (2010), Part 12]
[Senate]
[Page 17758]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                 ASIAN CARP PREVENTION AND CONTROL ACT

  Mr. WHITEHOUSE. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the 
Senate proceed to the immediate consideration of Calendar No. 366, S. 
1421.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report the bill by title.
  The assistant editor of the Daily Digest read as follows:

       A bill (S. 1421) to amend section 42 of title 18, United 
     States Code, to prohibit the importation and shipment of 
     certain species of carp.

  There being no objection, the Senate proceeded to consider the bill.
  Mr. WHITEHOUSE. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the bill 
be read a third time and passed, the motion to reconsider be laid upon 
the table, with no intervening action or debate, and any statements be 
printed in the Record.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  The bill was ordered to be engrossed for a third reading, was read 
the third time, and passed, as follows:

                                S. 1421

       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 ``Asian Carp Prevention and 
     Control Act''.

     SEC. 2. ADDITION OF SPECIES OF CARP TO THE LIST OF INJURIOUS 
                   SPECIES THAT ARE PROHIBITED FROM BEING IMPORTED 
                   OR SHIPPED.

       Section 42(a)(1) of title 18, United States Code, is 
     amended by inserting ``of the bighead carp of the species 
     Hypophthalmichthys nobilis;'' after ``Dreissena 
     polymorpha;''.

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