    [United States Statutes at Large, Volume 134, 116th Congress, 2nd Session]
    [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

    Public Law 116-186
    116th Congress

    An Act

    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'';

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    (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).

    Approved October 30, 2020.

    LEGISLATIVE HISTORY--H.R. 3399 (S. 4403):
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    HOUSE REPORTS: No. 116-405 (Comm. on Natural Resources).
    CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, Vol. 166 (2020):
    Feb. 26, considered and passed House.
    Sept. 30, considered and passed Senate.