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110TH CONGRESS REPT. 110–668 " ! HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 2d Session Part 2 

MISSISQUOI AND TROUT RIVERS WILD AND SCENIC 

RIVER STUDY ACT OF 2008 

SEPTEMBER 8, 2008.—Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State 

of the Union and ordered to be printed 

Mr. RAHALL, from the Committee on Natural Resources, 

submitted the following 

SUPPLEMENTAL REPORT 

[To accompany H.R. 3667] 

The Committee on Natural Resources, to whom was referred the 

bill (H.R. 3667) to amend the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act to designate a segment of the Missisquoi and Trout Rivers in the State 

of Vermont for study for potential addition to the National Wild 

and Scenic Rivers System, having considered the same, report favorably thereon with an amendment and recommend that the bill 

as amended do pass. 

The amendment is as follows: 

Strike all after the enacting clause and insert the following: 

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Missisquoi and Trout Rivers Wild and Scenic River 

Study Act of 2008’’. 

SEC. 2. DESIGNATION FOR STUDY. 

Section 5(a) of the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act (16 U.S.C. 1276(a)) is amended by 

adding at the end the following: 

‘‘(ll) MISSISQUOI AND TROUT RIVERS, VERMONT.—The approximately 25-mile 

segment of the upper Missisquoi from its headwaters in Lowell to the Canadian 

border in North Troy; the approximately 25-mile segment from the Canadian 

border in East Richford to Enosburg Falls; and approximately 20 miles of the 

Trout River from its headwaters to its confluence with the Missisquoi River.’’. 

SEC. 3. STUDY AND REPORT. 

Section 5(b) of the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act (16 U.S.C. 1276(b)) is amended by 

adding at the end the following: 

‘‘(19) MISSISQUOI AND TROUT RIVERS, VERMONT.—Not later than 3 years after 

funds are made available to carry out this paragraph, the Secretary of the Interior 

shall— 

‘‘(A) analyze the potential impact of the designation on private lands within 

the Missisquoi and Trout Rivers, Vermont, described in subsection (a)(ll) or 

adjacent to that area; 

‘‘(B) complete the study of the Missisquoi and Trout Rivers, Vermont, described in subsection (a)(ll); and 


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‘‘(C) submit a report describing the results of that study to the appropriate 

committees of Congress.’’. 

SUPPLEMENTAL REPORT

The Committee on Natural Resources is filing this supplemental 

report on H.R. 3667, a bill to amend the Wild and Scenic Rivers 

Act to designate a segment of the Missisquoi and Trout Rivers in 

the State of Vermont for study for potential addition to the National Wild and Scenic Rivers System, to ensure that amendments 

made to the legislation during the Full Committee’s meeting of 

April 30, 2008 are correctly reflected. An error in the original report on H.R. 3667 omitted the text of an amendment that was 

adopted by the Committee on that date. 

CHANGES IN EXISTING LAW MADE BY THE BILL, AS REPORTED

In compliance with clause 3(e) of rule XIII of the Rules of the 

House of Representatives, changes in existing law made by the bill, 

as reported, are shown as follows (new matter is printed in italic 

and existing law in which no change is proposed is shown in 

roman): 

WILD AND SCENIC RIVERS ACT 

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SEC. 5. (a) The following rivers are hereby designated for potential addition to the national wild and scenic rivers system: 

(1) * * * 

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(ll) MISSISQUOI AND TROUT RIVERS, VERMONT.—The approximately 25-mile segment of the upper Missisquoi from its 

headwaters in Lowell to the Canadian border in North Troy; 

the approximately 25-mile segment from the Canadian border 

in East Richford to Enosburg Falls; and approximately 20 

miles of the Trout River from its headwaters to its confluence 

with the Missisquoi River. 

(b)(1) * * * 

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(19) MISSISQUOI AND TROUT RIVERS, VERMONT.—Not later than 

3 years after funds are made available to carry out this paragraph, 

the Secretary of the Interior shall— 

(A) analyze the potential impact of the designation on private 

lands within the Missisquoi and Trout Rivers, Vermont, described in subsection (a)(ll) or adjacent to that area; 

(B) complete the study of the Missisquoi and Trout Rivers, 

Vermont, described in subsection (a)(ll); and 

(C) submit a report describing the results of that study to the 

appropriate committees of Congress. 

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