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Calendar No. 307 

112TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION S. 1657 

[Report No. 112–141] 

To amend the provisions of law relating to sport fish restoration and 

recreational boating safety, and for other purposes. 

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 

OCTOBER 5, 2011 

Mr. ROCKEFELLER introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 

referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation 

JANUARY 30, 2012 

Reported by Mr. ROCKEFELLER, without amendment 

A BILL 

To amend the provisions of law relating to sport fish restoration and recreational boating safety, and for other purposes. 

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

4 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Sport Fish Restoration 

5 and Recreational Boating Safety Act of 2011’’. 


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1 SEC. 2. AMENDMENT OF FEDERAL AID IN FISH RESTORA2 TION ACT. 

3 Except as otherwise expressly provided, whenever in 

4 this Act an amendment or repeal is expressed in terms 

5 of an amendment to, or repeal of, a section or other provi6 sion, the reference shall be considered to be made to a 

7 section or other provision of the Federal Aid in Fish Res8 toration Act (16 U.S.C. 777 et seq.). 

9 SEC. 3. DIVISION OF ANNUAL APPROPRIATIONS. 

10 Section 4 (16 U.S.C. 777c) is amended— 

11 (1) in subsection (a), by striking ‘‘of fiscal 

12 years 2006 through 2011,’’ and inserting ‘‘fiscal 

13 year through 2017,’’; 

14 (2) in subsection (b)(1)— 

15 (A) in subparagraph (A), by striking ‘‘of 

16 fiscal years 2006 through 2011,’’ and inserting 

17 ‘‘fiscal year through 2017,’’; 

18 (B) in subparagraph (B)— 

19 (i) in clause (i), by striking ‘‘each of 

20 fiscal years 2001 and 2002, $9,000,000;’’ 

21 and inserting ‘‘fiscal year 2012, 

22 $11,481,000;’’; 

23 (ii) in clause (ii), by striking ‘‘2003, 

24 $8,212,000;’’ and inserting ‘‘2013, 

25 $11,870,000;’’; and 


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1 (iii) in clause (iii), by striking ‘‘2004’’ 

2 and inserting ‘‘2014’’; and 

3 (C) by adding at the end the following: 

4 ‘‘(C) SET-ASIDE FOR BOATING SAFETY.— 

5 ‘‘(i) From the annual appropriation 

6 made in accordance with section 3, for 

7 each fiscal year through 2017, the Sec8 retary shall transfer to the Secretary of 

9 the department in which the Coast Guard 

10 is operating— 

11 ‘‘(I) $6,500,000 for the purposes 

12 set forth in section 13107(c) of title 

13 46, United States Code; 

14 ‘‘(II) $200,000 to fund the Na15 tional Boating Safety Advisory Coun16 cil established under section 13110 of 

17 Title 46, United States Code; and 

18 ‘‘(III) not less than $6,000,000 

19 for national boating safety activities 

20 of national nonprofit public service or21 ganizations, and such sums made 

22 available for allocation and distribu23 tion shall remain available until ex24 pended. 


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1 ‘‘(ii) The amounts specified in clause 

2 (i) for a fiscal year may not be included in 

3 the amount of the annual appropriation 

4 distributed under subsection (a) for the fis5 cal year.’’; 

6 (3) in subsection (b)(2)(B), by striking ‘‘sub7 section (e)’’ and inserting ‘‘subsection (c)’’; and 

8 (4) in subsection (e)— 

9 (A) in paragraph (1), by striking ‘‘those 

10 subsections’’ and inserting ‘‘those paragraphs’’; 

11 (B) by amending paragraph (2) to read as 

12 follows: 

13 ‘‘(2) MAXIMUM AMOUNT.—For fiscal year 

14 2012, the Secretary of the Interior may use not 

15 more than $1,200,000 in accordance with paragraph 

16 (1). For each fiscal year thereafter, the maximum 

17 amount that the Secretary of the Interior may use 

18 in accordance with paragraph (1) shall be deter19 mined pursuant to paragraph (3).’’; and 

20 (C) by adding at the end the following: 

21 ‘‘(3) ANNUAL ADJUSTED MAXIMUM AMOUNT.— 

22 The maximum amount referred to in paragraph 2 

23 for fiscal year 2013 and each fiscal year thereafter 

24 shall be the sum of— 


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1 ‘‘(A) the available maximum amount for 

2 the preceding fiscal year; and 

3 ‘‘(B) the amount determined by multi4 plying— 

5 ‘‘(i) the available maximum amount 

6 for the preceding fiscal year; and 

7 ‘‘(ii) the change, relative to the pre8 ceding fiscal year, in the Consumer Price 

9 Index for All Urban Consumers published 

10 by the Department of Labor.’’. 

11 SEC. 4. EXTENSION OF EXCEPTION TO LIMITATION ON 

12 TRANSFERS TO FUND. 

13 Section 9504(d)(2) of the Internal Revenue Code of 

14 1986 is amended by striking ‘‘2011,’’ and inserting 

15 ‘‘2017,’’. 

16 SEC. 5. RECREATIONAL BOATING SAFETY. 

17 Section 13107 of title 46, United States Code, is 

18 amended— 

19 (1) in subsection (a)(2), by striking ‘‘two’’ and 

20 inserting ‘‘1.5’’; and 

21 (2) in subsection (c)(1)— 

22 (A) by striking ‘‘subsection (a)(2)’’ and in23 serting ‘‘subsection (b)’’; 

24 (B) by striking ‘‘(16 U.S.C. 777c(a)(2)),’’ 

25 and inserting ‘‘(16 U.S.C. 777c(b)),’’; and 


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1 (C) by striking ‘‘$5,500,000’’ and inserting 

2 ‘‘$6,500,000’’. 


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Calendar No. 307 

112TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION S. 1657 

[Report No. 112–141] 

A BILL 

To amend the provisions of law relating to sport 

and for other purposes. fish restoration and recreational boating safety, 

JANUARY 30, 2012 

Reported without amendment 


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