H. R. 3679

One Hundred Third Congress

of the

United States of America

AT THE SECOND SESSION

Begun and held at the City of Washington on Tuesday,

the twenty-fifth day of January, one thousand nine hundred and ninety-four

An Act

To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to carry out a program to be known

as the Junior Duck Stamp Conservation and Design 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. SHORT TITLE.

This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Junior Duck Stamp Conservation

and Design Program Act of 1994’’.

SEC. 2. ESTABLISHMENT OF PROGRAM.

(a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary of the Interior (in this Act

referred to as the ‘‘Secretary’’) may carry out in accordance with

this Act a program to be known as the ‘‘Junior Duck Stamp Conservation and Design Program’’ (in this Act referred to as the

‘‘Program’’) to accomplish the goals of—

(1) providing to school children environmental education

opportunities relating to the conservation and management

of migratory birds; and

(2) increasing the capacity for schools, States, and other

educational programs to conduct conservation and education

programs.

(b) PROGRAM FEATURES.—The Program shall consist of—

(1) conducting in all interested States the activities which

on the day before the date of the enactment of this Act are

conducted under the program known as the Junior Duck Stamp

Conservation and Design Program;

(2) other activities authorized under the Program by this

or any other Act; and

(3) any other activity necessary to carry out the conservation and education goals of the Program.

(c) EFFORT TO CONDUCT PROGRAM IN ALL STATES.—

(1) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary shall take appropriate

steps to seek to conduct the Program in all of the 50 States.

(2) ANNUAL REPORT.—The Secretary shall annually submit

a report to the Congress on the status of the Program in

each of the 50 States.

SEC. 3. JUNIOR DUCK STAMP.

(a) COMPETITION.—As part of the Program, the Secretary may

annually conduct a competition to—

(1) solicit the submission by students at elementary and

secondary schools of designs relating to conservation of migratory birds; and
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(2) select winning designs from among those submissions for use for licensing and marketing under subsection (b).

(b) LICENSING AND MARKETING OF DESIGN OF JUNIOR DUCK

STAMPS.—As part of the Program, the Secretary may—

(1) license and market winning designs selected in competi- tions under subsection (a); and

(2) license and market stamps bearing those designs, which shall be known as Junior Duck Stamps.

(c) USE OF PROCEEDS FROM LICENSING AND MARKETING OF

JUNIOR DUCK STAMPS AND JUNIOR DUCK STAMP DESIGNS.—Amounts

received under subsection (b)—

(1) shall be available to the Secretary until expended, with- out further appropriations, solely for— (A) awards and scholarships to individuals who submit designs in competitions under subsection (a), that are— (i) selected in such a competition as winning designs; or (ii) otherwise determined in such a competition

to be superior;

(B) awards to schools and other participants to further

education activities related to the conservation education

goals of the Program; and

(C) expenses for licensing and marketing under subsection (b); and

(2) may not be used for administrative expenses of the

Program.

SEC. 4. ACCEPTANCE OF GIFTS, DEVISES, AND BEQUESTS.

The Secretary may accept and use any gift, devise, or bequest

of personal property, or proceeds thereof, for the purpose of funding

the activities described in section 3(c)(1) (A) and (B).

SEC. 5. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.

There are authorized to be appropriated to the Secretary for

administrative expenses of the Program $250,000 for each of the

fiscal years 1995 through 2000.

SEC. 6. ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION CENTER AND REFUGE HEADQUARTERS AT JOHN HEINZ NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE

AT TINICUM.

(a) IN GENERAL.—Notwithstanding other laws and subject to

subsection (b), the Secretary of the Interior, acting through the

Director of the United States Fish and Wildlife Service, may transfer to the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation the Cusano

bequest.

(b) CONDITIONS OF TRANSFER.—As a condition of transferring the Cusano bequest under subsection (a), the Secretary of the

Interior shall require the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation

to enter into an agreement under which the Foundation is required

to—

(1) solicit additional non-Federal contributions to provide

a dollar for dollar match of the Cusano bequest;

(2) manage the Cusano bequest and those contributions

in accordance with all applicable requirements of the National

Fish and Wildlife Foundation Establishment Act (16 U.S.C.

3701 et seq.);

(3) use all amounts and proceeds from the Cusano bequest

and any non-Federal contributions received pursuant to para-
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graph (1) for the purpose of designing and constructing a facility

for an environmental education center and refuge headquarters

on lands located within the John Heinz National Wildlife Refuge at Tinicum; and

(4) donate the facility to the United States Fish and Wildlife

Service upon completion of its construction.

(c) CUSANO BEQUEST DEFINED.—For purposes of this section,

the term ‘‘Cusano bequest’’ means the amounts totaling approximately $2,473,971 which were donated to the Department of the

Interior in 1994 by Mr. Antonio Cusano of Crum Lynne, Pennsylvania, and includes all proceeds derived from such amounts in the

period since the donation was made.

Speaker of the House of Representatives.

Vice President of the United States and

President of the Senate.