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[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3399 Enrolled Bill (ENR)]

        H.R.3399

                     One Hundred Sixteenth Congress

                                 of the

                        United States of America

                          AT THE SECOND SESSION

           Begun and held at the City of Washington on Friday,
            the third day of January, two thousand and twenty

                                 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'';
            (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).

                               Speaker of the House of Representatives.

                            Vice President of the United States and    
                                               President of the Senate.
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