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[Congressional Bills 113th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4032 Reported in House (RH)]

                                                 Union Calendar No. 304
113th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 4032

                      [Report No. 113-413, Part I]

To exempt from Lacey Act Amendments of 1981 certain water transfers by 
the North Texas Municipal Water District and the Greater Texoma Utility 
                   Authority, and for other purposes.

_______________________________________________________________________

                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           February 11, 2014

  Mr. Hall (for himself, Mr. Sessions, and Mr. Sam Johnson of Texas) 
 introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
 Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, 
for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case 
for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of 
                        the committee concerned

                             April 10, 2014

            Reported from the Committee on Natural Resources

                             April 10, 2014

 The Committee on the Judiciary discharged; committed to the Committee 
 of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed

_______________________________________________________________________

                                 A BILL

 
To exempt from Lacey Act Amendments of 1981 certain water transfers by 
the North Texas Municipal Water District and the Greater Texoma Utility 
                   Authority, 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 ``North Texas Invasive Species Barrier 
Act of 2014''.

SEC. 2. COMPLIANCE WITH LACEY ACT AMENDMENT OF 1981.

    The Lacey Act Amendments of 1981 (16 U.S.C. 3371 et seq.) and 
section 42 of title 18, United States Code, shall not apply with 
respect to any water transfer by the North Texas Municipal Water 
District and the Greater Texoma Utility Authority using only closed 
conveyance systems from the Lake Texoma raw water intake structure to 
treatment facilities at which all genera and species prohibited in 
accordance with such Act or such section, respectively, are extirpated 
and removed from the water transferred.
                                                 Union Calendar No. 304

113th CONGRESS

  2d Session

                               H. R. 4032

                      [Report No. 113-413, Part I]

_______________________________________________________________________

                                 A BILL

To exempt from Lacey Act Amendments of 1981 certain water transfers by 
the North Texas Municipal Water District and the Greater Texoma Utility 
                   Authority, and for other purposes.

_______________________________________________________________________

                             April 10, 2014

            Reported from the Committee on Natural Resources

                             April 10, 2014

 The Committee on the Judiciary discharged; committed to the Committee 
 of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed
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