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113TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION H. R. 5069 

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 

NOVEMBER 18, 2014 

Received 

AN ACT 

To amend the Migratory Bird Hunting and Conservation 

Stamp Act to increase in the price of Migratory Bird 

Hunting and Conservation Stamps to fund the acquisition of conservation easements for migratory birds, 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, 


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1 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

2 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Federal Duck Stamp 

3 Act of 2014’’. 

4 SEC. 2. INCREASE IN PRICE OF MIGRATORY BIRD HUNTING 

5 AND CONSERVATION STAMP TO FUND ACQUI6 SITION OF CONSERVATION EASEMENTS FOR 

7 MIGRATORY BIRDS. 

8 The Migratory Bird Hunting and Conservation 

9 Stamp Act is amended— 

10 (1) in section 2(b) (16 U.S.C. 718b(b))— 

11 (A) by striking ‘‘1990, and’’ and inserting 

12 ‘‘1990,’’; and 

13 (B) by striking ‘‘for each hunting year 

14 thereafter’’ and inserting ‘‘for hunting years 

15 1991 through 2013, and $25 for each hunting 

16 year thereafter’’; 

17 (2) by adding at the end of section 2 (16 

18 U.S.C. 718b) the following: 

19 ‘‘(c) REDUCTION IN PRICE OF STAMP.—The Sec20 retary may reduce the price of each stamp sold under the 

21 provisions of this section for a hunting year if the Sec22 retary determines that the increase in the price of the 

23 stamp after hunting year 2013 resulted in a reduction in 

24 revenues deposited into the fund.’’; and 

25 (3) in section 4 (16 U.S.C. 718d)— 


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1 (A) in subsection (a)(3), by inserting be2 fore the period the following: ‘‘, in which there 

3 shall be a subaccount to which the Secretary of 

4 the Treasury shall transfer all amounts in ex5 cess of $15 that are received from the sale of 

6 each stamp sold for each hunting year after 

7 hunting year 2013’’; 

8 (B) in subsection (b)(1), by striking ‘‘So 

9 much’’ and inserting ‘‘Except as provided in 

10 paragraph (4), so much’’; 

11 (C) in subsection (b)(2), by striking ‘‘para12 graph (3)’’ and inserting ‘‘paragraphs (3) and 

13 (4)’’; and 

14 (D) by adding at the end of subsection (b) 

15 the following: 

16 ‘‘(4) CONSERVATION EASEMENTS.—Amounts in 

17 the subaccount referred to in subsection (a)(3) shall 

18 be used by the Secretary solely to acquire easements 

19 in real property in the United States for conserva20 tion of migratory birds.’’. 

21 SEC. 3. ANNUAL REPORT ON EXPENDITURES. 

22 Section 4 of the Migratory Bird Hunting and Con23 servation Stamp Act (16 U.S.C. 718d) is further amend24 ed— 

25 (1) in subsection (c)— 


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1 (A) by striking so much as precedes ‘‘The 

2 Secretary may’’ and inserting the following: 

3 ‘‘(c) PROMOTION OF STAMP SALES.—’’; and 

4 (B) by striking paragraph (2); and 

5 (2) by adding at the end the following: 

6 ‘‘(d) ANNUAL REPORT.—The Secretary shall include 

7 in each annual report of the Commission under section 

8 3 of the Migratory Bird Conservation Act (16 U.S.C. 

9 715b)— 

10 ‘‘(1) a description of activities conducted under 

11 subsection (c) in the year covered by the report; 

12 ‘‘(2) an annual assessment of the status of wet13 lands conservation projects for migratory bird con14 servation purposes, including a clear and accurate 

15 accounting of— 

16 ‘‘(A) all expenditures by Federal and State 

17 agencies under this section; and 

18 ‘‘(B) all expenditures made for fee-simple 

19 acquisition of Federal lands in the United 

20 States, including the amount paid and acreage 

21 of each parcel acquired in each acquisition; 

22 ‘‘(3) an analysis of the refuge lands opened, 

23 and refuge lands closed, for hunting and fishing in 

24 the year covered by the report, including— 


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1 ‘‘(A) identification of the specific areas in 

2 each refuge and the reasons for the closure or 

3 opening; and 

4 ‘‘(B) a detailed description of each closure 

5 including detailed justification for such closure; 

6 ‘‘(4) the total number of acres of refuge land 

7 open for hunting and fishing, and the total number 

8 of acres of refuge land closed for hunting and fish9 ing, in the year covered by the report; and 

10 ‘‘(5) a separate report on the hunting and fish11 ing status of those lands added to the system in the 

12 year covered by the report.’’. 

13 SEC. 4. EXEMPTION FOR TAKINGS BY RURAL ALASKA SUB14 SISTENCE USERS. 

15 Section 1(a)(2) of the Migratory Bird Hunting and 

16 Conservation Stamp Act (16 U.S.C. 718a(a)(2)) is amend17 ed by striking ‘‘or’’ after the semicolon at the end of sub18 paragraph (B), by striking the period at the end of sub19 paragraph (C) and inserting ‘‘; or’’, and by adding at the 

20 end the following: 

21 ‘‘(D) by a rural Alaska resident for sub22 sistence uses (as that term is defined in section 


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1 803 of the Alaska National Interest Lands Con2 servation Act (16 U.S.C. 3113)).’’. 

Passed the House of Representatives November 17, 

2014. 

Attest: KAREN L. HAAS, 

Clerk. 


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