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Union Calendar No. 463 

113TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION H. R. 5069 

[Report No. 113–622] 

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. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

JULY 10, 2014 

Mr. FLEMING (for himself, Mr. KIND, Mr. WITTMAN, and Mr. SMITH of Missouri) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee 

on Natural Resources 

NOVEMBER 17, 2014 

Additional sponsors: Mr. DINGELL, Mr. WALZ, Mr. HUFFMAN, Mr. JOYCE, 

Mr. THOMPSON of Mississippi, Mr. BOUSTANY, Mr. MCALLISTER, Mr. 

BYRNE, Mr. COTTON, Mr. RICHMOND, Mr. CASSIDY, Mr. SCALISE, Mr. 

JOHNSON of Ohio, Mr. GIBSON, Mr. AUSTIN SCOTT of Georgia, and Mr. 

GRIFFIN of Arkansas 

NOVEMBER 17, 2014 

Reported with an amendment, committed to the Committee of the Whole 

House on the State of the Union, and ordered to be printed 

[Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert the part printed in italic] 

[For text of introduced bill, see copy of bill as introduced on July 10, 2014] 


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A BILL 

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. 


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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 ‘‘Federal Duck Stamp 

5 Act of 2014’’. 

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

7 AND CONSERVATION STAMP TO FUND ACQUI8 SITION OF CONSERVATION EASEMENTS FOR 

9 MIGRATORY BIRDS. 

10 The Migratory Bird Hunting and Conservation 

11 Stamp Act is amended— 

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

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

14 ‘‘1990,’’; and 

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

16 thereafter’’ and inserting ‘‘for hunting years 

17 1991 through 2013, and $25 for each hunting 

18 year thereafter’’; 

19 (2) by adding at the end of section 2 (16 U.S.C. 

20 718b) the following: 

21 ‘‘(c) REDUCTION IN PRICE OF STAMP.—The Secretary 

22 may reduce the price of each stamp sold under the provi23 sions of this section for a hunting year if the Secretary de24 termines that the increase in the price of the stamp after 


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1 hunting year 2013 resulted in a reduction in revenues de2 posited into the fund.’’; and 

3 (3) in section 4 (16 U.S.C. 718d)— 

4 (A) in subsection (a)(3), by inserting before 

5 the period the following: ‘‘, in which there shall 

6 be a subaccount to which the Secretary of the 

7 Treasury shall transfer all amounts in excess of 

8 $15 that are received from the sale of each stamp 

9 sold for each hunting year after hunting year 

10 2013’’; 

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

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

13 paragraph (4), so much’’; 

14 (C) in subsection (b)(2), by striking ‘‘para15 graph (3)’’ and inserting ‘‘paragraphs (3) and 

16 (4)’’; and 

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

18 the following: 

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

20 the subaccount referred to in subsection (a)(3) shall be 

21 used by the Secretary solely to acquire easements in 

22 real property in the United States for conservation of 

23 migratory birds.’’. 


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1 SEC. 3. ANNUAL REPORT ON EXPENDITURES. 

2 Section 4 of the Migratory Bird Hunting and Con3 servation Stamp Act (16 U.S.C. 718d) is further amend4 ed— 

5 (1) in subsection (c)— 

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

7 Secretary may’’ and inserting the following: 

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

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

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

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

12 in each annual report of the Commission under section 3 

13 of the Migratory Bird Conservation Act (16 U.S.C. 715b)— 

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

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

16 ‘‘(2) an annual assessment of the status of wet17 lands conservation projects for migratory bird con18 servation purposes, including a clear and accurate ac19 counting of— 

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

21 agencies under this section; and 

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

23 acquisition of Federal lands in the United 

24 States, including the amount paid and acreage 

25 of each parcel acquired in each acquisition; 


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

2 refuge lands closed, for hunting and fishing in the 

3 year covered by the report, including— 

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

5 each refuge and the reasons for the closure or 

6 opening; and 

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

8 including detailed justification for such closure; 

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

10 open for hunting and fishing, and the total number 

11 of acres of refuge land closed for hunting and fishing, 

12 in the year covered by the report; and 

13 ‘‘(5) a separate report on the hunting and fish14 ing status of those lands added to the system in the 

15 year covered by the report.’’. 

16 SEC. 4. EXEMPTION FOR TAKINGS BY RURAL ALASKA SUB17 SISTENCE USERS. 

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

19 Conservation Stamp Act (16 U.S.C. 718a(a)(2)) is amended 

20 by striking ‘‘or’’ after the semicolon at the end of subpara21 graph (B), by striking the period at the end of subpara22 graph (C) and inserting ‘‘; or’’, and by adding at the end 

23 the following: 

24 ‘‘(D) by a rural Alaska resident for subsist25 ence uses (as that term is defined in section 803 


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1 of the Alaska National Interest Lands Conserva2 tion Act (16 U.S.C. 3113)).’’. 


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Union Calendar No. 463 

113TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION H. R. 5069 

[Report No. 113–622] 

A BILL 

To amend the Migratory Bird Hunting and Conposes. easements for migratory birds, and for other pur- Stamps to fund the acquisition of conservation Migratory Bird Hunting and Conservation servation Stamp Act to increase in the price of 

NOVEMBER 17, 2014 

Reported with an amendment, committed to the Comand ordered to be printed mittee of the Whole House on the State of the Union, 


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