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104TH CONGRESS
1ST SESSION
H. R. 1141
To amend the Act popularly known as the ‘‘Sikes Act’’ to enhance fish
and wildlife conservation and natural resources management programs.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
MARCH 6, 1995
Mr. YOUNG of Alaska (for himself, Mr. SAXTON, and Mr. STUDDS) introduced
the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Resources
A BILL
To amend the Act popularly known as the ‘‘Sikes Act’’
to enhance fish and wildlife conservation and natural
resources management programs.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Sikes Act Improvement
Amendments of 1995’’.
SEC. 2. AMENDMENT OF SIKES ACT.
Except as otherwise expressly provided, whenever in
this Act an amendment or repeal is expressed in terms
of an amendment to, or repeal of, a section or other provi-
sion, the reference shall be considered to be made to a
section or other provision of title I of the Act entitled ‘‘An
Act to promote effectual planning, development, mainte-
nance, and coordination of wildlife, fish, and game con-
servation and rehabilitation in military reservations’’, ap-
proved September 15, 1960 (16 U.S.C. 670a et seq.), com-
monly referred to, and in this Act referred to, as the
‘‘Sikes Act’’.
SEC. 3. INTEGRATED NATURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
PLANS GENERALLY.
(a) IN
GENERAL.—Section 101(a) (16 U.S.C.
670a(a)) is amended—
(1) by striking ‘‘is authorized to’’ and inserting
‘‘shall’’;
(2) by striking ‘‘in each military reservation in
accordance with a cooperative plan’’ and inserting
the following: ‘‘on military installations. Under the
program, the Secretary shall prepare and implement
for each military installation in the United States an
integrated natural resource management plan’’; and
(3) by inserting after ‘‘reservation is located’’
the following: ‘‘, except that the Secretary is not re-
quired to prepare such a plan for a military installa-
tion if the Secretary determines that preparation of
such a plan for the installation is not appropriate’’.
(b) CONFORMING AMENDMENTS.—Title I, as amend-
ed by subsection (a) of this section, is further amended—
(1) in section 101(b) (16 U.S.C. 670a(b)) in
the matter preceding paragraph (1) by striking ‘‘co-
operative plan’’ and inserting ‘‘integrated natural re-
source management plan’’;
(2) in section 101(b)(4) (16 U.S.C. 670a(b)(4))
by striking ‘‘cooperative plan’’ each place it appears
and inserting ‘‘integrated natural resource manage-
ment plan’’;
(3) in section 101(c) (16 U.S.C. 670a(c)) in the
matter preceding paragraph (1) by striking ‘‘a coop-
erative plan’’ and inserting ‘‘an integrated natural
resource management plan’’;
(4) in section 101(d) (16 U.S.C. 670a(d)) in
the matter preceding paragraph (1) by striking ‘‘co-
operative plans’’ and inserting ‘‘integrated natural
resource management plans’’;
(5) in section 101(e) (16 U.S.C. 670a(e)) by
striking ‘‘Cooperative plans’’ and inserting ‘‘Inte-
grated natural resource management plans’’;
(6) in section 102 (16 U.S.C. 670b) by striking
‘‘a cooperative plan’’ and inserting ‘‘an integrated
natural resource management plan’’;