a water development agency shall make a payment 
to the Service for that fiscal year as required under 
a fishery mitigation plan developed by the Service 
and the agency under subsection (b). 
(2) CREDITING
OF
PAYMENTS; AVAILABILITY 
OF AMOUNTS.—Funds paid to the Service under this 
subsection shall— 
(A) be credited to the appropriation of the 
Service initially charged for providing the serv-
ice for which the payment is being made; 
(B) be available to the Service for expendi-
ture in amounts specified in appropriations 
Acts; and 
(C) remain available until expended. 
(3) PROJECTS WITHOUT FISHERY MITIGATION 
PLANS.—In the absence of a fishery mitigation plan, 
the Service may conduct mitigation fishery activities 
and receive funding from a water development agen-
cy for the activities based on the terms and condi-
tions that applied with respect to the activities in the 
prior fiscal year. 
(e) DEFINITIONS.—In this section, the following defi-
nitions apply: 
(1) MITIGATION
FISHERY
ACTIVITIES.—The 
term ‘‘mitigation fishery activities’’ means rearing 
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and stocking of native and nonnative fish to replace 
or maintain fishery resources or harvest levels (or 
both) lost as a result of a Federal water resources 
development project, and includes project planning, 
population assessment and evaluation, genetic moni-
toring, broodstock development, and fish health sam-
pling. 
(2) MITIGATION
FISHERY
COSTS.—The term 
‘‘mitigation fishery costs’’ means the expenditures 
necessary to operate, maintain, and rehabilitate miti-
gation fishery facilities and to conduct mitigation 
fishery activities, and includes personnel, transpor-
tation, utilities, contractual services, fish feed, sup-
plies, equipment, routine maintenance, deferred 
maintenance, fish eggs, technical support, fish 
health, management and administration, planning, 
outreach and education, and hatchery product eval-
uations. 
(3) MITIGATION FISHERY FACILITY.—The term 
‘‘mitigation fishery facility’’ means a facility de-
scribed in subsection (g) that is owned and operated 
by the Service through the National Fish Hatchery 
System for the purpose, either wholly or substan-
tially in part, of conducting mitigation fishery activi-
ties. 
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(4) SERVICE.—The term ‘‘Service’’ means the 
United States Fish and Wildlife Service. 
(5) WATER DEVELOPMENT AGENCY.—The term 
‘‘water development agency’’ means the Army Corps 
of Engineers, the Bureau of Reclamation, or the 
Tennessee Valley Authority. 
(f) LISTING OF MITIGATION FISHERY FACILITIES.— 
The mitigation fishery facilities referred to in subsection 
(f) are as follows: 
(1) In Arkansas— 
(A) Greers Ferry National Fish Hatchery; 
and 
(B) Norfork National Fish Hatchery. 
(2) In Georgia— 
(A) Chattahoochee Forest National Fish 
Hatchery; and 
(B) Warm Springs Fish Health Center. 
(3) In Kentucky, Wolf Creek National Fish 
Hatchery. 
(4) In Missouri, Neosho National Fish Hatch-
ery. 
(5) In Montana— 
(A) Ennis National Fish Hatchery; and 
(B) Bozeman Fish Health Center. 
(6) In North Dakota— 
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(A) Garrison Dam National Fish Hatch-
ery; and 
(B) Valley City National Fish Hatchery. 
(7) In Pennsylvania, Lamar Fish Health Cen-
ter. 
(8) In South Dakota, Gavins Point National 
Fish Hatchery. 
(9) In Tennessee— 
(A) Dale Hollow National Fish Hatchery; 
and 
(B) Erwin National Fish Hatchery. 
(10) In Utah, Jones Hole National Fish Hatch-
ery. 
(11) In West Virginia, White Sulphur Springs 
National Fish Hatchery. 
(12) In Wisconsin, LaCrosse Fish Health Cen-
ter. 
(13) In Wyoming, Saratoga National Fish 
Hatchery. 
Æ 
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