H. R. 5069 
One Hundred Thirteenth Congress 
of the 
United States of America 
AT THE SECOND SESSION 
Begun and held at the City of Washington on Friday, 
the third day of January, two thousand and fourteen 
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. 
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 ‘‘Federal Duck Stamp Act of 
2014’’. 
SEC. 2. INCREASE IN PRICE OF MIGRATORY BIRD HUNTING AND CON-
SERVATION STAMP TO FUND ACQUISITION OF CONSERVA-
TION EASEMENTS FOR MIGRATORY BIRDS. 
The Migratory Bird Hunting and Conservation Stamp Act is 
amended— 
(1) in section 2(b) (16 U.S.C. 718b(b))— 
(A) by striking ‘‘1990, and’’ and inserting ‘‘1990,’’; and 
(B) by striking ‘‘for each hunting year thereafter’’ and 
inserting ‘‘for hunting years 1991 through 2013, and $25 
for each hunting year thereafter’’; 
(2) by adding at the end of section 2 (16 U.S.C. 718b) 
the following: 
‘‘(c) REDUCTION IN PRICE OF STAMP.—The Secretary may reduce 
the price of each stamp sold under the provisions of this section 
for a hunting year if the Secretary determines that the increase 
in the price of the stamp after hunting year 2013 resulted in 
a reduction in revenues deposited into the fund.’’; and 
(3) in section 4 (16 U.S.C. 718d)— 
(A) in subsection (a)(3), by inserting before the period 
the following: ‘‘, in which there shall be a subaccount to 
which the Secretary of the Treasury shall transfer all 
amounts in excess of $15 that are received from the sale 
of each stamp sold for each hunting year after hunting 
year 2013’’; 
(B) in subsection (b)(1), by striking ‘‘So much’’ and 
inserting ‘‘Except as provided in paragraph (4), so much’’; 
(C) in subsection (b)(2), by striking ‘‘paragraph (3)’’ 
and inserting ‘‘paragraphs (3) and (4)’’; and 
(D) by adding at the end of subsection (b) the following: 
‘‘(4) CONSERVATION
EASEMENTS.—Amounts in the sub-
account referred to in subsection (a)(3) shall be used by the 
Secretary solely to acquire easements in real property in the 
United States for conservation of migratory birds.’’.
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SEC. 3. ANNUAL REPORT ON EXPENDITURES. 
Section 4 of the Migratory Bird Hunting and Conservation 
Stamp Act (16 U.S.C. 718d) is further amended— 
(1) in subsection (c)— 
(A) by striking so much as precedes ‘‘The Secretary 
may’’ and inserting the following: 
‘‘(c) PROMOTION OF STAMP SALES.—’’; and 
(B) by striking paragraph (2); and 
(2) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(d) ANNUAL REPORT.—The Secretary shall include in each 
annual report of the Commission under section 3 of the Migratory 
Bird Conservation Act (16 U.S.C. 715b)— 
‘‘(1) a description of activities conducted under subsection 
(c) in the year covered by the report; 
‘‘(2) an annual assessment of the status of wetlands con-
servation projects for migratory bird conservation purposes, 
including a clear and accurate accounting of— 
‘‘(A) all expenditures by Federal and State agencies 
under this section; and 
‘‘(B) all expenditures made for fee-simple acquisition 
of Federal lands in the United States, including the amount 
paid and acreage of each parcel acquired in each acquisi-
tion; 
‘‘(3) an analysis of the refuge lands opened, and refuge 
lands closed, for hunting and fishing in the year covered by 
the report, including— 
‘‘(A) identification of the specific areas in each refuge 
and the reasons for the closure or opening; and 
‘‘(B) a detailed description of each closure including 
detailed justification for such closure; 
‘‘(4) the total number of acres of refuge land open for 
hunting and fishing, and the total number of acres of refuge 
land closed for hunting and fishing, in the year covered by 
the report; and 
‘‘(5) a separate report on the hunting and fishing status 
of those lands added to the system in the year covered by 
the report.’’. 
SEC. 4. EXEMPTION FOR TAKINGS BY RURAL ALASKA SUBSISTENCE 
USERS. 
Section 1(a)(2) of the Migratory Bird Hunting and Conservation 
Stamp Act (16 U.S.C. 718a(a)(2)) is amended by striking ‘‘or’’ after 
the semicolon at the end of subparagraph (B), by striking the 
period at the end of subparagraph (C) and inserting ‘‘; or’’, and 
by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(D) by a rural Alaska resident for subsistence uses 
(as that term is defined in section 803 of the Alaska
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National Interest Lands Conservation Act (16 U.S.C. 
3113)).’’. 
Speaker of the House of Representatives. 
Vice President of the United States and
President of the Senate.