SEC.
2.
ATLANTIC
STRIPED
BASS
CONSERVATION
ACT
AMENDMENTS.
Section 7(a) of the Atlantic Striped Bass Conserva-
tion Act (Public Law 98–613, 16 U.S.C. 1851 note) is
amended by striking ‘‘1986’’ and all that follows through
‘‘1994’’, and inserting instead ‘‘1995 and 1996’’.
SEC. 3. ANADROMOUS FISH CONSERVATION ACT AMEND-
MENTS.
Section 7(d) of the Anadromous Fish Conservation
Act (16 U.S.C. 757g(d)) is amended by striking ‘‘1991,
1992, 1993, and 1994’’ and inserting instead ‘‘1995 and
1996’’.
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Striped Bass Conserva-
tion Act Amendments of 1995’’.
SEC. 2. REAUTHORIZATION.
Section 7(a) of the Atlantic Striped Bass Conservation
Act (16 U.S.C. 1851 note) is amended by striking ‘‘For each
of fiscal years 1986,’’ and all that follows through ‘‘1994,’’
and inserting ‘‘For each of fiscal years 1995 and 1996,’’.
SEC. 3. TECHNICAL AND CONFORMING AMENDMENTS.
(a) COMMISSION MONITORING OF IMPLEMENTATION OF
INTERSTATE
PLAN.—Section 4(a)(1) of the Atlantic
Striped Bass Conservation Act (16 U.S.C. 1851 note) is
amended in the material preceding subparagraph (A) by
striking ‘‘of fiscal year 1987, and of each fiscal year there-
after,’’ and inserting ‘‘of each fiscal year,’’.
(b) REPEAL OF INOPERATIVE PROVISIONS.—Sections
8 and 10 of the Atlantic Striped Bass Conservation Act (16
U.S.C. 1851 note) are repealed.
SEC. 4. PUBLIC PARTICIPATION IN PREPARATION OF PLANS
AND AMENDMENTS TO PLANS FOR ATLANTIC
STRIPED BASS.
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Atlantic Striped Bass Con-
servation Act (16 U.S.C. 1851 note), as amended by section
2(b) of this Act, is further amended by adding after section
7 the following new section:
‘‘SEC. 8. PUBLIC PARTICIPATION IN PREPARATION OF
PLANS AND AMENDMENTS TO PLANS FOR AT-
LANTIC STRIPED BASS.
‘‘The Commission shall establish standards and proce-
dures to ensure that the Commission provides an adequate
opportunity for public participation in the preparation of
any plan for the management of Atlantic Striped Bass and
any amendment to such a plan (including any amendment
to the Interstate Fisheries Management Plan for Striped
Bass, dated October 1, 1981), including public hearings and
procedures for the submission of written comments to the
Commission.’’.
(b) DEADLINE.—Within 6 months after the date of the
enactment of this Act, the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries
Commission shall issue standards and procedures under
section 8 of the Atlantic Striped Bass Conservation Act (16
U.S.C. 1851 note), as amended by subsection (a) of this sec-
tion.
SEC. 5. TRANSFER OF EXISTING PROVISION TO ATLANTIC
STRIPED BASS CONSERVATION ACT.
So much of section 6 of the Act entitled ‘‘An Act to
authorize appropriations to carry out the Atlantic Striped
Bass Conservation Act for fiscal years 1989 through 1991,
and for other purposes’’ (approved November 3, 1988; Pub-
lic Law 100–589; 102 Stat. 2986) as precedes subsection
(g) of that section—
(1) is transferred from that Act to the Atlantic
Striped Bass Conservation Act (16 U.S.C. 1851 note);
(2) shall appear immediately after section 8 of
the Atlantic Striped Bass Conservation Act, as
amended by section 4 of this Act; and
(3) is redesignated as section 9 of the Atlantic
Striped Bass Conservation Act.
SEC. 6. AMENDMENT AND EXTENSION OF AUTHORIZATION
FOR ANADROMOUS FISH CONSERVATION ACT.
(a) SCOPE OF STUDIES.—Section 7(a) of the Anad-
romous Fish Conservation Act (16 U.S.C. 757g(a)) is
amended by striking ‘‘and’’ after the semicolon at the end
of paragraph (2), by striking the period at the end of para-
graph (3) and inserting ‘‘; and’’, and by adding at the end
the following new paragraph:
‘‘(4) the effects of water quality and other habi-
tat changes on the recruitment, spawning potential,
mortality rates, and population abundance of the
Delaware River striped bass population.’’.
(b) EXTENSION OF AUTHORIZATION.—Section 7(d) of
the Anadromous Fish Conservation Act (16 U.S.C. 757g(d))
is amended by striking ‘‘each of the fiscal years 1991, 1992,
1993, and 1994’’ and inserting ‘‘each of the fiscal years
1995, 1996, 1997, and 1998’’.
Union Calendar No. 50
104TH CONGRESS
1ST SESSION
H. R. 1139
[Report No. 104–105]
A BILL
To amend the Atlantic Striped Bass Conservation
Act, and for other purposes.
MAY 1, 1995
Reported with an amendment, committed to the Commit-
tee of the Whole House on the State of the Union, and
ordered to be printed