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(27) Congress recognizes the need for signifi-
cant Federal investment in the restoration of the 
Upper Mississippi and Illinois River ecosystems; 
(28) the Upper Mississippi River System pro-
vides important economic benefits from recreational 
and tourist uses, resulting in the basin’s receiving 
more visitors annually than most National Parks, 
with the ecosystems and wildlife being the main at-
tractions; 
(29) the Upper Mississippi River System—
(A) includes 284,688 acres of National 
Wildlife Refuge land that is managed as habitat 
for migratory birds, fish, threatened and endan-
gered species, and a diverse assortment of other 
species and related habitats; and 
(B) provides many recreational opportuni-
ties; and 
(30) the Upper Mississippi River System also 
includes over 975,000 acres of land protected by lev-
ees and needs a balanced ecosystem restoration pro-
gram that adequately considers the existing network 
of flood control infrastructure that protects thou-
sands of homes and businesses.
SEC. 2. ENHANCED NAVIGATION CAPACITY IMPROVE-
MENTS AND ECOSYSTEM RESTORATION PLAN 
FOR THE UPPER MISSISSIPPI RIVER AND IL-
LINOIS WATERWAY SYSTEM. 
(a) DEFINITIONS.—In this section, the following defi-
nitions apply: 
(1) PLAN.—The term ‘‘Plan’’ means the pre-
ferred integrated plan contained in the document en-
titled ‘‘Integrated Feasibility Report and Pro-
grammatic Environmental Impact Statement for the 
UMR–IWW System Navigation Feasibility System’’ 
and dated April 29, 2004. 
(2) SECRETARY.—The term ‘‘Secretary’’ means 
the Secretary of the Army. 
(3) UPPER
MISSISSIPPI
RIVER
AND
ILLINOIS 
WATERWAY SYSTEM.—The term ‘‘Upper Mississippi 
River and Illinois Waterway System’’ means the 
projects for navigation and ecosystem restoration au-
thorized by Congress for—
(A) the segment of the Mississippi River 
from the confluence with the Ohio River, River 
Mile 0.0, to Upper St. Anthony Falls Lock in 
Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota, River Mile 
854.0; and 
(B) the Illinois Waterway from its con-
fluence with the Mississippi River at Grafton,
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(f) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendments made by
this section shall apply to production in taxable years be-
ginning after December 31, 2003.
SEC. 43002. TEMPORARY SUSPENSION OF LIMITATION
BASED ON 65 PERCENT OF TAXABLE INCOME
AND EXTENSION OF SUSPENSION OF TAX-
ABLE INCOME LIMIT WITH RESPECT TO MAR-
GINAL PRODUCTION.
(a) LIMITATION BASED ON 65 PERCENT OF TAX-
ABLE INCOME.—Subsection (d) of section 613A (relating
to limitation on percentage depletion in case of oil and
gas wells) is amended by adding at the end the following
new paragraph:
‘‘(6) TEMPORARY SUSPENSION OF TAXABLE IN-
COME LIMIT.—Paragraph (1) shall not apply to tax-
able years beginning after December 31, 2003, and
before January 1, 2007, including with respect to
amounts carried under the second sentence of para-
graph (1) to such taxable years.’’.
(b) EXTENSION OF SUSPENSION OF TAXABLE IN-
COME LIMIT WITH RESPECT
TO MARGINAL PRODUC-
TION.—Subparagraph (H) of section 613A(c)(6) (relating
to temporary suspension of taxable income limit with re-
spect to marginal production) is amended by striking
‘‘2004’’ and inserting ‘‘2007’’.
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Outdoor Recreation 
Jobs and Economic Impact Act of 2016’’. 
SEC. 2. ASSESSMENT AND ANALYSIS OF OUTDOOR RECRE-
ATION ECONOMY OF THE UNITED STATES. 
(a) ASSESSMENT AND ANALYSIS.—The Secretary of 
Commerce shall enter into a joint memorandum with the 
Secretary of Agriculture and the Secretary of the Interior 
to conduct, acting through the Director of the Bureau of 
Economic Analysis, an assessment and analysis of the out-
door recreation economy of the United States and the ef-
fects attributable to such economy on the overall economy 
of the United States. 
(b) CONSIDERATIONS.—In conducting the assess-
ment required by subsection (a), the Secretary of Com-
merce may consider employment, sales, and contributions 
to travel and tourism, and such other contributing compo-
nents of the outdoor recreation economy of the United 
States as the Secretary considers appropriate. 
(c) CONSULTATION.—In carrying out the assessment 
required by subsection (a), the Secretary of Commerce 
shall consult with— 
(1) the heads of such agencies and offices of 
the Federal Government as the Secretary considers 
appropriate, including the Secretary of Agriculture, 
the Secretary of the Interior, the Federal Recreation
Council, the Director of the Bureau of the Census, 
and the Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Sta-
tistics; and 
(2) representatives of businesses, including 
small business concerns, that engage in commerce in 
the outdoor recreation economy of the United 
States. 
(d) REPORT.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 2 years after 
the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary 
of Commerce shall submit to the appropriate com-
mittees of Congress a report on the findings of the 
Secretary with respect to the assessment conducted 
under subsection (a). 
(2) 
APPROPRIATE
COMMITTEES
OF
CON-
GRESS.—In this subsection, the term ‘‘appropriate 
committees of Congress’’ means— 
(A) the Committee on Commerce, Science, 
and Transportation of the Senate; 
(B) the Committee on Environment and 
Public Works of the Senate; 
(C) the Committee on Energy and Natural 
Resources of the Senate; 
(D) the Committee on Small Business and 
Entrepreneurship of the Senate;
(E) the Committee on Energy and Com-
merce of the House of Representatives; and 
(F) the Committee on Small Business of 
the House of Representatives. 
(e) SMALL BUSINESS CONCERN DEFINED.—In this 
section, the term ‘‘small business concern’’ has the mean-
ing given such term under section 3 of the Small Business 
Act (15 U.S.C. 632). 
(f) NO ADDITIONAL FUNDS AUTHORIZED.—No addi-
tional funds are authorized to carry out the requirements 
of this Act. Such requirements shall be carried out using 
amounts otherwise authorized. 
Passed the House of Representatives November 14, 
2016. 
Attest: 
Clerk.
114TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 4665 
AN ACT 
To require the Secretary of Commerce to conduct 
an assessment and analysis of the outdoor recre-
ation economy of the United States, and for 
other purposes.
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‘‘(2) EXCEPTION.—The exclusion under para-
graph (1) does not apply to any information re-
quired to be collected and disseminated—
‘‘(A) under the Securities Exchange Act of
1934 by a national securities exchange, a reg-
istered securities association, or a registered se-
curities information processor, subject to sec-
tion 1305(g) of this title; or
‘‘(B) under the Commodity Exchange Act
by a contract market, subject to section
1305(g) of this title.
‘‘(b) COMPUTER PROGRAMS.—
‘‘(1) PROTECTION NOT EXTENDED.—Subject to
paragraph (2), protection under this chapter shall
not extend to computer programs, including, but not
limited to, any computer program used in the manu-
facture, production, operation, or maintenance of a
collection of information, or any element of a com-
puter program necessary to its operation.
‘‘(2) INCORPORATED COLLECTIONS OF INFOR-
MATION.—A collection of information that is other-
wise subject to protection under this chapter is not
disqualified from such protection solely because it is
incorporated into a computer program.
SEC. 2. ASSESSMENT AND ANALYSIS OF OUTDOOR RECRE-
ATION ECONOMY OF THE UNITED STATES. 
(a) ASSESSMENT AND ANALYSIS.—The Secretary of 
Commerce, acting through the Director of the Bureau of 
Economic Analysis, shall conduct an assessment and anal-
ysis of the outdoor recreation economy of the United 
States and the effects attributable to such economy on the 
overall economy of the United States. 
(b) CONSIDERATIONS.—In conducting the assess-
ment under subsection (a), the Secretary may consider 
employment, sales, and contributions to travel and tour-
ism, and such other contributing components of the out-
door recreation economy of the United States as the Sec-
retary considers appropriate. 
(c) CONSULTATION.—In conducting the assessment 
under subsection (a), the Secretary shall consult with the 
following: 
(1) The heads of such agencies and offices of 
the Federal Government as the Secretary considers 
appropriate, including the Secretary of Agriculture, 
the Secretary of the Interior, the Director of the Bu-
reau of the Census, and the Commissioner of the 
Bureau of Labor Statistics. 
(2) Representatives of businesses, including 
small business concerns, that engage in commerce in 
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the outdoor recreation economy of the United 
States. 
(d) REPORT.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—Not later than December 31, 
2016, the Secretary of Commerce shall submit to the 
appropriate committees of Congress a report on the 
findings of the Secretary with respect to the assess-
ment conducted under subsection (a). 
(2) 
APPROPRIATE
COMMITTEES
OF
CON-
GRESS.—In this subsection, the term ‘‘appropriate 
committees of Congress’’ includes the following: 
(A) The Committee on Commerce, Science, 
and Transportation, the Committee on Environ-
ment and Public Works, the Committee on En-
ergy and Natural Resources, and the Com-
mittee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship 
of the Senate. 
(B) The Committee on Energy and Com-
merce and the Committee on Small Business of 
the House of Representatives. 
(e) SMALL BUSINESS CONCERN DEFINED.—In this 
section, the term ‘‘small business concern’’ has the mean-
ing given such term under section 3 of the Small Business 
Act (15 U.S.C. 632). 
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‘‘§ 1403. Revisions, adaptations, and rearrangements
‘‘Protection for a design under this chapter shall be
available notwithstanding the employment in the design
of subject matter excluded from protection under section
1402 if the design is a substantial revision, adaptation,
or rearrangement of such subject matter. Such protection
shall be independent of any subsisting protection in sub-
ject matter employed in the design, and shall not be con-
strued as securing any right to subject matter excluded
from protection under this chapter or as extending any
subsisting protection under this chapter.
‘‘§ 1404. Commencement of protection
‘‘The protection provided for a design under this
chapter shall commence upon the earlier of the date of
publication of the registration under section 1413(a) or
the date the design is first made public as defined by sec-
tion 1410(b).
‘‘§ 1405. Term of protection
‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—Subject to subsection (b), the
protection provided under this chapter for a design shall
continue for a term of 10 years beginning on the date of
the commencement of protection under section 1404.
‘‘(b) EXPIRATION.—All terms of protection provided
in this section shall run to the end of the calendar year
in which they would otherwise expire.
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cilities are unable to support the health care needs of 
members of the armed forces and covered beneficiaries. 
‘‘(2) Hospitals shall provide— 
‘‘(A) inpatient and outpatient health services to 
maintain medical readiness; and 
‘‘(B) such other programs and functions as the 
Secretary determines appropriate. 
‘‘(3) Hospitals shall consist of inpatient and out-
patient care facilities with limited specialty care that the 
Secretary determines— 
‘‘(A) is cost effective; or 
‘‘(B) is not available at civilian health care fa-
cilities in the area of the hospital. 
‘‘(d) AMBULATORY CARE CENTERS.—(1) The Sec-
retary of Defense shall maintain ambulatory care centers 
in areas where civilian health care facilities are able to 
support the health care needs of members of the armed 
forces and covered beneficiaries. 
‘‘(2) Ambulatory care centers shall provide the out-
patient health services required to maintain medical readi-
ness, including with respect to partnerships established 
pursuant to section 707 of the National Defense Author-
ization Act for Fiscal Year 2017.
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‘‘§ 1414. Certification of registration
‘‘Certificates of registration shall be issued in the
name of the United States under the seal of the Office
of the Administrator and shall be recorded in the official
records of the Office. The certificate shall state the name
of the useful article, the date of filing of the application,
the date of registration, and the date the design was made
public, if earlier than the date of filing of the application,
and shall contain a reproduction of the drawing or other
pictorial representation of the design. If a description of
the salient features of the design appears in the applica-
tion, the description shall also appear in the certificate.
A certificate of registration shall be admitted in any court
as prima facie evidence of the facts stated in the certifi-
cate.
‘‘§ 1415. Publication of announcements and indexes
‘‘(a) PUBLICATIONS OF THE ADMINISTRATOR.—The
Administrator shall publish lists and indexes of registered
designs and cancellations of designs and may also publish
the drawings or other pictorial representations of reg-
istered designs for sale or other distribution.
‘‘(b) FILE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF REGISTERED
DESIGNS.—The Administrator shall establish and main-
tain a file of the drawings or other pictorial representa-
tions of registered designs. The file shall be available for
the policies of local educational agencies served by 
the State educational agency; 
(4) upon request, provide each school employee 
who has had a criminal background check under 
paragraph (1) with a copy of the results of the 
criminal background check; 
(5) provide for a timely process, by which a 
school employee may appeal, but which does not per-
mit the employee to be employed as a school em-
ployee during such appeal, the results of a criminal 
background check conducted under paragraph (1) 
which prohibit the employee from being employed as 
a school employee under paragraph (2) to— 
(A) challenge the accuracy or completeness 
of the information produced by such criminal 
background check; and 
(B) establish or reestablish eligibility to be 
hired or reinstated as a school employee by 
demonstrating that the information is materi-
ally inaccurate or incomplete, and has been cor-
rected; 
(6) ensure that such policies and procedures are 
published on the website of the State educational 
agency and the website of each local educational 
agency served by the State educational agency; and 
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fiscal years 1987 through 1996, no less than 50 per-
cent in fiscal year 1999, and no less than 25 percent
in fiscal year 2000, but only if amounts appro-
priated pursuant to the first sentence of section
402(b) in each of fiscal years 1998, 1999, and 2000
exceed $800,000,000. If such amounts do not exceed
$800,000,000 in fiscal year 1998, 1999, or 2000,
the allocation unit of general local government may
receive its proportionate share of the amounts ap-
propriated which may be less than 75 percent of
such annual average amounts for fiscal year 1998,
less than 50 percent for fiscal year 1999, and less
than 25 percent for fiscal year 2000 as determined
by the Secretary.
‘‘(4) 
REDUCTION.—Notwithstanding 
para-
graphs (2) and (3), in any fiscal year, the Secretary
may provide a grant under this title for a State or
for an allocation unit of general local government in
an amount less than the amount allocated under
those paragraphs, if the Secretary determines, that
the jurisdiction has failed to comply with require-
ments of this title, or that such action is otherwise
appropriate.
‘‘(c) REALLOCATIONS.—
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‘‘(b) LEASE, SALE, OR OTHER TRANSFER OF ADDI-
TIONAL COPY OR ADAPTATION.—Any exact’’; and
(3) by adding at the end the following:
‘‘(c) MACHINE MAINTENANCE OR REPAIR.—Notwith-
standing the provisions of section 106, it is not an in-
fringement for the owner or lessee of a machine to make
or authorize the making of a copy of a computer program
if such copy is made solely by virtue of the activation of
a machine that lawfully contains an authorized copy of
the computer program, for purposes only of maintenance
or repair of that machine, if—
‘‘(1) such new copy is used in no other manner
and is destroyed immediately after the maintenance
or repair is completed; and
‘‘(2) with respect to any computer program or
part thereof that is not necessary for that machine
to be activated, such program or part thereof is not
accessed or used other than to make such new copy
by virtue of the activation of the machine.
‘‘(d) DEFINITIONS.—For purposes of this section—
‘‘(1) the ‘maintenance’ of a machine is the serv-
icing of the machine in order to make it work in ac-
cordance with its original specifications and any
changes to those specifications authorized for that
machine; and
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transmitting entity does not automatically
and intentionally cause any device receiv-
ing the transmission to switch from one
program channel to another; and
‘‘(iii) except as provided in section
1002(e), the transmission of the sound re-
cording is accompanied by the information
encoded in that sound recording, if any, by
or under the authority of the copyright
owner of that sound recording, that identi-
fies the title of the sound recording, the
featured recording artist who performs on
the sound recording, and related informa-
tion, including information concerning the
underlying musical work and its writer;
‘‘(B) in the case of a subscription trans-
mission not exempt under paragraph (1) by a
preexisting subscription service in the same
transmission medium used by such service on
July 31, 1998—
‘‘(i) the transmission does not exceed
the sound recording performance com-
plement;
‘‘(ii) the transmitting entity does not
cause to be published by means of an ad-
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vance program schedule or prior announce-
ment the titles of the specific sound re-
cordings or phonorecords embodying such
sound recordings to be transmitted; and
‘‘(C) in the case of an eligible nonsubscrip-
tion transmission or a subscription transmission
not exempt under paragraph (1) by a new sub-
scription service or by a preexisting subscription
service other than in the same transmission me-
dium used by such service on July 31, 1998—
‘‘(i) the transmission does not exceed
the sound recording performance com-
plement, except that this requirement shall
not apply in the case of a retransmission
of a broadcast transmission if the retrans-
mission is made by a transmitting entity
that does not have the right or ability to
control the programming of the broadcast
station making the broadcast transmission,
unless the broadcast station makes broad-
cast transmissions—
‘‘(I) in digital format that regu-
larly exceed the sound recording per-
formance complement; or
habitat that result from the incremental impact of the pro-
posed action when added to other past, present, and rea-
sonably foreseeable future actions, regardless of what per-
son undertakes such other actions.
‘‘(B) For purposes of subparagraph (A)—
‘‘(i) the term ‘impacts’ includes—
‘‘(I) the loss of individual members of the
species;
‘‘(II) diminishment of the species’ habitat,
both qualitatively and quantitatively;
‘‘(III) disruption of normal behavioral pat-
terns, including but not limited to breeding,
feeding, or sheltering; and
‘‘(IV) impairment of the species’ ability to
withstand random fluctuations in environmental
conditions;
‘‘(ii) the term ‘direct impacts’ means impacts
that are caused by the proposed action and that
occur at the same time and place as the proposed
action; and
‘‘(iii) the term ‘indirect impacts’ means impacts
that are caused by the proposed action and that
occur later in time than, or farther removed in dis-
tance from, the proposed action, but that are still
reasonably foreseeable.
cational agency, or local educational agency in the case 
of a local educational agency designated under State law, 
that receives funds under the Elementary and Secondary 
Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 6301 et seq.) shall have 
in effect policies and procedures that— 
(1) require that a criminal background check be 
conducted for each school employee that includes— 
(A) a search of the State criminal registry 
or repository of the State in which the school 
employee resides; 
(B) a search of State-based child abuse 
and neglect registries and databases of the 
State in which the school employee resides; 
(C) a Federal Bureau of Investigation fin-
gerprint check using the Integrated Automated 
Fingerprint Identification System; and 
(D) a search of the National Sex Offender 
Registry established under section 119 of the 
Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act of 
2006 (42 U.S.C. 16919); 
(2) prohibit the employment of a school em-
ployee as a school employee if such employee— 
(A) refuses to consent to a criminal back-
ground check under paragraph (1); 
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mation so extracted or used is time sensitive and has been
gathered by a news reporting entity, and the extraction
or use is part of a consistent pattern engaged in for the
purpose of direct competition.
‘‘(f) TRANSFER OF COPY.—Nothing in this chapter
shall restrict the owner of a particular lawfully made copy
of all or part of a collection of information from selling
or otherwise disposing of the possession of that copy.
‘‘§ 1304. Exclusions
‘‘(a) GOVERNMENT
COLLECTIONS
OF
INFORMA-
TION.—
‘‘(1) EXCLUSION.—Protection under this chap-
ter shall not extend to collections of information
gathered, organized, or maintained by or for a gov-
ernment entity, whether Federal, State, or local, in-
cluding any employee or agent of such entity, or any
person exclusively licensed by such entity, within the
scope of the employment, agency, or license. Nothing
in this subsection shall preclude protection under
this chapter for information gathered, organized, or
maintained by such an agent or licensee that is not
within the scope of such agency or license, or by a
Federal or State educational institution in the
course of engaging in education or scholarship.
H. R. 5105
One Hundred Eighth Congress
of the
United States of America
AT THE SECOND SESSION
Begun and held at the City of Washington on Tuesday,
the twentieth day of January, two thousand and four
An Act
To authorize the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution to carry out
construction and related activities in support of the collaborative Very Energetic
Radiation Imaging Telescope Array System (VERITAS) project on Kitt Peak near
Tucson, Arizona.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of
the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. AUTHORIZING BOARD OF REGENTS OF SMITHSONIAN
INSTITUTION 
TO 
CARRY 
OUT 
CONSTRUCTION 
AND
RELATED ACTIVITIES IN SUPPORT OF VERITAS ASTRO-
PHYSICAL OBSERVATORY PROJECT.
The Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution is author-
ized to carry out construction and related activities in support
of the collaborative Very Energetic Radiation Imaging Telescope
Array System (VERITAS) project on Kitt Peak near Tucson,
Arizona.
SEC. 2. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.
There is authorized to be appropriated $1,000,000 for fiscal
year 2005 to carry out section 1.
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
Vice President of the United States and
President of the Senate.