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Union Calendar No. 467
106TH CONGRESS
2D SESSION
H. R. 2798
[Report No. 106–806]
To authorize the Secretary of Commerce to provide financial assistance to
the States of Alaska, Washington, Oregon, and California for salmon
habitat restoration projects in coastal waters and upland drainages.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
AUGUST 5, 1999
Mr. THOMPSON of California (for himself, Mr. YOUNG of Alaska, Mr. GEORGE
MILLER of California, Ms. DUNN, Mr. HINCHEY, Mr. HERGER, Mr.
DEFAZIO, Mr. METCALF, Mr. DOOLEY of California, Mr. DOOLITTLE,
Mr. UDALL of Colorado, Mr. POMBO, Mr. UDALL of New Mexico, Mr.
WU, Ms. WOOLSEY, Ms. HOOLEY of Oregon, Mr. BAIRD, Mr. WALDEN
of Oregon, Mr. BLUMENAUER, Mr. DICKS, Ms. ESHOO, Mr. STARK, Ms.
PELOSI, and Mrs. TAUSCHER) introduced the following bill; which was re-
ferred to the Committee on Resources
SEPTEMBER 6, 2000
Additional sponsors: Mr. GALLEGLY, Mr. GREENWOOD, Mr. DIXON, Mrs.
CAPPS, Mr. KUYKENDALL, Mr. BILBRAY, Mr. CUNNINGHAM, Mr. CAL-
VERT, Mr. LEWIS of California, Mr. MCKEON, Mr. RADANOVICH, Mr.
HORN, Mrs. BONO, Mr. HUNTER, Mr. CONDIT, Mr. SHERMAN, Mr. MAT-
SUI, Mr. FILNER, Ms. SANCHEZ, Mrs. NAPOLITANO, Ms. LOFGREN, Ms.
ROYBAL-ALLARD, Mr. LANTOS, Mr. FARR of California, Ms. LEE, Ms.
MILLENDER-MCDONALD, Mr. BECERRA, Mr. BERMAN, Mr. MARTINEZ,
Ms. WATERS, Mr. WAXMAN, Mr. REYES, Mr. MCDERMOTT, Mr. ROGAN,
Mr. INSLEE, and Mr. SMITH of Washington
SEPTEMBER 6, 2000
Reported with an amendment, committed to the Committee of the Whole
House on the State of the Union, and ordered to be printed
[Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert the part printed in italic]
[For text of introduced bill, see copy of bill as introduced on August 5, 1999]
A BILL
To authorize the Secretary of Commerce to provide financial
assistance to the States of Alaska, Washington, Oregon,
and California for salmon habitat restoration projects
in coastal waters and upland drainages.
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 ‘‘Pacific Salmon Recovery
Act’’.
SEC. 2. SALMON CONSERVATION AND SALMON HABITAT
RESTORATION ASSISTANCE.
(a) REQUIREMENT TO PROVIDE ASSISTANCE.—Sub-
ject to the availability of appropriations, the Secretary of
Commerce shall provide financial assistance in accordance
with this Act to qualified States and qualified tribal govern-
ments for salmon conservation and salmon habitat restora-
tion activities.
(b) ALLOCATION.—Of the amounts available to provide
assistance under this section each fiscal year (after the ap-
plication of section 3(g)), the Secretary—
(1) shall allocate 85 percent among qualified
States, in equal amounts; and
(2) shall allocate 15 percent among qualified
tribal governments, in amounts determined by the
Secretary.
(c) TRANSFER.—
(1) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary shall promptly
transfer—
(A) to a qualified State that has submitted
a Conservation and Restoration Plan under sec-
tion 3(a) amounts allocated to the qualified
State under subsection (b)(1) of this section, un-
less the Secretary determines, within 30 days
after the submittal of the plan to the Secretary,
that the plan is inconsistent with the require-
ments of this Act; and
(B) to a qualified tribal government that
has entered into a memorandum of under-
standing with the Secretary under section 3(b)
amounts allocated to the qualified tribal govern-
ment under subsection (b)(2) of this section.
(2) TRANSFERS
TO
QUALIFIED
STATES.—The
Secretary shall make the transfer under paragraph
(1)(A)—
(A) to the Washington State Salmon Recov-
ery Board, in the case of amounts allocated to
Washington;