II 
Calendar No. 881 
110TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 1006 
[Report No. 110–421] 
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 
MARCH 20, 2007 
Received; read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, 
and Transportation 
JULY 15, 2008 
Reported by Mr. INOUYE, with an amendment 
[Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert the part printed in italic] 
AN ACT 
To amend the provisions of law relating to the John H. 
Prescott Marine Mammal Rescue Assistance Grant Pro-
gram, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
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SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Marine Mammal Res-
cue Assistance Amendments of 2007’’. 
SEC. 2. STRANDING AND ENTANGLEMENT RESPONSE. 
(a)
COLLECTION
AND
UPDATING
OF
INFORMA-
TION.—Section 402(b)(1)(A) of the Marine Mammal Pro-
tection Act of 1972 (16 U.S.C. 1421a(b)(1)(A)) is amend-
ed by inserting ‘‘or entangled’’ after ‘‘stranded’’. 
(b) ENTANGLEMENT RESPONSE AGREEMENTS.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—Section 403 of such Act (16 
U.S.C. 1421b) is amended— 
(A) by amending the section heading to 
read as follows: 
‘‘SEC.
403.
STRANDING
OR
ENTANGLEMENT
RESPONSE 
AGREEMENTS.’’; 
and 
(B) in subsection (a) by inserting ‘‘or en-
tanglement’’ before the period. 
(2) CLERICAL AMENDMENT.—The table of con-
tents at the end of the first section is amended by 
striking the item relating to section 403 and insert-
ing the following: 
‘‘Sec. 403. Stranding or entanglement response agreements.’’. 
(c) LIABILITY.—Section 406(a) of such Act (16 
U.S.C. 1421e(a)) is amended by inserting ‘‘or entangle-
ment’’ after ‘‘stranding’’. 
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(d) ENTANGLEMENT DEFINED.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—Section 410 of such Act (16 
U.S.C. 1421h) is amended— 
(A)
by
redesignating
paragraphs
(1) 
through (6) in order as paragraphs (2) through 
(7); and 
(B) by inserting before paragraph (2) (as 
so redesignated) the following: 
‘‘(1) The term ‘entanglement’ means an event 
in the wild in which a living or dead marine mammal 
has gear, rope, line, net, or other material wrapped 
around or attached to it and is— 
‘‘(A) on a beach or shore of the United 
States; or 
‘‘(B) in waters under the jurisdiction of 
the United States.’’. 
(2)
CONFORMING
AMENDMENT.—Section 
408(a)(2)(B)(i) of such Act (16 U.S.C. 1421f– 
1(a)(2)(B)(i))
is
amended
by
striking
‘‘section 
410(6)’’ and inserting ‘‘section 410(7)’’. 
(e) JOHN H. PRESCOTT MARINE MAMMAL RESCUE 
ASSISTANCE GRANT PROGRAM.— 
(1) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS FOR 
GRANT PROGRAM.—Section 408(h) of such Act (16 
U.S.C. 1421f–1(h)) is amended— 
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(A) by striking ‘‘$5,000,000 for each of 
fiscal years 2001 through 2003’’ and inserting 
‘‘$7,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2007 
through 2010’’; and 
(B)
in
paragraph
(1)
by
striking 
‘‘$4,000,000’’ and inserting ‘‘$6,000,000’’. 
(2) ADMINISTRATIVE COSTS AND EXPENSES.— 
Section 408 of such Act (16 U.S.C. 1421f–1) is 
amended— 
(A) by adding at the end of subsection 
(a)(1) the following: ‘‘All funds available to im-
plement this section shall be distributed to eligi-
ble stranding network participants for the pur-
poses set forth in this paragraph and paragraph 
(2), except as provided in subsection (f).’’; and 
(B) by amending subsection (f) to read as 
follows: 
‘‘(f) ADMINISTRATIVE COSTS AND EXPENSES.—Of 
the amounts available each fiscal year to carry out this 
section, the Secretary may expend not more than 6 per-
cent or $80,000, whichever is greater, to pay the adminis-
trative costs and administrative expenses to implement the 
grant program under subsection (a). Any such funds re-
tained by the Secretary for a fiscal year for such costs 
and expenses that are not used for such costs and ex-
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