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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 CONSERVATION STAMP TO FUND ACQUI-
SITION OF CONSERVATION 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 Sec-
retary may reduce the price of each stamp sold under the 
provisions of this section for a hunting year if the Sec-
retary 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)— 
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(A) in subsection (a)(3), by inserting be-
fore the period the following: ‘‘, in which there 
shall be a subaccount to which the Secretary of 
the Treasury shall transfer all amounts in ex-
cess 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 ‘‘para-
graph (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 subaccount referred to in subsection (a)(3) shall 
be used by the Secretary solely to acquire easements 
in real property in the United States for conserva-
tion of migratory birds.’’. 
SEC. 3. ANNUAL REPORT ON EXPENDITURES. 
Section 4 of the Migratory Bird Hunting and Con-
servation Stamp Act (16 U.S.C. 718d) is further amend-
ed— 
(1) in subsection (c)— 
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(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 wet-
lands conservation projects for migratory bird con-
servation 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 acquisition; 
‘‘(3) an analysis of the refuge lands opened, 
and refuge lands closed, for hunting and fishing in 
the year covered by the report, including— 
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‘‘(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 fish-
ing, in the year covered by the report; and 
‘‘(5) a separate report on the hunting and fish-
ing status of those lands added to the system in the 
year covered by the report.’’. 
SEC. 4. EXEMPTION FOR TAKINGS BY RURAL ALASKA SUB-
SISTENCE USERS. 
Section 1(a)(2) of the Migratory Bird Hunting and 
Conservation Stamp Act (16 U.S.C. 718a(a)(2)) is amend-
ed by striking ‘‘or’’ after the semicolon at the end of sub-
paragraph (B), by striking the period at the end of sub-
paragraph (C) and inserting ‘‘; or’’, and by adding at the 
end the following: 
‘‘(D) by a rural Alaska resident for sub-
sistence uses (as that term is defined in section 
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803 of the Alaska National Interest Lands Con-
servation Act (16 U.S.C. 3113)).’’. 
Passed the House of Representatives November 17, 
2014. 
Attest: 
KAREN L. HAAS, 
Clerk. 
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