IIB 
114TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 4582 
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 
JULY 6, 2016 
Received; read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural 
Resources 
AN ACT 
To exclude striped bass from the anadromous fish doubling 
requirement in section 3406(b)(1) of the Central Valley 
Project Improvement Act, 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 ‘‘Save Our Salmon Act’’ 
or the ‘‘SOS Act’’. 
SEC. 2. LEGISLATIVE FINDINGS. 
Congress finds the following: 
(1) California is home to many populations of 
native salmon and steelhead. 
(2) Many of the native salmon and steelhead 
populations in California are listed under the En-
dangered Species Act of 1973. 
(3) The Central Valley Project Improvement 
Act (CVPIA) required a doubling of natural produc-
tion of Central Valley populations of anadromous 
fish within 10 years. 
(4) Striped bass are anadromous fish indige-
nous to the East Coast of the United States and are 
not native to the State of California. 
(5) Striped bass were included in the CVPIA’s 
fish doubling goal even though they are not a native 
species. 
(6) Striped bass prey on native salmon and 
steelhead. 
(7) Predation poses a serious threat to federally 
protected juvenile salmon and other native fish in 
California. 
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(8) According to the National Marine Fisheries 
Service, reducing abundance of striped bass and 
other non-native predators must be achieved to pre-
vent extinction of Central Valley salmon and 
steelhead or to prevent the species from declining ir-
reversibly. 
(9) Therefore, the CVPIA’s fish-doubling goal 
for two competing species is contradictory and coun-
terproductive for salmon and steelhead recovery. 
SEC. 3. TREATMENT OF STRIPED BASS. 
(a) ANADROMOUS FISH.—Section 3403(a) of the 
Central Valley Project Improvement Act (title XXXIV of 
Public Law 102–575) is amended by striking ‘‘striped 
bass,’’ after ‘‘stocks of salmon (including steelhead),’’. 
(b) FISH
AND WILDLIFE RESTORATION ACTIVI-
TIES.—Section 3406(b) of the Central Valley Project Im-
provement Act (title XXXIV of Public Law 102–575) is 
amended by— 
(1) striking paragraphs (14) and (18); 
(2) redesignating paragraphs (15) through (17) 
as paragraphs (14) through (16), respectively; and 
(3) redesignating paragraphs (19) through (23) 
as paragraphs (17) through (21), respectively. 
(c) RESTORATION
FUND
ESTABLISHED.—Section 
3407(a) of the Central Valley Project Improvement Act 
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(title XXXIV of Public Law 102–575) is amended by 
striking ‘‘(10)–(18), and (20)–(22)’’ and inserting ‘‘(10)– 
(16), and (18)–(20)’’. 
Passed the House of Representatives July 5, 2016. 
Attest: 
KAREN L. HAAS, 
Clerk. 
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