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Calendar No. 433 
109TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 518 
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 
MAY 17, 2006 
Received; read twice and placed on the calendar 
AN ACT 
To require the Secretary of the Interior to refine the Depart-
ment of the Interior program for providing assistance 
for the conservation of neotropical migratory birds. 
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 ‘‘Neotropical Migratory 
Bird Conservation Improvement Act of 2006’’. 
SEC. 2. AMENDMENTS TO NEOTROPICAL MIGRATORY BIRD 
CONSERVATION ACT. 
(a) FINDINGS.—Section 2(1) of the Neotropical Mi-
gratory Bird Conservation Act (16 U.S.C. 6101(1)) is 
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amended by inserting ‘‘but breed in Canada and the 
United States’’ after ‘‘the Caribbean’’. 
(b) PURPOSES.—Section 3(2) of such Act (16 U.S.C. 
6102(2)) is amended by inserting ‘‘Canada,’’ after 
‘‘United States,’’. 
(c) DEFINITION OF CARIBBEAN.—Section 4 of such 
Act (16 U.S.C. 6103) is amended— 
(1) by redesignating paragraphs (2) and (3) as 
paragraphs (3) and (5), respectively; 
(2) by inserting after paragraph (1) the fol-
lowing: 
‘‘(2) CARIBBEAN.—The term ‘Caribbean’ in-
cludes Puerto Rico and the United States Virgin Is-
lands.’’; and 
(3) by inserting after paragraph (3), as so re-
designated, the following: 
‘‘(4) FUND.—The term ‘Fund’ means the 
Neotropical Migratory Bird Conservation Fund es-
tablished by section 9(a).’’. 
(d) AUTHORIZATION
OF PROJECTS
TO ENHANCE 
CONSERVATION IN CANADA.—Section 5(c)(2) of such Act 
(16 U.S.C. 6104(c)(2)) is amended by inserting ‘‘Can-
ada,’’ after ‘‘the United States,’’. 
(e) COST SHARING.—Section 5(e) of such Act (16 
U.S.C. 6104(e)) is amended— 
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(1) in paragraph (1) by striking ‘‘25 percent’’ 
and inserting ‘‘50 percent’’; and 
(2) in paragraph (2) by amending subpara-
graph (B) to read as follows: 
‘‘(B) FORM OF PAYMENT.— 
‘‘(i) 
PROJECTS
IN
THE
UNITED 
STATES
AND
CANADA.—The non-Federal 
share required to be paid for a project car-
ried out in the United States or Canada 
shall be paid in cash. 
‘‘(ii) PROJECTS
IN
LATIN
AMERICA 
AND
THE
CARIBBEAN.—The non-Federal 
share required to be paid for a project car-
ried out in Latin America or the Caribbean 
may be paid in cash or in kind.’’. 
(f) ADVISORY GROUP.— 
(1) COMPOSITION.—Section 7(b)(1) of such Act 
(16 U.S.C. 6106(b)(1)) is amended by adding at the 
end the following: ‘‘The advisory group as a whole 
shall have expertise in the methods and procedures 
set forth in section 4(2) in each country and region 
of the Western Hemisphere’’. 
(2) ENCOURAGEMENT TO CONVENE.—The Sec-
retary of the Interior is encouraged to convene an 
advisory group under section 7(b)(1) of such Act by 
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