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119TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 3858 
To amend the Dingell-Johnson Sport Fish Restoration Act with respect to 
sport fish restoration and recreational boating safety, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JUNE 10, 2025 
Mrs. DINGELL (for herself and Mr. WITTMAN) introduced the following bill; 
which was referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addi-
tion to the Committees on Transportation and Infrastructure, and Ways 
and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, 
in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the juris-
diction of the committee concerned 
A BILL 
To amend the Dingell-Johnson Sport Fish Restoration Act 
with respect to sport fish restoration and recreational 
boating safety, and for other purposes. 
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 ‘‘Sport Fish Restora-
tion, Recreational Boating Safety, and Wildlife Restora-
tion Act of 2025’’. 
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SEC. 2. DIVISION OF ANNUAL APPROPRIATIONS. 
Section 4 of the Dingell-Johnson Sport Fish Restora-
tion Act (16 U.S.C. 777c) is amended— 
(1) in subsection (a) by striking ‘‘2026’’ and in-
serting ‘‘2031’’; and 
(2) in subsection (b)— 
(A) in paragraph (1)(A) by striking 
‘‘2026’’ and inserting ‘‘2031’’; and 
(B) in paragraph (2)(A), by striking 
‘‘2026’’ and inserting ‘‘2031’’. 
SEC. 3. FUNDING FOR INTERSTATE FISHERIES COMMIS-
SION ACTIVITIES. 
Section 14(e) of the Dingell-Johnson Sport Fish Res-
toration Act (16 U.S.C. 777m(e)) is amended— 
(1) by striking ‘‘Not more than $1,200,000 of 
each’’ and inserting ‘‘Each’’; and 
(2) in paragraph (1), by striking ‘‘$200,000’’ 
and inserting ‘‘The greater amount of either 0.0375 
percent of such appropriation or $200,000’’. 
SEC. 4. BOATING INFRASTRUCTURE PRIORITIES. 
Section 7404 of the Sportfishing and Boating Safety 
Act of 1998 (16 U.S.C. 777g–1) is amended— 
(1) in subsection (d)(2)— 
(A) subparagraph (B) by striking ‘‘and’’; 
(B) in subparagraph (C) by striking the 
period and inserting ‘‘; and’’; and 
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(C) by adding at the end the following new 
subparagraph: 
‘‘(D) consist of the construction, renova-
tion, or maintenance of alternative fuel facilities 
or transportation of alternative marine fuels to 
marine fuel facility for use by transient 
nontrailerable recreational vessels.’’; and 
(2) in subsection (e)— 
(A) in paragraph (2) by striking ‘‘and’’; 
(B) in paragraph (3) by striking the period 
and inserting a semicolon; and 
(C) by inserting after paragraph (3) the 
following: 
‘‘(4) ‘alternative fuel station facility’ means a 
facility that has a bulk fuel storage tank to dispense 
drop-in alternative marine fuels into marine vessels; 
‘‘(5) ‘alternative marine fuels’ means motor 
fuels derived from cooking oil waste, animal fats, 
plant-based materials or other production methods 
that meet the requirements of a drop-in fuel for gas-
oline or diesel marine engines; 
‘‘(6) ‘drop-in fuels’ means finished gasoline with 
renewable content of at least 12.5 percent by volume 
not exceeding 3.7 percent oxygen by weight for use 
in marine applications meeting ASTM D4814 speci-
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fications. Renewable diesel up to 100 percent by vol-
ume and biodiesel blends up to 5 percent by volume 
meeting ASTM D975 paraffinic fuel specifications; 
and 
‘‘(7) ‘facility’ means an alternative marine fuel 
station.’’. 
SEC. 5. THREE PERCENT RATE FOR PORTABLE, ELEC-
TRONICALLY-AERATED BAIT CONTAINERS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 4161(a) of the Internal 
Revenue Code of 1986 is amended by redesignating para-
graph (4) as paragraph (5) and by inserting after para-
graph (3) the following new paragraph: 
‘‘(4) 3 PERCENT RATE FOR PORTABLE, ELEC-
TRONICALLY-AERATED
BAIT
CONTAINERS.—In the 
case of portable, electronically aerated bait con-
tainers, paragraph (1) shall be applied by sub-
stituting ‘3 percent’ for ‘10 percent’.’’. 
(b) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendments made by 
this section shall apply to articles sold by the manufac-
turer, producer, or importer after the date of the enact-
ment of this Act. 
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