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104TH CONGRESS
2D SESSION
H. R. 3487
To reauthorize the National Marine Sanctuaries Act, and for other purposes.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
MAY 16, 1996
Mr. SAXTON (for himself and Mr. FARR of California) introduced the following
bill; which was referred to the Committee on Resources
A BILL
To reauthorize the National Marine Sanctuaries 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,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘National Marine Sanc-
tuaries Preservation Act’’.
SEC. 2. AMENDMENT OF NATIONAL MARINE SANCTUARIES
ACT.
Except as otherwise expressly provided, whenever in
this Act an amendment or repeal is expressed in terms
of an amendment to, or repeal of, a section or other provi-
sion, the reference shall be considered to be made to a
section or other provision of National Marine Sanctuaries
Act (16 U.S.C. 1431–1445a).
SEC. 3. REAUTHORIZATION OF THE NATIONAL MARINE
SANCTUARIES ACT.
Section 313 (16 U.S.C. 1444) is amended to read as
follows:
‘‘SEC. 313. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.
‘‘There are authorized to be appropriated to the Sec-
retary to carry out this title—
‘‘(1) $12,000,000 for fiscal year 1997;
‘‘(2) $13,500,000 for fiscal year 1998; and
‘‘(3) $15,000,000 for fiscal year 1999.’’.
SEC. 4. MANAGEMENT, RECOVERY, AND PRESERVATION
PLAN FOR U.S.S. MONITOR.
The Secretary of Commerce shall, on or before May
1, 1997, prepare and submit to the Committee on Re-
sources of the House of Representatives a long-range,
comprehensive plan for the management, stabilization,
preservation, and recovery of artifacts and materials of the
United States ship Monitor.
SEC. 5. PUBLICATION OF NOTICE OF CERTAIN ADVISORY
COUNCIL MEETINGS.
Section 315(e)(3) (16 U.S.C. 1445a(e)(3)) is amend-
ed by inserting before the period at the end the following:
‘‘, except that in the case of a meeting of an Advisory
Council established to provide assistance regarding any in-
dividual national marine sanctuary the notice is not re-
quired to be published in the Federal Register.’’.
SEC. 6. ENHANCING SUPPORT FOR NATIONAL MARINE
SANCTUARIES.
Section 316 (16 U.S.C. 1445 note) is redesignated
as section 319, and the following new section is inserted
after section 315:
‘‘SEC. 316. ENHANCING SUPPORT FOR NATIONAL MARINE
SANCTUARIES.
‘‘(a) AUTHORITIES.—The Secretary may—
‘‘(1) create, adopt, and publish in the Federal
Register a symbol for the national marine sanctuary
program or for any individual national marine sanc-
tuary (or both);
‘‘(2) solicit persons to be designated as official
sponsors of the national marine sanctuary program
or of individual national marine sanctuaries;
‘‘(3) designate persons as official sponsors of
the national marine sanctuary program or of individ-
ual sanctuaries;
‘‘(4) authorize the manufacture, reproduction,
or use of a symbol published under paragraph (1),
by appropriate persons designated as sponsors of the
national marine sanctuary program or of any indi-
vidual national marine sanctuary, as applicable;
‘‘(5) establish and collect fees for manufacture,
reproduction, or use of symbols published under
paragraph (1), in the form of monetary payments or
in-kind contributions; and
‘‘(6) create, market, and sell products to pro-
mote the national marine sanctuary program or any
individual national marine sanctuary, and enter into
exclusive or nonexclusive agreements authorizing
persons to create, market, or sell such products.
‘‘(b) CONTRACT AUTHORITY.—The Secretary may
contract with any person for the creation of symbols or
the solicitation of official sponsors under subsection (a).
‘‘(c) RESTRICTIONS.—The Secretary shall restrict the
use of symbols published under subsection (a) and the des-
ignation of official sponsors of the national marine sanc-
tuary program or of any individual national marine sanc-
tuary, to ensure compatibility of a use or designation with
the purposes and policies of this title.
‘‘(d) PROPERTY OF THE UNITED STATES.—Any sym-
bol which is adopted and published in the Federal Register
by the Secretary under subsection (a) is deemed to be the
property of the United States.
‘‘(e) PROHIBITED ACTIVITIES.—It is unlawful—
‘‘(1) for any person who is an official sponsor
designated by the Secretary under subsection (a) to
influence or seek to influence any decision by the
Secretary or any other Federal official related to the
designation or management of a national marine
sanctuary, except to the extent that a person who is
not an official sponsor may do so;
‘‘(2) for any person who is not designated by
the Secretary under subsection (a) as an official
sponsor of the national marine sanctuaries program
or of an individual national marine sanctuary to rep-
resent himself as being such an official sponsor;
‘‘(3) for any person to manufacture, reproduce,
or use any symbol adopted and published by the Sec-
retary under subsection (a), if the person—
‘‘(A) is not an official sponsor designated
by the Secretary under subsection (a); or
‘‘(B) has not paid any fee established by
the Secretary for that manufacture, reproduc-
tion, or use; or
‘‘(4) to violate any regulation promulgated by
the Secretary under this section.
‘‘(f) NATIONAL MARINE SANCTUARIES ACCOUNT.—
‘‘(1) ESTABLISHMENT.—There is established in
the general fund of the Treasury a separate account,
which shall be known as the ‘National Marine Sanc-
tuaries Program Account’. The Account consists
of—
‘‘(A) a national marine sanctuaries pro-
gram subaccount; and
‘‘(B) a subaccount for each national ma-
rine sanctuary.
‘‘(2) DEPOSITS.—
‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—There shall be depos-
ited into the Account all amounts received by
the United States as fees under subsection
(a)(5) or as proceeds of products under sub-
section (a)(6).
‘‘(B) 
CREDITING
SUBACCOUNTS.—
Amounts deposited into the Account as pro-
ceeds of any symbol for, or product relating to,
the national marine sanctuary program gen-
erally shall be credited to the national marine
sanctuaries program subaccount. Amounts de-
posited into the Account as fees or other pro-
ceeds of any symbol for, or product relating to,
an individual national marine sanctuary shall be
credited to the subaccount for that national ma-
rine sanctuary.
‘‘(3) USE.—Amounts deposited into the Ac-
count and credited to the national marine sanc-
tuaries program subaccount may be used by the Sec-
retary without further appropriation for operations
and activities of the national marine sanctuaries pro-
gram generally. Amounts deposited into the Account
and credited to the subaccount for an individual na-
tional marine sanctuary may be used by the Sec-
retary without further appropriation for operations
and activities of that sanctuary.’’.
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