104TH CONGRESS
1ST SESSION
H. R. 1139
AN ACT
To amend the Atlantic Striped Bass Conservation 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 ‘‘Striped Bass Conserva-
tion Act Amendments of 1995’’.
SEC. 2. REAUTHORIZATION.
Section 7(a) of the Atlantic Striped Bass Conserva-
tion Act (16 U.S.C. 1851 note) is amended by striking
‘‘For each of fiscal years 1986,’’ and all that follows
through ‘‘1994,’’ and inserting ‘‘For each of fiscal years
1995 and 1996,’’.
SEC. 3. TECHNICAL AND CONFORMING AMENDMENTS.
(a) COMMISSION MONITORING OF IMPLEMENTATION
OF INTERSTATE PLAN.—Section 4(a)(1) of the Atlantic
Striped Bass Conservation Act (16 U.S.C. 1851 note) is
amended in the material preceding subparagraph (A) by
striking ‘‘of fiscal year 1987, and of each fiscal year there-
after,’’ and inserting ‘‘of each fiscal year,’’.
(b) REPEAL OF INOPERATIVE PROVISIONS.—Sections
8 and 10 of the Atlantic Striped Bass Conservation Act
(16 U.S.C. 1851 note) are repealed.
SEC. 4. PUBLIC PARTICIPATION IN PREPARATION OF
PLANS AND AMENDMENTS TO PLANS FOR AT-
LANTIC STRIPED BASS.
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Atlantic Striped Bass Con-
servation Act (16 U.S.C. 1851 note), as amended by sec-
tion 3(b) of this Act, is further amended by adding after
section 7 the following new section:
‘‘SEC. 8. PUBLIC PARTICIPATION IN PREPARATION OF
PLANS AND AMENDMENTS TO PLANS FOR AT-
LANTIC STRIPED BASS.
‘‘The Commission shall establish standards and pro-
cedures to ensure that the Commission provides an ade-
quate opportunity for public participation in the prepara-
tion of any plan for the management of Atlantic Striped
Bass and any amendment to such a plan (including any
amendment to the Interstate Fisheries Management Plan
for Striped Bass, dated October 1, 1981), including public
hearings and procedures for the submission of written
comments to the Commission.’’.
(b) DEADLINE.—Within 6 months after the date of
the enactment of this Act, the Atlantic States Marine
Fisheries Commission shall issue standards and proce-
dures under section 8 of the Atlantic Striped Bass Con-
servation Act (16 U.S.C. 1851 note), as amended by sub-
section (a) of this section.
SEC. 5. TRANSFER OF EXISTING PROVISION TO ATLANTIC
STRIPED BASS CONSERVATION ACT.
So much of section 6 of the Act entitled ‘‘An Act to
authorize appropriations to carry out the Atlantic Striped
Bass Conservation Act for fiscal years 1989 through
1991, and for other purposes’’ (approved November 3,
1988; Public Law 100–589; 102 Stat. 2986) as precedes
subsection (g) of that section—
(1) is transferred from that Act to the Atlantic
Striped Bass Conservation Act (16 U.S.C. 1851
note);
(2) shall appear immediately after section 8 of
the Atlantic Striped Bass Conservation Act, as
amended by section 4 of this Act; and
(3) is redesignated as section 9 of the Atlantic
Striped Bass Conservation Act.
SEC. 6. AMENDMENT AND EXTENSION OF AUTHORIZATION
FOR 
ANADROMOUS 
FISH 
CONSERVATION
ACT.
(a) SCOPE OF STUDIES.—Section 7(a) of the Anad-
romous Fish Conservation Act (16 U.S.C. 757g(a)) is
amended by striking ‘‘and’’ after the semicolon at the end
of paragraph (2), by striking the period at the end of para-
graph (3) and inserting ‘‘; and’’, and by adding at the
end the following new paragraph:
‘‘(4) the effects of water quality and other habi-
tat changes on the recruitment, spawning potential,
mortality rates, and population abundance of the
Delaware River striped bass population.’’.
(b) EXTENSION OF AUTHORIZATION.—Section 7(d)
of the Anadromous Fish Conservation Act (16 U.S.C.
757g(d)) is amended by striking ‘‘each of the fiscal years
1991, 1992, 1993, and 1994’’ and inserting ‘‘each of the
fiscal years 1995, 1996, 1997, and 1998’’.
Passed the House of Representatives May 9, 1995.
Attest:
Clerk.
104TH CONGRESS
1ST SESSION
H. R. 1139
AN ACT
To amend the Atlantic Striped Bass Conservation
Act, and for other purposes.