H. R. 3679
One Hundred Third Congress
of the
United States of America
AT THE SECOND SESSION
Begun and held at the City of Washington on Tuesday,
the twenty-fifth day of January, one thousand nine hundred and ninety-four
An Act
To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to carry out a program to be known
as the Junior Duck Stamp Conservation and Design Program, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of
the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Junior Duck Stamp Conservation
and Design Program Act of 1994’’.
SEC. 2. ESTABLISHMENT OF PROGRAM.
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary of the Interior (in this Act
referred to as the ‘‘Secretary’’) may carry out in accordance with
this Act a program to be known as the ‘‘Junior Duck Stamp Con-
servation and Design Program’’ (in this Act referred to as the
‘‘Program’’) to accomplish the goals of—
(1) providing to school children environmental education
opportunities relating to the conservation and management
of migratory birds; and
(2) increasing the capacity for schools, States, and other
educational programs to conduct conservation and education
programs.
(b) PROGRAM FEATURES.—The Program shall consist of—
(1) conducting in all interested States the activities which
on the day before the date of the enactment of this Act are
conducted under the program known as the Junior Duck Stamp
Conservation and Design Program;
(2) other activities authorized under the Program by this
or any other Act; and
(3) any other activity necessary to carry out the conserva-
tion and education goals of the Program.
(c) EFFORT TO CONDUCT PROGRAM IN ALL STATES.—
(1) IN
GENERAL.—The Secretary shall take appropriate
steps to seek to conduct the Program in all of the 50 States.
(2) ANNUAL REPORT.—The Secretary shall annually submit
a report to the Congress on the status of the Program in
each of the 50 States.
SEC. 3. JUNIOR DUCK STAMP.
(a) COMPETITION.—As part of the Program, the Secretary may
annually conduct a competition to—
(1) solicit the submission by students at elementary and
secondary schools of designs relating to conservation of migra-
tory birds; and
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(2) select winning designs from among those submissions
for use for licensing and marketing under subsection (b).
(b) LICENSING AND MARKETING OF DESIGN OF JUNIOR DUCK
STAMPS.—As part of the Program, the Secretary may—
(1) license and market winning designs selected in competi-
tions under subsection (a); and
(2) license and market stamps bearing those designs, which
shall be known as Junior Duck Stamps.
(c) USE OF PROCEEDS FROM LICENSING AND MARKETING OF
JUNIOR DUCK STAMPS AND JUNIOR DUCK STAMP DESIGNS.—Amounts
received under subsection (b)—
(1) shall be available to the Secretary until expended, with-
out further appropriations, solely for—
(A) awards and scholarships to individuals who submit
designs in competitions under subsection (a), that are—
(i) selected in such a competition as winning
designs; or
(ii) otherwise determined in such a competition
to be superior;
(B) awards to schools and other participants to further
education activities related to the conservation education
goals of the Program; and
(C) expenses for licensing and marketing under sub-
section (b); and
(2) may not be used for administrative expenses of the
Program.
SEC. 4. ACCEPTANCE OF GIFTS, DEVISES, AND BEQUESTS.
The Secretary may accept and use any gift, devise, or bequest
of personal property, or proceeds thereof, for the purpose of funding
the activities described in section 3(c)(1) (A) and (B).
SEC. 5. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.
There are authorized to be appropriated to the Secretary for
administrative expenses of the Program $250,000 for each of the
fiscal years 1995 through 2000.
SEC. 6. ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION CENTER AND REFUGE HEAD-
QUARTERS AT JOHN HEINZ NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE
AT TINICUM.
(a) IN GENERAL.—Notwithstanding other laws and subject to
subsection (b), the Secretary of the Interior, acting through the
Director of the United States Fish and Wildlife Service, may trans-
fer to the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation the Cusano
bequest.
(b) CONDITIONS OF TRANSFER.—As a condition of transferring
the Cusano bequest under subsection (a), the Secretary of the
Interior shall require the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation
to enter into an agreement under which the Foundation is required
to—
(1) solicit additional non-Federal contributions to provide
a dollar for dollar match of the Cusano bequest;
(2) manage the Cusano bequest and those contributions
in accordance with all applicable requirements of the National
Fish and Wildlife Foundation Establishment Act (16 U.S.C.
3701 et seq.);
(3) use all amounts and proceeds from the Cusano bequest
and any non-Federal contributions received pursuant to para-
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graph (1) for the purpose of designing and constructing a facility
for an environmental education center and refuge headquarters
on lands located within the John Heinz National Wildlife Ref-
uge at Tinicum; and
(4) donate the facility to the United States Fish and Wildlife
Service upon completion of its construction.
(c) CUSANO BEQUEST DEFINED.—For purposes of this section,
the term ‘‘Cusano bequest’’ means the amounts totaling approxi-
mately $2,473,971 which were donated to the Department of the
Interior in 1994 by Mr. Antonio Cusano of Crum Lynne, Pennsylva-
nia, and includes all proceeds derived from such amounts in the
period since the donation was made.
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
Vice President of the United States and
President of the Senate.