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104TH CONGRESS
2D SESSION
H. R. 4139
To reauthorize and amend the Atlantic Striped Bass Conservation Act and
the Anadromous Fish Conservation Act.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
SEPTEMBER 24, 1996
Mr. SAXTON introduced the following bill; which was referred to the
Committee on Resources
A BILL
To reauthorize and amend the Atlantic Striped Bass Con-
servation Act and the Anadromous Fish Conservation
Act.
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 ‘‘Atlantic Striped Bass
Conservation Act Amendments of 1996’’.
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 fiscal year 1997,’’.
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(16 U.S.C. 1851 note) are repealed.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.
Section 6 of the Act entitled ‘‘An Act to authorize
appropriations to carry out the Atlantic Striped Bass Con-
servation Act for fiscal years 1989 through 1991, and for
other purposes’’ (approved November 3, 1988; Public Law
100–589; 102 Stat. 2986)—
(1) is amended by striking subsection (g);
(2) as so amended, is transferred from that Act
to the Atlantic Striped Bass Conservation Act (16
U.S.C. 1851 note);
(3) shall appear immediately after section 8 of
the Atlantic Striped Bass Conservation Act, as
amended by section 4 of this Act; and
(4) 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 ‘‘fiscal year
1997’’.
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