Title: To amend the Nutria Eradication and Control Act of 2003 to include California in the program, and for other purposes.
Policy area: Environmental Protection

Summary:
This bill reauthorizes through FY2025 and revises the Nutria Eradication and Control Act of 2003, which provided grants to Maryland and Louisiana for a program to eradicate or control nutria (a type of rodent). The program also provided grants to restore marshland damaged by nutria.
This bill revises the grant program, including by expanding the program to include grants for eradicating nutria in California as well as grants for restoring wetlands or agricultural lands damaged by nutria.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3399 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3399

  To amend the Nutria Eradication and Control Act of 2003 to include 
           California in the program, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             June 21, 2019

     Mr. Harder of California (for himself, Mr. Costa, Mr. Cox of 
California, and Mr. Garamendi) introduced the following bill; which was 
             referred to the Committee on Natural Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
  To amend the Nutria Eradication and Control Act of 2003 to include 
           California in the 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. NUTRIA ERADICATION IN CALIFORNIA.

    The Nutria Eradication and Control Act of 2003 (Public Law 108-16) 
is amended--
            (1) in section 2--
                    (A) in subsection (a)--
                            (i) in paragraph (2), by striking 
                        ``Maryland and Louisiana'' and inserting 
                        ``Maryland, Louisiana, and California''; and
                            (ii) in paragraph (3), by striking 
                        ``Louisiana. Consequently, marsh loss is 
                        accelerating.'' and inserting ``Louisiana and 
                        California. Consequently, marsh loss, loss of 
                        public and private wetlands, and loss of 
                        agricultural lands are accelerating.''; and
                    (B) in subsection (b), by striking ``the State of 
                Maryland and the State of Louisiana'' and inserting 
                ``Maryland, Louisiana, and California''; and
            (2) in section 3--
                    (A) by amending subsection (a) to read as follows:
    ``(a) Grant Authority.--The Secretary of the Interior (referred to 
in this Act as the `Secretary'), subject to the availability of 
appropriations, may provide financial assistance to Maryland, 
Louisiana, and California for a program to implement measures to 
eradicate or control nutria and restore marshland, public and private 
wetlands, and agricultural lands damaged by nutria.'';
                    (B) by amending subsection (b) to read as follows:
    ``(b) Goals.--The goals of the program shall be to--
            ``(1) eradicate nutria in Maryland and California;
            ``(2) eradicate or control nutria in Louisiana; and
            ``(3) restore marshland, public and private wetlands, and 
        agricultural lands damaged by nutria.''; and
                    (C) in subsection (f), by striking ``State of 
                Maryland'' and all that follows and inserting 
                ``Maryland program, $2,000,000 for the Louisiana 
                program, and $7,000,000 for the California program for 
                each of fiscal years 2020 through 2025.''
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