National Mitigation Fisheries Coordination Act

Bill: 112-hr-5931
Sponsor: Rep. Crawford, Eric A. "Rick" [R-AR-1]
Introduced: 2012-06-08 in the House
Policy area: Water Resources Development
Subjects: Arkansas
California
Colorado
Dams and canals
Electric power generation and transmission
Fishes
Georgia
Intergovernmental relations
Kentucky
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Missouri
Montana
Nevada
North Dakota
Pennsylvania
South Dakota
Tennessee
User charges and fees
Utah
Water resources funding
Water use and supply
West Virginia
Wisconsin
Wyoming

Summary:
action_date: 2012-06-08
text: 
National Mitigation Fisheries Coordination Act - Directs the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) to impose a charge for conducting mitigation fishery activities in connection with federal water resources development projects carried out by water development agencies (Army Corps of Engineers, the Bureau of Reclamation, or the Tennessee Valley Authority [TVA]). Requires such agencies to pay the charge in accordance with a fishery mitigation plan developed and approved by the USFWS Director and the agency head.
 
Defines "mitigation fishery activities" as rearing and stocking of native and nonnative fish to replace or maintain fishery resources or harvest levels lost as a result of such a project, including project planning, population assessment and evaluation, genetic monitoring, broodstock development, and fish health sampling.
 
Requires USFWS's charges to be reasonably related to expenditures necessary to: (1) operate, maintain, and rehabilitate certain USFWS-owned and -operated mitigation fishery facilities, hatcheries, and health centers; and (2) conduct mitigation fishery activities, including expenditures for personnel, transportation, utilities, contractual services, fish feed, supplies, equipment, routine maintenance, deferred maintenance, fish eggs, technical support, fish health, management and administration, planning, and hatchery product evaluations.
 
Permits a water development agency, if it collects reimbursements from a power management agency for the ongoing costs of maintaining and operating a federal water resources development project, to include the costs associated with the project's fishery mitigation activities.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-06-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water and Power.
action_date: 2012-06-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Fisheries, Wildlife, Oceans, and Insular Affairs.
action_date: 2012-06-11
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.
action_date: 2012-06-08
text: Referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committee on Natural Resources, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2012-06-08
text: Referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committee on Natural Resources, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2012-06-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2012-06-08
text: Introduced in House