Junior Duck Stamp Conservation and Design Program Act of 1994
PL 103-340 (H.R.3679), enacted 10/06/1994

PUBLIC LAW 103-340—OCT. 6, 1994 
108 STAT. 3119 
Public Law 103-340 
103d Congress 
An Act 
To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to carry out a program to be known 
Oct. 6, 1994 
as the Junior Duck Stamp Conservation and Design Program, and for other purposes. 
[H.R. 3679] 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of 
the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
Junior Duck 
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SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
Conservation 
and Design 
This Act may be cited as the "Junior Duck Stamp Conservation 
Program 
and Design Program Act of 1994". 
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SEC. 2. ESTABLISHMENT OF PROGRAM. 
16 USC 719. 
(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; £ind 
(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. 
16 USC 719a. 
(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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Fellowships and 
scholarships. 
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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 
desi^s; 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 £ind 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 
ATTINICUM. 
(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 totsding approxi-
mately $2,473,971 which were donated to the Department of the 
Interior in 1994 by Mr. Antonio CusEino of Crum Lynne, Pennsylva-
nia, and includes all proceeds derived from such amounts in the 
period since the donation was made. 
Approved October 6, 1994. 
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY—H.R. 3679: 
HOUSE REPORTS: No. 103-521 (Comm. on Merchant Marine and Fisheries). 
SENATE REPORTS: No. 103-363 (Comm. on Environment and Public Works). 
CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, Vol. 140 (1994): 
May 23, considered and passed House. 
Sept. 21, considered and peissed Senate.