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Version 17 · Reported to House with amendment(s) · May 7, 2002
Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to provide financial assistance to the States of Maryland and Louisiana for a program to implement measures to: (1) eradicate nutria in Maryland; (2) eradicate or control nutria in Louisiana and other States; and (3) restore marshland damaged by nutria.Directs the Secretary to require that the program in Maryland consist of management, research, and public education activities carried out in accordance with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service document entitled "Eradication Strategies for Nutria in the Chesapeake and Delaware Bay Watersheds."Limits the Federal share of program costs to 75 percent. Prohibits use of more than five percent of such Federal assistance for administrative expenses.Authorizes appropriations.Directs the Secretary and the National Invasive Species Council to give consideration to the 2002 report for the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries titled "Nutria in Louisiana" and to develop a long-term nutria control program to significantly reduce and restore the damage nutria cause to coastal wetlands.
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Rep. Gilchrest, Wayne T. [R-MD-1] · R–MD
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Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 616.
Committee on Environment and Public Works. Reported by Senator Jeffords without amendment. Without written report.
Committee on Environment and Public Works. Reported by Senator Jeffords without amendment. Without written report.
Committee on Environment and Public Works. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.
Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
The title of the measure was amended. Agreed to without objection.
Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H2397)
Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote.(text: CR H2397)
DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 4044.
Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H2396-2398)
Mr. Souder moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended.
Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 263.
Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Resources. H. Rept. 107-442.
Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Resources. H. Rept. 107-442.
Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by Unanimous Consent.
Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
Forwarded by Subcommittee to Full Committee (Amended) by Voice Vote.
Subcommittee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
Subcommittee Hearings Held.
Referred to the Subcommittee on Fisheries Conservation, Wildlife and Oceans.
Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
Introduced in House
Introduced in House
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