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Version 35 · Passed Senate amended · Nov 19, 1999
Glacier Bay National Park Resource Management Act of 1999 - Requires the Secretary of the Interior to allow for commercial fishing in the outer waters of the Glacier Bay National Park (Alaska) in accordance with a management plan to be developed by the Secretary and the State of Alaska for such fisheries and in accordance with existing Federal and State laws and any applicable international conservation and management treaties.Provides that nothing in this Act shall: (1) alter or affect the provisions of the Department of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations Act for Fiscal Year 1999, as amended by the 1999 Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act, relating to regulation of commercial fisheries in the Park; or (2) enlarge or diminish Federal or State title, jurisdiction, or authority with respect to the waters of the State of Alaska, the waters within Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve, or the tidal or submerged lands.Requires the Secretary to: (1) develop and report biennially to specified congressional committees on a comprehensive multi-agency research and monitoring program to evaluate the health of fisheries resources in the Park's marine waters to determine the effect, if any, of commercial fishing on the productivity, diversity, and sustainability of fishery resources in such waters and park resources and value; and (2) study and report to specified congressional committees any legislative recommendations concerning sea gulls living within the Park, assessing whether their eggs can be collected on a limited basis without impairing the sea gull population's biological sustainability.Authorizes appropriations.
People & committees
Sen. Murkowski, Frank H. [R-AK] · R–AK
Legislative record
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Became Public Law No: 106-455.
Became Public Law No: 106-455.
Signed by President.
Signed by President.
Presented to President.
Presented to President.
Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H10505-10506)
Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote.(text: CR H10505-10506)
DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on S. 501.
Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H10505-10506)
Mr. Young (AK) moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill.
Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
Message on Senate action sent to the House.
Held at the desk.
Received in the House.
Passed Senate with an amendment by Unanimous Consent. (text as passed Senate: CR S15156))
Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate with an amendment by Unanimous Consent.(text as passed Senate: CR S15156))
Measure laid before Senate by unanimous consent. (consideration: CR S15155-15156)
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 238.
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Reported to Senate by Senator Murkowski with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. With written report No. 106-128. Minority views filed.
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Reported to Senate by Senator Murkowski with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. With written report No. 106-128. Minority views filed.
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably. (text of measure as reported in Senate: CR 11/19/1999 S15155-15156)
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Hearings held. Hearings printed: S.Hrg. 106-58.
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. (text of measure as introduced: CR S2109)
Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S2109)
Introduced in Senate
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