S 899 ISRSCommentsClose CommentsPermalink

Calendar No. 231CommentsClose CommentsPermalink

112th CONGRESSCommentsClose CommentsPermalink

1st SessionCommentsClose CommentsPermalink

S. 899CommentsClose CommentsPermalink

[Report No. 112-94]CommentsClose CommentsPermalink

To provide for the eradication and control of nutria.CommentsClose CommentsPermalink

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATESCommentsClose CommentsPermalink

May 5, 2011CommentsClose CommentsPermalink

Mr. CARDIN (for himself, Ms. LANDRIEU, Ms. MIKULSKI, Mr. MERKLEY, and Mrs. HAGAN) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public WorksCommentsClose CommentsPermalink

November 15, 2011CommentsClose CommentsPermalink

Reported by Mrs. BOXER, with an amendmentCommentsClose CommentsPermalink

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A BILLCommentsClose CommentsPermalink

To provide for the eradication and control of nutria.CommentsClose CommentsPermalink

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, CommentsClose CommentsPermalink

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

This Act may be cited as the ‘Nutria Eradication and Control Act of 2011’.CommentsClose CommentsPermalink

SEC. 2. FINDINGS; PURPOSE.

Section 2 of the Nutria Eradication and Control Act of 2003 (Public Law 108-16; 117 Stat. 621) is amended--CommentsClose CommentsPermalink





(1) in subsection (a)--CommentsClose CommentsPermalink





(A) in paragraph (1), by striking ‘and in Louisiana’ and inserting ‘, the State of Louisiana, and other coastal States’;CommentsClose CommentsPermalink





(B) in paragraph (2), by striking ‘in Maryland and Louisiana on Federal, State, and private land’ and inserting ‘on Federal, State, and private land in the States of Maryland and Louisiana and in other coastal States’; andCommentsClose CommentsPermalink





(C) by striking paragraphs (3) and (4) and inserting the following:CommentsClose CommentsPermalink





‘(3) This Act authorizes the Maryland Nutria Project, which has successfully eradicated nutria from more than 130,000 acres of Chesapeake Bay wetlands in the State of Maryland and facilitated the creation of voluntary, public-private partnerships and more than 406 cooperative landowner agreements.CommentsClose CommentsPermalink





‘(4) This Act and the Coastal Wetlands Planning, Protection, and Restoration Act (16 U.S.C. 3951 et seq.) authorize the Coastwide Nutria Control Program, which has reduced nutria-impacted wetland acres in the State of Louisiana from 80,000 acres to 23,141 acres.CommentsClose CommentsPermalink





‘(5) The proven techniques developed under this Act that are eradicating nutria in the State of Maryland and reducing the acres of nutria-impacted wetlands in the State of Louisiana should be applied to nutria eradication or control programs in other nutria-infested coastal States’; andCommentsClose CommentsPermalink





(2) by striking subsection (b) and inserting the following:CommentsClose CommentsPermalink





‘(b) Purpose- The purpose of this Act is to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to provide financial assistance to the States of Delaware, Louisiana, Maryland, North Carolina, Oregon, Virginia, and Washington to carry out activities--CommentsClose CommentsPermalink





‘(1) to eradicate or control nutria; andCommentsClose CommentsPermalink





‘(2) to restore nutria damaged wetlands.’.CommentsClose CommentsPermalink

SEC. 3. DEFINITIONS.

The Nutria Eradication and Control Act of 2003 (Public Law 108-16; 117 Stat. 621) is amended--CommentsClose CommentsPermalink





(1) by redesignating sections 3 and 4 as sections 4 and 5, respectively; andCommentsClose CommentsPermalink





(2) by inserting after section 2 the following:CommentsClose CommentsPermalink

‘SEC. 3. DEFINITIONS.

‘In this Act:CommentsClose CommentsPermalink





‘(1) COASTAL STATE- The term ‘coastal State’ means each of the States of Delaware, Oregon, North Carolina, Virginia, and Washington.CommentsClose CommentsPermalink





‘(2) PROGRAM- The term ‘program’ means the nutria eradication program established by section 4(a).CommentsClose CommentsPermalink





‘(3) PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP- The term ‘public-private partnership’ means a voluntary, cooperative project undertaken by governmental entities or public officials and affected communities, local citizens, nongovernmental organizations, or other entities or persons in the private sector.CommentsClose CommentsPermalink





‘(4) SECRETARY- The term ‘Secretary’ means the Secretary of the Interior.’.CommentsClose CommentsPermalink

SEC. 4. NUTRIA ERADICATION PROGRAM.

Section 4 of the Nutria Eradication and Control Act of 2003 (Public Law 108-16; 117 Stat. 621) (as redesignated by section 3) is amended--CommentsClose CommentsPermalink





(1) by striking subsection (a) and inserting the following:CommentsClose CommentsPermalink





‘(a) In General- The Secretary may, subject to the availability of appropriations, provide financial assistance to the States of Maryland and Louisiana and the coastal States to implement measures--CommentsClose CommentsPermalink





‘(1) to eradicate or control nutria; andCommentsClose CommentsPermalink





‘(2) to restore wetlands damaged by nutria.’;CommentsClose CommentsPermalink





(2) in subsection (b)--CommentsClose CommentsPermalink





(A) in paragraph (1), by inserting ‘the State of’ before ‘Maryland’;CommentsClose CommentsPermalink





(B) in paragraph (2), by striking ‘other States’ and inserting ‘the coastal States’; andCommentsClose CommentsPermalink





(C) in paragraph (3), by striking ‘marshland’ and inserting ‘wetlands’;CommentsClose CommentsPermalink





(3) in subsection (c)--CommentsClose CommentsPermalink





(A) by striking ‘(c) Activities’ and inserting ‘(c) Activities in the State of Maryland’; andCommentsClose CommentsPermalink





(B) by inserting ‘, and updated in March 2009’ before the period at the end;CommentsClose CommentsPermalink





(4) in subsection (e), by striking ‘financial assistance provided by the Secretary under this section’ and inserting ‘the amounts made available under subsection (f) to carry out the program’; andCommentsClose CommentsPermalink





(5) by striking subsection (f) and inserting the following:CommentsClose CommentsPermalink





‘(f) Authorization of Appropriations- Subject to subsection (e), for each of fiscal years 2012 through 2016, there areis authorized to be appropriated to the Secretary to carry out the program such sums as are necessary$6,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2012 through 2016, of which-- CommentsClose CommentsPermalink





‘(1) $2,000,000 shall be used to provide financial assistance to the State of Maryland; CommentsClose CommentsPermalink





‘(2) $2,000,000 shall be used to provide financial assistance to the State of Louisiana; and CommentsClose CommentsPermalink





‘(3) $2,000,000 shall be used to provide financial assistance, on a competitive basis, to other coastal States.’. CommentsClose CommentsPermalink

SEC. 5. REPORT.

Section 5 of the Nutria Eradication and Control Act of 2003 (Public Law 108-16; 117 Stat. 621) (as redesignated by section 3) is amended--CommentsClose CommentsPermalink





(1) in paragraph (1), by striking ‘2002 document entitled ‘Eradication Strategies for Nutria in the Chesapeake and Delaware Bay Watersheds’; and’ and inserting ‘March 2009 update of the document entitled ‘Eradication Strategies for Nutria in the Chesapeake and Delaware Bay Watersheds’ and originally dated March 2002;’;CommentsClose CommentsPermalink





(2) in paragraph (2)--CommentsClose CommentsPermalink





(A) by striking ‘develop’ and inserting ‘continue’; andCommentsClose CommentsPermalink





(B) by striking the period at the end and inserting ‘; and’; andCommentsClose CommentsPermalink





(3) by adding after paragraph (2) the following:CommentsClose CommentsPermalink





‘(3) develop, in cooperation with the State of Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control, the State of Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries, the State of Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife, the State of North Carolina Department of Environment and Natural Resources, and the State of Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife, long-term nutria control or eradication programs, as appropriate, with the objective of--CommentsClose CommentsPermalink





‘(A) significantly reducing and restoring the damage nutria cause to coastal wetlands in the coastal States; andCommentsClose CommentsPermalink





‘(B) promoting voluntary, public-private partnerships to eradicate or control nutria and restoring nutria-damaged wetlands in the coastal States.’.CommentsClose CommentsPermalink

Calendar No. 231CommentsClose CommentsPermalink

112th CONGRESSCommentsClose CommentsPermalink

1st SessionCommentsClose CommentsPermalink

S. 899CommentsClose CommentsPermalink

[Report No. 112-94]CommentsClose CommentsPermalink

A BILLCommentsClose CommentsPermalink

To provide for the eradication and control of nutria.CommentsClose CommentsPermalink

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November 15, 2011CommentsClose CommentsPermalink

Reported with an amendmentCommentsClose CommentsPermalink