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US. GOVERNMENT
INFORMATION
118TH CONGRESS REPORT
2d Session HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 118-439
MIGRATORY BIRDS OF THE AMERICAS CONSERVATION
ENHANCEMENTS ACT OF 2023
APRIL 5, 2024.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of
the Union and ordered to be printed
Mr. WESTERMAN, from the Committee on Natural Resources,
submitted the following
REPORT
[To accompany H.R. 4389]
[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]
The Committee on Natural Resources, to whom was referred the
bill (H.R. 4389) to amend the Neotropical Migratory Bird Conserva-
tion Act to make improvements to that Act, and for other purposes,
having considered the same, reports favorably thereon with an
amendment and recommends that the bill as amended do pass.
The amendment is as follows:
Strike all after the enacting clause and insert the following:
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the Migratory Birds of the Americas Conservation En-
hancements Act of 2023.
SEC. 2. NEOTROPICAL MIGRATORY BIRD CONSERVATION ACT AMENDMENTS.
(a) FEDERAL SHARE.-Section 5(e)(1) of the Neotropical Migratory Bird Conserva-
tion Act (16 U.S.C. 6104(e)(1)) is amended by striking 25 percent and inserting
33.3 percent.
(b) COOPERATION.-Section 7 of the Neotropical Migratory Bird Conservation Act
(16 U.S.C. 6106) is amended by adding at the end the following:
(c) REPORT TO CONGRESS.-Not later than 180 days after the date of the enact-
ment of the Migratory Birds of the Americas Conservation Enhancements Act of
2023, the Secretary shall submit to the Committee on Environment and Public
Works of the Senate and the Committee on Natural Resources of the House of Rep-
resentatives a report describing the implementation of subsection (b) by the Sec-
retary, which shall include, if applicable, a description of the composition of the ad-
visory group convened under paragraph (1) of that subsection..
(c) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONs.-Section 10(a) of the Neotropical Migra-
tory Bird Conservation Act (16 U.S.C. 6109(a)) is amended by striking 2023 and
inserting 2028.
(d) TECHNICAL CORRECTIONS.-
(1) DEFINITIONs.-Section 4 of the Neotropical Migratory Bird Conservation
Act (16 U.S.C. 6103) is amended-
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