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U.S. GOVERNMENT
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Calendar No. 434
105TH CONGRESS S REPORT
2d Session SENATE 105-224
NATIONAL FISH AND WILDLIFE ESTABLISHMENT ACT
AMENDMENTS OF 1998
JUNE 25, 1998.-Ordered to be printed
Mr. CHAFEE, from the Committee on Environment and Public
Works, submitted the following
REPORT
[To accompany S. 2095]
The Committee on Environment and Public Works, to which was
referred a bill (S. 2095) to reauthorize and amend the National
Fish and Wildlife Foundation Establishment Act, having considered
the same, reports favorably thereon with an amendment and rec-
ommends that the bill do pass.
BACKGROUND
In 1984, Congress passed and President Ronald Reagan signed
into law a bill creating the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation.
The Foundation is a Federally chartered, charitable, nonprofit cor-
poration established to accept and administer gifts from private
citizens for fish, wildlife and plant conservation. The Foundation
develops private sector support for selected programs and activities
of the United States Fish and Wildlife Service and the National
Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration that traditionally have
not been adequately funded through annual appropriations.
Since its creation in 1984, the Foundation has been very success-
ful in establishing public and private partnerships to conserve fish,
wildlife and plants using Federal funds matched by private dona-
tions. On average, the Foundation has brought in more than two
private sector dollars for every Federal dollar appropriated. With
these funds, the Foundation has financed more than 2,550 con-
servation projects throughout the United States and in 35 other
countries that, using partnerships and challenge grants, have been
worth more than $310 million. The Foundation has conducted
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