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109TH CONGRESS REPORT
2d Session HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 109-562
PARTNERS FOR FISH AND WILDLIFE ACT
JULY 13, 2006.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of
the Union and ordered to be printed
Mr. POMBO, from the Committee on Resources,
submitted the following
REPORT
together with
ADDITIONAL VIEWS
[To accompany S. 260]
[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]
The Committee on Resources, to whom was referred the bill (S.
260) to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to provide technical
and financial assistance to private landowners to restore, enhance,
and manage private land to improve fish and wildlife habitats
through the Partners for Fish and Wildlife Program, having consid-
ered the same, report favorably thereon without amendment and
recommend that the bill do pass.
PURPOSE OF THE BILL
The purpose of S. 260 is to authorize the Secretary of the Interior
to provide technical and financial assistance to provide landowners
to restore, enhance, and manage private land to improve fish and
wildlife habitats through the Partners for Fish and Wildlife Pro-
gram.
BACKGROUND AND NEED FOR LEGISLATION
In 1987, using the statutory authority of the Fish and Wildlife
Coordination Act (16 U.S.C. 661 et seq.), the Department of the In-
terior decided to administratively create a voluntary incentive-
based partnership program to assist public and private landowners
to conserve, manage and restore wetlands and other fish and wild-
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