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U.S. GOVERNMENT
INFORMATION
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115TH CONGRESS REPORT
1st Session HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 115-438
KEEP AMERICA'S REFUGES OPERATIONAL ACT
DECEMBER 5, 2017.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State
of the Union and ordered to be printed
Mr. BISHOP of Utah, from the Committee on Natural Resources,
submitted the following
REPORT
[To accompany H.R. 3979]
[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]
The Committee on Natural Resources, to whom was referred the
bill (H.R. 3979) to amend the Fish and Wildlife Act of 1956 to reau-
thorize the volunteer services, community partnership, and refuge
education programs of the National Wildlife Refuge System, and
for other purposes, having considered the same, report favorably
thereon with an amendment and recommend 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 Keep America's Refuges Operational Act.
SEC. 2. REAUTHORIZATION OF NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE SYSTEM VOLUNTEER SERVICES,
COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP, AND REFUGE EDUCATION PROGRAMS.
Section 7 of the Fish and Wildlife Act of 1956 (16 U.S.C. 742f) is amended in sub-
section (g), by striking 2011 through 2014 and inserting 2018 through 2022.
PURPOSE OF THE BILL
The purpose of H.R. 3979 is to amend the Fish and Wildlife Act
of 1956 to reauthorize the volunteer services, community partner-
ship, and refuge education programs of the National Wildlife Ref-
uge System.
BACKGROUND AND NEED FOR LEGISLATION
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) manages 566 National
Wildlife Refuges as well as associated fish hatcheries, wetland
management districts, regional offices, and ecological services of-
fices. Four hundred and sixty-two of these refuges are open to the
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