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U.S. OVERNMENT
INFORMATION
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116TH CONGRESS REPORT
2d Session HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 116-405
TO AMEND THE NUTRIA ERADICATION AND CONTROL
ACT OF 2003 TO INCLUDE CALIFORNIA IN THE PRO-
GRAM, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES
FEBRUARY 25, 2020.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State
of the Union and ordered to be printed
Mr. GRIJALVA, from the Committee on Natural Resources,
submitted the following
REPORT
[To accompany H.R. 3399]
[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]
The Committee on Natural Resources, to whom was referred the
bill (H.R. 3399) to amend the Nutria Eradication and Control Act
of 2003 to include California in the program, and for other pur-
poses, 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. NUTRIA ERADICATION.
The Nutria Eradication and Control Act of 2003 (Public Law 108-16) is amend-
ed-
(1) in section 2-
(A) in subsection (a)-
(i) in paragraph (1), by striking Wetlands and tidal marshes of the
Chesapeake Bay and in Louisiana and inserting Wetlands, tidal
marshes, and agricultural lands;
(ii) in paragraph (2), by striking in Maryland and Louisiana; and
(iii) by amending paragraph (3) to read as follows:
(3) Traditional harvest methods to control or eradicate nutria have failed.
Consequently, marsh loss, loss of public and private wetlands, and loss of agri-
cultural lands are accelerating.; and
(B) in subsection (b), by striking the State of Maryland and the State
of Louisiana and inserting any State that has demonstrated the need;
and
(2) in section 3-
(A) by amending subsection (a) to read as follows:
(a) GRANT AUTHORITY.-The Secretary of the Interior (referred to in this Act as
the 'Secretary'), may provide financial assistance to a State, in an amount that is
in proportion to the total impacted area of such State affected by nutria, that has
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