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U.S. GOVERNMENT
INFORMATION .
116TH CONGRESS REPORT
2d Session HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 116-629
TO PROVIDE FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE
WESTERN RIVERSIDE COUNTY WILDLIFE REFUGE
DECEMBER 8, 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
R E P O R T
[To accompany H.R. 2956]
[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]
The Committee on Natural Resources, to whom was referred the
bill (H.R. 2956) to provide for the establishment of the Western
Riverside County Wildlife Refuge, having considered the same, re-
ports 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. ESTABLISHMENT.
(a) IN GENERAL.-The Secretary of the Interior (in this Act referred to as the Sec-
retary), acting through the United States Fish and Wildlife Service, shall establish
as a national wildlife refuge the lands, waters, and interests therein acquired under
section 4. The national wildlife refuge shall be known as the Western Riverside
County National Wildlife Refuge (in this Act referred to as the Wildlife Refuge).
(b) PURPOSE.-The purpose of the Wildlife Refuge shall be-
(1) to conserve, manage, and restore wildlife habitats for the benefit of
present and future generations of Americans;
(2) to conserve species listed as threatened or endangered under the Endan-
gered Species Act of 1973 (16 U.S.C. 1531 et seq.) or the California Endangered
Species Act (California Fish and Game Code 2050-2068), or which is a covered
species under the Western Riverside County Multiple Species Habitat Conserva-
tion Plan;
(3) to support the recovery and protection of threatened and endangered spe-
cies under the Endangered Species Act of 1973 (16 U.S.C. 1531 et seq.); and
(4) to provide for wildlife habitat connectivity and migratory corridors within
the Western Riverside County Multiple Species Habitat Conservation Plan
Area.
(c) NOTIFICATION OF ESTABLISHMENT.-The Secretary shall publish notice of the
establishment of the Wildlife Refuge in the Federal Register.
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