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INFORMATION .
117TH CONGRESS REPORT
2d Session HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 117-683
SEA TURTLE RESCUE ASSISTANCE ACT OF 2022
DECEMBER 30, 2022.-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. 7918]
The Committee on Natural Resources, to whom was referred the
bill (H.R. 7918) to require the Secretary of Commerce to establish
the Sea Turtle Rescue Assistance Grant Program, having consid-
ered 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. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the Sea Turtle Rescue Assistance Act of 2022.
SEC. 2. SEA TURTLE RESCUE ASSISTANCE GRANT PROGRAM.
(a) ESTABLISHMENT.-The Secretary shall establish a grant program to be known
as the Sea Turtle Rescue Assistance Grant Program, to encourage and facilitate
coordinated rapid response and rescue by awarding grants for the purposes de-
scribed in subsection (c).
(b) DESIGNATION OF STRANDING REGIONS.-The Secretary shall designate geo-
graphic regions of the United States as stranding regions for the purposes of car-
rying out this section.
(c) PURPOSES.-The purposes of the Program are to provide for-
(1) the recovery, short- or long-term care, transportation, and treatment of
stranded marine turtles;
(2) the release of rescued and recovered marine turtles;
(3) the collection of data and samples from stranded marine turtles for sci-
entific research or assessments regarding marine turtle health, including tag-
ging information; and
(4) facility operation costs that are directly related to activities described in
paragraphs (1), (2), and (3).
(d) EQUITABLE DISTRIBUTION OF FUNDS.-The Secretary shall ensure, to the ex-
tent practicable, that funds awarded under this section are distributed equitably
among stranding regions, taking into account-
(1) the number of stranding events that occurred in each stranding region in
the preceding 5 years; and
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