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112TH CONGRESS REPORT
1st Session HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 112-279
REDESIGNATION OF THE NOXUBEE NATIONAL
WILDLIFE REFUGE
NOVEMBER 10, 2011.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the
State of the Union and ordered to be printed
Mr. HASTINGS of Washington, from the Committee on Natural
Resources, submitted the following
REPORT
[To accompany H.R. 588]
[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]
The Committee on Natural Resources, to whom was referred the
bill (H.R. 588) to redesignate the Noxubee National Wildlife Refuge
as the Sam D. Hamilton Noxubee National Wildlife Refuge, having
considered the same, report favorably thereon without amendment
and recommend that the bill do pass.
PURPOSE OF THE BILL
The purpose of H.R. 588 is to redesignate the Noxubee National
Wildlife Refuge as the Sam D. Hamilton Noxubee National Wildlife
Refuge.
BACKGROUND AND NEED FOR LEGISLATION
The Noxubee National Wildlife Refuge was established in 1940
through lands obtained from the Resettlement Administration,
which was a federal agency created in 1935 during the Franklin
Roosevelt Administration. Today, it is 48,000 acres in size and is
located within the three Mississippi counties of Noxubee, Oktib-
beha and Winston. The Refuge is primarily comprised of 42,500
acres of bottomland and upland woodlands. It provides essential
habitat to the endangered red-cockaded woodpecker, the American
alligator, bobcat, quail, white-tailed deer and wild turkeys. Fur-
ther, upwards of 15,000 waterfowl, primarily American widgeons,
gadwalls, mallards and wood ducks, overwinter on the Refuge. Ac-
cording to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, over 125,000 people
visit the Refuge annually to participate in fishing, hunting, wildlife
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