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118TH CONGRESS REPORT
2d Session HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 118-429
SOUTH PACIFIC TUNA TREATY ACT OF 2023
MARCH 21, 2024.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State
of the Union and ordered to be printed
Mr. WESTERMAN, from the Committee on Natural Resources,
submitted the following
REPORT
[To accompany H.R. 1792]
[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]
The Committee on Natural Resources, to whom was referred the
bill (H.R. 1792) to amend the South Pacific Tuna Act of 1988, and
for other purposes, 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. SHORT TITLE; TABLE OF CONTENTS.
(a) SHORT TITLE.-This Act may be cited as the South Pacific Tuna Treaty Act
of 2023.
(b) TABLE OF CONTENTS.-The table of contents of this Act is as follows:
Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents.
Sec. 2. Amendment of South Pacific Tuna Act of 1988.
Sec. 3. Definitions.
Sec. 4. Prohibited acts.
Sec. 5. Exceptions.
Sec. 6. Criminal offenses.
Sec. 7. Civil penalties.
Sec. 8. Licenses.
Sec. 9. Enforcement.
Sec. 10. Findings by Secretary.
Sec. 11. Reporting requirements; disclosure of information.
Sec. 12. Closed Area stowage requirements.
Sec. 13. Observers.
Sec. 14. Technical assistance.
Sec. 15. Arbitration.
Sec. 16. Disposition of fees, penalties, forfeitures, and other moneys.
Sec. 17. Additional agreements.
SEC. 2. AMENDMENT OF SOUTH PACIFIC TUNA ACT OF 1988.
Except as otherwise expressly provided, wherever in this Act an amendment or
repeal is expressed in terms of an amendment to, or repeal of, a section or other
provision, the reference shall be considered to be made to a section or other provi-
sion of the South Pacific Tuna Act of 1988 (16 U.S.C. 973 et seq.).
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