To direct the Secretary of the Interior to issue regulations under the Migratory Bird Treaty Act that authorize States to establish hunting seasons for double-crested cormorants.

Requires: (1) the Secretary of the Interior to issue regulations under the Migratory Bird Treaty Act that authorize States to establish hunting seasons for double-crested cormorants; and (2) such regulations to limit the number of cormorants that a person may take per day (10) or possess from a hunting season (20).

[Congressional Bills 106th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3118 Introduced in House (IH)]







106th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3118

To direct the Secretary of the Interior to issue regulations under the 
 Migratory Bird Treaty Act that authorize States to establish hunting 
                 seasons for double-crested cormorants.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            October 20, 1999

 Mr. McHugh (for himself and Mr. Peterson of Minnesota) introduced the 
    following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
To direct the Secretary of the Interior to issue regulations under the 
 Migratory Bird Treaty Act that authorize States to establish hunting 
                 seasons for double-crested cormorants.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. REGULATIONS FOR HUNTING SEASONS FOR DOUBLE-CRESTED 
              CORMORANTS.

    (a) In General.--The Secretary of the Interior shall, by not later 
than 6 months after the date of the enactment of this Act, issue 
regulations under section 3 of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act (16 U.S.C. 
704) that authorize States to establish hunting seasons for double-
crested cormorants.
    (b) Content.--Regulations issued under this section shall--
            (1) permit the taking by an individual of 10 double-crested 
        cormorants during each day of a hunting season established 
        under the regulations;
            (2) permit an individual to have in his or her possession 
        20 double-crested cormorants legally taken in a hunting season 
        established under the regulations;
            (3) require that the dates of any hunting season 
        established under the regulations in a State correspond 
        generally with other waterfowl hunting seasons in that State; 
        and
            (4) subject to the other requirements of this subsection, 
        authorize a hunting season established under the regulations to 
        begin at any time after the date of the issuance of the 
        regulations.
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