US HB4558 | 2015-2016 | 114th Congress

Status

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 16-4)
Status: Introduced on February 12 2016 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2016-02-17 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Water, Power and Oceans.
Pending: House Subcommittee on Water, Power and Oceans Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Summary

United States Fish and Wildlife Service Resource Protection Act This bill authorizes the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) to seek compensation from individuals or entities for costs or damages for destroying, causing the loss of, or injuring any living, nonliving, historical, cultural, or archaeological resource on land managed by the USFWS, or for causing the USFWS to carry out actions to prevent, minimize, or abate such destruction, loss, or injury. Amounts recovered as a result of such destruction, loss, or injury must be made available to USFWS to: (1) reimburse response costs and damage assessments; (2) restore, replace, or acquire the equivalent of a resource that was destroyed, lost, or injured; or (3) monitor and study those resources.

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Title

United States Fish and Wildlife Service Resource Protection Act

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History

DateChamberAction
2016-02-17HouseReferred to the Subcommittee on Water, Power and Oceans.
2016-02-17HouseReferred to the Subcommittee on Federal Lands.
2016-02-12HouseReferred to House Appropriations
2016-02-12HouseReferred to House Natural Resources
2016-02-12HouseReferred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committee on Appropriations, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
2016-02-12HouseIntroduced in House

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