United States Fish and Wildlife Service Resource Protection Act
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What it doesSummary introduced in house (Feb 12, 2016)
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.
What just happenedFeb 17, 2016
Referred to the Subcommittee on Water, Power and Oceans.
Who’s behind it
- Introduced in HouseFeb 12, 2016
- Feb 17, 2016Committee
Referred to the Subcommittee on Water, Power and Oceans.
Water, Wildlife, and Fisheries Subcommittee - Feb 17, 2016Committee
Referred to the Subcommittee on Federal Lands.
Federal Lands Subcommittee - Feb 12, 2016IntroReferralH11100
Referred 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.
Appropriations Committee - Feb 12, 2016IntroReferralH11100-A
Referred 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.
- Feb 12, 2016IntroReferralH11100
Referred 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.
Natural Resources Committee - Feb 12, 2016IntroReferralIntro-H
Introduced in House
- Feb 12, 2016IntroReferral1000
Introduced in House