H.R.374 — To remove the sunset provision of section 203 of Public Law 105–384, and for other purposes.

August 18, 2017

Summary

This bill makes permanent the authority of Washington, Oregon, and California to adopt and enforce state laws governing fishing and processing in the exclusive economic zone adjacent to their state in any Dungeness crab fishery for which there is no fishery management plan in effect under the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act.

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One Hundred Fifteenth Congress of the United States of America

AT THE FIRST SESSION

Begun and held at the City of Washington on Tuesday, the third day of January, two thousand and seventeen

An Act

To remove the sunset provision of section 203 of Public Law 105–384, and for other purposes.

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

SECTION 1. DUNGENESS CRAB FISHERY MANAGEMENT.

Section 203 of the Act entitled “An Act to approve a governing international fishery agreement between the United States and the Republic of Poland, and for other purposes”, approved November 13, 1998 (Public Law 105–384; 16 U.S.C. 1856 note), is amended —

(1) by striking subsection (i); and

(2) by redesignating subsection (j) as subsection (i).

Attest:

Speaker of the House of Representatives.

Attest:

Vice President of the United States and
President of the Senate.

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