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H. Rept. 115-278,Part 1 1 (2017-08-25)

handle is hein.congrecreports/crptxaiou0001 and id is 1 raw text is: AUTHENTICATED r U.S. GOVERNMENT INFORMATION 4 115TH CONGRESS REPT.115-278 1st Session J HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Part 1 PUBLIC WATER SUPPLY INVASIVE SPECIES COMPLIANCE ACT OF 2017 AUGUST 25, 2017.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed Mr. BISHOP of Utah, from the Committee on Natural Resources, submitted the following REPORT together with DISSENTING VIEWS [To accompany H.R. 1807] [Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office] The Committee on Natural Resources, to whom was referred the bill (H.R. 1807) to exempt from the Lacey Act and the Lacey Act Amendments of 1981 certain water transfers between any of the States of Texas, Arkansas, and Louisiana, having considered the same, report favorably thereon without amendment and rec- ommend that the bill do pass. PURPOSE OF THE BILL The purpose of H.R. 1807 is to exempt from the Lacey Act and the Lacey Act Amendments of 1981 certain water transfers be- tween any of the States of Texas, Arkansas, and Louisiana. BACKGROUND AND NEED FOR LEGISLATION H.R. 1807 exempts water transfers between the States of Texas, Arkansas and Louisiana from certain federal restrictions associated with the movement of injurious wildlife between public bodies of water within the three states if certain criteria are met. The Lacey Act, originally enacted in 1900 (16 U.S.C. 3371 et seq.), makes it unlawful to import, export, sell, acquire, or purchase fish, wildlife or plants that are taken, possessed, transported, or sold in violation of federal, state, tribal or foreign law or treaty. 69-006