June 7, 2001

Received; read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation

To extend indefinitely the authority of the States of Washington, Oregon, and California to manage a Dungeness crab fishery until the effective date of a fishery management plan for the fishery under the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act.

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

SECTION 1. EXTENSION OF AUTHORITY OF STATES OF WASHINGTON, OREGON, AND CALIFORNIA TO MANAGE DUNGENESS CRAB FISHERY.

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 by striking subsection (i).

Passed the House of Representatives June 6, 2001.

Attest:

JEFF TRANDAHL,

Clerk.

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