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S 1940 115th Congress Senate Public Lands and Natural Resources Department of the Interior Executive agency funding and structure Public-private cooperation Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations Wilderness and natural areas, wildlife refuges, wild rivers, habitats Wildlife conservation and habitat protection

Keep America's Refuges Operational Act

Introduced: October 5, 2017 See on congress.gov
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Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
Oct 5, 2017
Introduced in Senate
 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Keep America's Refuges Operational Act

This bill amends the Fish and Wildlife Act of 1956 to reauthorize through FY2022: (1) the volunteer services, community partnerships, and national wildlife refuge education programs of the National Wildlife Refuge System; and (2) provisions authorizing the Department of the Interior to accept and use gifts, devises, or bequests of real and personal property for the benefit of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in the performance of its activities and services.

The bill eliminates the prohibition on the use for the operation or administration of any nonfederal entity of any federal funds that are used for a project or program for a national wildlife refuge or a complex of geographically related refuges under a cooperative agreement between Interior and a partner organization, academic institution, state or local government agency, or other person under the community partnerships program.

What's happening now October 5, 2017

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.

 Committees of jurisdiction 1
 Cosponsors 1
All 1 Republican 1