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H.R.581
One Hundred Seventh Congress
of the
United States of America
AT THE FIRST SESSION
Begun and held at the City of Washington on Wednesday,
the third day of January, two thousand and one
An Act
To authorize the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of
Agriculture to use funds appropriated for wildland fire management in
the Department of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations Act,
2001, to reimburse the United States Fish and Wildlife Service and the
National Marine Fisheries Service to facilitate the interagency
cooperation required under the Endangered Species Act of 1973 in
connection with wildland fire management.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. USE OF WILDLAND FIRE MANAGEMENT FUNDS TO FACILITATE
COMPLIANCE WITH ENDANGERED SPECIES ACT CONSULTATION
REQUIREMENTS.
The Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture may
use funds appropriated for wildland fire management in the Department
of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2001 (Public
Law 106-291; 114 Stat. 922), to reimburse the United States Fish and
Wildlife Service and the National Marine Fisheries Service for the
costs of carrying out their responsibilities under the Endangered
Species Act of 1973 (16 U.S.C. 1531 et seq.) to consult and conference,
as required by section 7 of such Act (16 U.S.C. 1536), in connection
with wildland fire management activities.
SEC. 2. SENSE OF CONGRESS; REQUIREMENT REGARDING NOTICE.
(a) Purchase of American-Made Equipment and Products.--In the case
of any equipment or products that may be authorized to be purchased
using funds provided under section 1, it is the sense of the Congress
that entities receiving the funds should, in expending the funds,
purchase only American-made equipment and products.
(b) Notice to Recipients of Funds.--In expending funds provided
under section 1, the head of each Federal agency receiving such funds
shall provide to each recipient of the funds a notice describing the
statement made in subsection (a) by the Congress.
(c) Notice of Report.--Any entity which receives funds under
section 1 shall report any expenditures on foreign-made items to the
Congress within 180 days of the expenditure.
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
Vice President of the United States and
President of the Senate.
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