S. 2560 · 113th Congress
United States Fish and Wildlife Service Resource Protection Act
- Stage
- In committee
- Sponsor
- Benjamin Cardin
- Introduced
- 2014-06-26
- Latest action
- 2014-07-16 · Committee on Environment and Public Works Senate Subcommittee on Water and Wildlife. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 113-772.
Summary
United States Fish and Wildlife Service Resource Protection Act - Authorizes the Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) to seek compensation from individuals or entities for costs or damages for destroying, causing the loss of, or injuring any living, nonliving, historical, cultural, or archaeological resource on land managed by the USFWS, or for causing the USFWS to carry out actions to prevent, minimize, or abate such destruction, loss, or injury.
Requires amounts recovered as a result of such destruction, loss, or injury to be made available to USFWS to: (1) reimburse response costs and damage assessments; (2) restore, replace, or acquire the equivalent of a resource that was destroyed, lost, or injured; or (3) monitor and study those resources.