H.R. 4558 · 114th Congress
United States Fish and Wildlife Service Resource Protection Act
- Stage
- In committee
- Sponsor
- Mike Thompson
- Introduced
- 2016-02-12
- Latest action
- 2016-02-17 · Referred to the Subcommittee on Federal Lands.
Summary
United States Fish and Wildlife Service Resource Protection Act
This bill authorizes the U.S. 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.
Amounts recovered as a result of such destruction, loss, or injury must 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.