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Amending the Nutria Eradication and Control Act of 2003 to Include California in the Program

Floor Speech

Date: Sept. 29, 2020
Location: Washington, DC

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Mr. KENNEDY. Mr. President, though my bill, S. 4403, a bill to amend the Nutria Eradication and Control Act of 2003 to include California in the program, amends P.L. 108-16, which calls specifically for the Secretary to ``require that the program consist of management, research, and public education activities carried out in accordance with the document published by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service entitled `Eradication Strategies for Nutria in the Chesapeake and Delaware Bay Watersheds' dated March 2002'' and to ``give consideration to the 2002 report from the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries titled 'Nutria in Louisiana,' '' the Secretary and State participants should also consider data that has been established since 2002, in developing strategies for the eradication of Nutria.

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