[House Report 110-668]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]





110th Congress                                            Rept. 110-668
                        HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
 2d Session                                                      Part 2

======================================================================



 
  MISSISQUOI AND TROUT RIVERS WILD AND SCENIC RIVER STUDY ACT OF 2008

                                _______
                                

 September 8, 2008.--Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on 
            the State of the Union and ordered to be printed

                                _______
                                

  Mr. Rahall, from the Committee on Natural Resources, submitted the 
                               following

                          SUPPLEMENTAL REPORT

                        [To accompany H.R. 3667]

  The Committee on Natural Resources, to whom was referred the 
bill (H.R. 3667) to amend the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act to 
designate a segment of the Missisquoi and Trout Rivers in the 
State of Vermont for study for potential addition to the 
National Wild and Scenic Rivers System, having considered the 
same, report favorably thereon with an amendment and recommend 
that the bill as amended do pass.
  The amendment is as follows:
  Strike all after the enacting clause and insert the 
following:

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

  This Act may be cited as the ``Missisquoi and Trout Rivers Wild and 
Scenic River Study Act of 2008''.

SEC. 2. DESIGNATION FOR STUDY.

  Section 5(a) of the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act (16 U.S.C. 1276(a)) is 
amended by adding at the end the following:
          ``(__) Missisquoi and trout rivers, vermont.--The 
        approximately 25-mile segment of the upper Missisquoi from its 
        headwaters in Lowell to the Canadian border in North Troy; the 
        approximately 25-mile segment from the Canadian border in East 
        Richford to Enosburg Falls; and approximately 20 miles of the 
        Trout River from its headwaters to its confluence with the 
        Missisquoi River.''.

SEC. 3. STUDY AND REPORT.

  Section 5(b) of the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act (16 U.S.C. 1276(b)) is 
amended by adding at the end the following:
  ``(19) Missisquoi and Trout Rivers, Vermont.--Not later than 3 years 
after funds are made available to carry out this paragraph, the 
Secretary of the Interior shall--
          ``(A) analyze the potential impact of the designation on 
        private lands within the Missisquoi and Trout Rivers, Vermont, 
        described in subsection (a)(__) or adjacent to that area;
          ``(B) complete the study of the Missisquoi and Trout Rivers, 
        Vermont, described in subsection (a)(__); and
          ``(C) submit a report describing the results of that study to 
        the appropriate committees of Congress.''.

                          Supplemental Report

    The Committee on Natural Resources is filing this 
supplemental report on H.R. 3667, a bill to amend the Wild and 
Scenic Rivers Act to designate a segment of the Missisquoi and 
Trout Rivers in the State of Vermont for study for potential 
addition to the National Wild and Scenic Rivers System, to 
ensure that amendments made to the legislation during the Full 
Committee's meeting of April 30, 2008 are correctly reflected. 
An error in the original report on H.R. 3667 omitted the text 
of an amendment that was adopted by the Committee on that date.

         Changes in Existing Law Made by the Bill, as Reported

  In compliance with clause 3(e) of rule XIII of the Rules of 
the House of Representatives, changes in existing law made by 
the bill, as reported, are shown as follows (new matter is 
printed in italic and existing law in which no change is 
proposed is shown in roman):

                       WILD AND SCENIC RIVERS ACT




           *       *       *       *       *       *       *
  Sec. 5. (a) The following rivers are hereby designated for 
potential addition to the national wild and scenic rivers 
system:
          (1) * * *

           *       *       *       *       *       *       *

          (__) Missisquoi and trout rivers, vermont.--The 
        approximately 25-mile segment of the upper Missisquoi 
        from its headwaters in Lowell to the Canadian border in 
        North Troy; the approximately 25-mile segment from the 
        Canadian border in East Richford to Enosburg Falls; and 
        approximately 20 miles of the Trout River from its 
        headwaters to its confluence with the Missisquoi River.
  (b)(1) * * *

           *       *       *       *       *       *       *

  (19) Missisquoi and Trout Rivers, Vermont.--Not later than 3 
years after funds are made available to carry out this 
paragraph, the Secretary of the Interior shall--
          (A) analyze the potential impact of the designation 
        on private lands within the Missisquoi and Trout 
        Rivers, Vermont, described in subsection (a)(__) or 
        adjacent to that area;
          (B) complete the study of the Missisquoi and Trout 
        Rivers, Vermont, described in subsection (a)(__); and
          (C) submit a report describing the results of that 
        study to the appropriate committees of Congress.

           *       *       *       *       *       *       *