[115th Congress Public Law 168]
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Public Law 115-168
115th Congress

                                 An Act


 
To amend the Fish and Wildlife Act of 1956 to reauthorize the volunteer 
 services, community partnership, and refuge education programs of the 
 National Wildlife Refuge System, and for other purposes. <<NOTE: Apr. 
                       23, 2018 -  [H.R. 3979]>> 

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, <<NOTE: Keep America's 
Refuges Operational Act. 16 USC 742a note.>> 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Keep America's Refuges Operational 
Act''.
SEC. 2. REAUTHORIZATION OF NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE SYSTEM 
                    VOLUNTEER SERVICES, COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP, AND 
                    REFUGE EDUCATION PROGRAMS.

    Section 7 of the Fish and Wildlife Act of 1956 (16 U.S.C. 742f) is 
amended in subsection (g), by striking ``2011 through 2014'' and 
inserting ``2018 through 2022''.

    Approved April 23, 2018.

LEGISLATIVE HISTORY--H.R. 3979:
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HOUSE REPORTS: No. 115-438 (Comm. on Natural Resources).
CONGRESSIONAL RECORD:
                                                        Vol. 163 (2017):
                                    Dec. 18, considered and passed 
                                        House.
                                                        Vol. 164 (2018):
                                    Apr. 9, considered and passed 
                                        Senate.

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