Sec. 4. Unusual mortality event activity funding
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(b)of section 405 of the Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972 ( 16 U.S.C. 1421d ) is amended to read as follows: Amounts in the Fund— shall be available only for use by the Secretary, in consultation with the Secretary of the Interior and dispersed among claimants based on budgets approved by the Secretary prior to expenditure— to make advance, partial, or progress payments under contracts or other funding mechanisms for property, supplies, salaries, services, and travel costs incurred in acting in accordance with the contingency plan issued under section 404(b) or under the direction of an Onsite Coordinator for an unusual mortality event; for reimbursing any stranding network participant for costs incurred in the preparation, analysis, and transportation of marine mammal tissues collected with respect to an unusual mortality event, including such transportation, for the Tissue Bank; and for care and maintenance of marine mammal seized under section 104(c)(2)(D); and shall remain available until expended. . Subsection
(c)of section 405 of the Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972 ( 16 U.S.C. 1421d ) is amended— in paragraph (2), by striking and at the end; in paragraph (3), by striking the period at the end and inserting a semicolon; and by adding at the end the following: sums received for marine mammal conservation, including assessment costs, fines, penalties, restitution, natural resource damages, and forfeitures of property for violations of any provision of this Act or other environmental statute and sums received from emergency declaration grants for marine mammal conservation; and up to $750,000 per fiscal year, as determined by the Secretary of Commerce and the Secretary of the Interior, from amounts appropriated to the Secretary for carrying out this title and other titles of this Act. .
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Unusual mortality event activity funding
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