Sec. 206. Study of limited access privilege programs for mixed-use fisheries

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Not later than 1 year after the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Commerce shall seek to enter into an arrangement under which the Ocean Studies Board of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine shall— study the use of limited access privilege programs in mixed-use fisheries, including— identifying any inequities caused by a limited access privilege program; recommending policies to address the inequities identified in subparagraph (A); and identifying and recommending the different factors and information a mixed-use fishery should consider when designing, establishing, or maintaining a limited access privilege program to mitigate any inequities identified in subparagraph (A); and submit to the appropriate committees of Congress a report on the study under paragraph (1), including the recommendations under subparagraphs

(B)and

(C)of paragraph (1). Except as provided in paragraph (2), there shall be a moratorium on the submission and approval of a limited access privilege program for a mixed-used fishery until the date that the report is submitted under subsection (a)(1)(B). Subject to paragraph (3), a Council may submit, and the Secretary of Commerce may approve, for a mixed- use fishery that is managed under a limited access system, a limited access privilege program if such program was part of a pending fishery management plan or plan amendment before the date of enactment of this Act. A Council that approves a limited access privilege program under paragraph

(2)shall, upon issuance of the report required under subparagraph (a), review and, to the extent practicable, revise the limited access privilege program to be consistent with the recommendations of the report or any subsequent statutory or regulatory requirements designed to implement the recommendations of the report. Nothing in this section may be construed to affect a limited access privilege program approved by the Secretary of Commerce before the date of enactment of this Act.