Sec. 4. Unusual mortality event activity funding
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Section 405 the Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972 ( 16 U.S.C. 1421d ) is amended— by striking subsection
(b)and inserting the following: 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 designated under section 404(a)(2)(B)(iii); for reimbursing any stranding network participant for costs incurred in the collection, preparation, analysis, and transportation of marine mammal tissues and samples collected with respect to an unusual mortality event for the Tissue Bank; and for the care and maintenance of a marine mammal seized under section 104(c)(2)(D); and shall remain available until expended. ; and in subsection (c)— 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: not more than $250,000 per year, as determined by the Secretary of Commerce, from sums collected as fines, penalties, or forfeitures of property by the Secretary of Commerce for violations of any provision of this Act; and sums received from emergency declaration grants for marine mammal conservation. .
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Unusual mortality event activity funding
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