To provide fisheries disaster relief, conduct a study on ecosystem services, and conduct an enhanced stock assessment for the Gulf of Mexico fisheries impacted by the Deepwater Horizon oil discharge.

SA 4287. Mr. SHELBY (for himself, Mr. Vitter, and Mr. LeMieux) submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill H.R. 4899, making emergency supplemental appropriations for disaster relief and summer jobs for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2010, and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

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funding for environmental and fisheries impacts

Sec. 2002.

(1) Fisheries disaster relief.--For an additional amount, in addition to other amounts provided in this Act for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, $20,000,000 to be available to provide fisheries disaster relief under section 312 of the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act (16 U.S.C. 1861a) related to a commercial fishery failure due to a fishery resource disaster in the Gulf of Mexico that resulted from the Deepwater Horizon oil discharge.

(2) Expanded stock assessment of fisheries.--For an additional amount, in addition to other amounts provided in this Act for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, $15,000,000 to conduct an expanded stock assessment of the fisheries of the Gulf of Mexico. Such expanded stock assessment shall include an assessment of the commercial and recreational catch and biological sampling, observer programs, data management and processing activities, the conduct of assessments, and follow-up evaluations of such fisheries.

(3) Ecosystem services impacts study.--For an additional amount, in addition to other amounts provided for the Department of Commerce, $1,000,000 to be available for the National Academy of Sciences to conduct a study of the long-term ecosystem service impacts of the Deepwater Horizon oil discharge. Such study shall assess long-term costs to the public of lost water filtration, hunting, and fishing (commercial and recreational), and other ecosystem services associated with the Gulf of Mexico.

In General.--Of the amounts appropriated or made available under Division B, Title III of Public Law 111-117 that remain unobligated as of the date of the enactment of this Act for ISS Cargo Crew Services, $36,000,000 of the amounts appropriated are hereby rescinded.