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[119 STAT. 289]
PUBLIC LAW 109-000—MMMM. DD, 2005
[119 STAT. 289]

PUBLIC LAW 109–13—MAY 11, 2005

119 STAT. 289

for the construction, operations and maintenance of an expansion to the West Yellowstone Visitor Information Center to be constructed for visitors to, and administration of, Yellowstone National Park. PESTICIDES TOLERANCE FEES

SEC. 6033. None of the funds in this or any other Appropriations Act may be used by the Environmental Protection Agency or any other Federal agency to develop, promulgate, or publish a pesticides tolerance fee rulemaking. GULF ISLANDS NATIONAL SEASHORE

SEC. 6034. (a) The Secretary of the Interior shall allow the State of Mississippi, its lessees, contractors, and permittees, to conduct, under reasonable regulation not inconsistent with extraction of the oil and gas minerals reserved by the State of Mississippi in the deed referenced in subsection (b): (1) exploration, development and production operations on sites outside the boundaries of Gulf Islands National Seashore that use directional drilling techniques which result in the drill hole crossing into the Gulf Islands National Seashore and passing under any land or water the surface of which is owned by the United States, including terminating in bottom hole locations thereunder; and (2) seismic and seismic-related exploration activities inside the boundaries of Gulf Islands National Seashore to identify the oil and gas minerals located within the boundaries of the Gulf Islands National Seashore under the surface estate conveyed by the State of Mississippi, all of which oil and gas minerals the State of Mississippi reserved the right to extract. (b) The provisions of subsection (a) shall not take effect until the State of Mississippi enters into an agreement with the Secretary providing that any actions by the United States in relation to the provisions in the section shall not trigger any reverter of any estate conveyed by the State of Mississippi to the United States within the Gulf Islands National Seashore in Chapter 482 of the General Laws of the State of Mississippi, 1971, and the quitclaim deed of June 15, 1972.

Mississippi. Minerals.

Contracts.

SURFACE MINING CONTROL AND RECLAMATION ACT

SEC. 6035. Section 402(b) of the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 (30 U.S.C. 1232(b)) is amended by striking ‘‘June 30, 2005,’’ and inserting ‘‘September 30, 2005,’’. RESIDENT AND NONRESIDENT HUNTING AND FISHING REGULATIONS

SEC. 6036. STATE REGULATION OF RESIDENT AND NONRESIDENT HUNTING AND FISHING. (a) SHORT TITLE.—This section may be cited as the ‘‘Reaffirmation of State Regulation of Resident and Nonresident Hunting and Fishing Act of 2005’’. (b) DECLARATION OF POLICY AND CONSTRUCTION OF CONGRESSIONAL SILENCE.— (1) IN GENERAL.—It is the policy of Congress that it is in the public interest for each State to continue to regulate

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Reaffirmation of State Regulation of Resident and Nonresident Hunting and Fishing Act of 2005.

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