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kind: "diff"
citation: "H.R. 723"
bill: "113-hr-723"
heading: "Wood-Pawcatuck Watershed Protection Act"
from: "ih"
from_label: "Introduced in House"
to: "rh"
to_label: "Reported in House"
sections_amended: 1
sections_added: 0
sections_removed: 0
url: "https://uscodex.org/bills/113/hr/723/changes/rh"
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# H.R. 723 — what changed

H.R. 723, Wood-Pawcatuck Watershed Protection Act — 1 section amended between Introduced in House and Reported in House.

Edits are marked `<del>struck</del>` and `<ins>inserted</ins>`.

## Sec. 2 Beaver, Chipuxet, Queen, Wood, and Pawcatuck Rivers Study

- (a) Designation for study— Section 5(a) of the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act (16 U.S.C. 1276(a)) is amended by adding at the end the following:
  - “(__) Beaver, Chipuxet, Queen, Wood, and Pawcatuck Rivers, Rhode Island and Connecticut—The approximately 10-mile segment of the Beaver River from its headwaters in Exeter, Rhode Island, to its confluence with the Pawcatuck River; the approximately 5-mile segment of the Chipuxet River from Hundred Acre Pond to its outlet into Worden Pond; the approximately 10-mile segment of the upper Queen River from its headwaters to the Usquepaugh Dam in South Kingstown, Rhode Island, and including all its tributaries; the approximately 5-mile segment of the lower Queen (Usquepaugh) River from the Usquepaugh Dam to its confluence with the Pawcatuck River; the approximately 11-mile segment of the upper Wood River from its headwaters to Skunk Hill Road in Richmond and Hopkinton, Rhode Island, and including all its tributaries; the approximately 10-mile segment of the lower Wood River from Skunk Hill Road to its confluence with the Pawcatuck River; the approximately 28-mile segment of the Pawcatuck River from Worden Pond to Nooseneck Hill Road (RI Rte 3) in Hopkinton and Westerly, Rhode Island; and the approximately 7-mile segment of the lower Pawcatuck River from Nooseneck Hill Road to Pawcatuck Rock, Stonington, Connecticut, and Westerly, Rhode Island.”
- (b) Study and report— Section 5(b) of the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act (16 U.S.C. 1276(b)) is amended by adding at the end the following:
  - “(__) Beaver, Chipuxet, Queen, Wood, and Pawcatuck Rivers, Rhode Island and Connecticut—Not later than 3 years after the date on which funds are made available to carry out this paragraph, the Secretary of the Interior shall—
  - “(A) complete the study of the Beaver, Chipuxet, Queen, Wood, and Pawcatuck Rivers, Rhode Island and Connecticut, described in subsection <del>(a)(__); and</del><ins>(a)(__);</ins>
  - “(B) submit a report describing the results of that study to the appropriate committees of <del>Congress.”</del><ins>Congress;</ins>
  - <ins>“(C) include in the report under subparagraph (B) the effect of the designation under this Act on—</ins>
  - <ins>“(i) existing commercial and recreational activities, such as hunting, fishing, trapping, recreational shooting, motor boat use, or bridge construction;</ins>
  - <ins>“(ii) the authorization, construction, operation, maintenance, or improvement of energy production and transmission infrastructure; and</ins>
  - <ins>“(iii) the authority of State and local governments to manage those activities encompassed in clauses (i) and (ii); and</ins>
  - <ins>“(D) identify—</ins>
  - <ins>“(i) all authorities that will authorize or require the Secretary to influence local land use decisions (such as zoning) or place restrictions on non-Federal land if the area studied is designated under this paragraph;</ins>
  - <ins>“(ii) all authorities that the Secretary may use to condemn property if the area studied is designated under this paragraph; and</ins>
  - <ins>“(iii) all private property located in the area studied under this provision.”</ins>