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Week Ending September 9, 2005

S.1339 A bill to reauthorize the Junior Duck Stamp Conservation and Design Program Act of 1994.

BRIEF

  The Committee on Environment and Public Works reported that the Federal Junior Duck Stamp Conservation and Design Program was created in 1989 by elementary school teacher Dr. Joan Allemand using a National Fish and Wildlife Foundation grant.

   The program facilitates the teaching of wetlands and waterfowl conservation.

   Now, all fifty states participate in the program that incorporates scientific and wildlife management principals into visual arts curriculum with the goal of teaching greater awareness of our Nation’s natural resources. Each year the curriculum leads to the Junior Duck Stamp Contest in which students submit their stamp design art work. The winning art is used for the next stamp design.

Sponsor: Senator James M. Inhofe (R-OK)

Vote: Passed Senate without objection (September 9, 2005)

Cost to the taxpayers: “CBO estimates that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) would spend up to $250,000 in each of fiscal years 2006 through 2010. In recent years, the USFWS has spent less than $200,000 to administer the program, mostly to conduct the annual competition for the design of junior duck stamps.”

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