To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to provide financial assistance to the State of Maryland for a pilot program to develop measures to eradicate or control nutria and restore marshland damaged by nutria.

[AI summary unavailable — showing source text] Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to provide financial assistance to the State of Maryland for a pilot program to develop methods to: (1) eradicate nutria in Maryland; (2) eradicate or control nutria in other States; and (3) develop methods to restore marshland damaged by nutria. Directs the Secretary to require that the pilot program consist of management, research, and public education activities carried out in accordance with a certain document. Limits the Federal share of total pilot program costs to 75 percent. Limits the amount of the Federal financial assistance that may for used for administrative expenses to ten percent. Authorizes appropriations.…