The U.S. House of Representatives announced yesterday a new bill to be introduced that would effectively remove the gray wolf in the United States from consideration as a species to be protected under the Endangered Species Act. As of this date, cosponsors for the bill included: Jim Matheson (D-UT), Cynthia Lummis (R-WY), Mike Ross (D-AR), Rob Bishop (R-UT), Leonard Boswell (D-IA), Dan Boren (D-OK), Paul Broun (R-GA), Dennis Cardoza (D-CA), Jason Chaffetz (R-UT), Dean Heller (R-NV), John Kline (R-MN), Raul Labrador (R-ID), Mike Simpson (R-ID), Greg Walden (R-OR) and Don Young (R-AK).
During the final days of the 111th session of Congress, bills HR6028 and S3919 never made it out of committee. It is expected the Senate will introduce a similar bill early next week. As yet, no listing of Senate sponsors has been made available but during the last session S3919 was sponsored by: Risch (Idaho), Crapo (Idaho), Barrasso (Wyoming), Enzi (Wyoming), Hatch (Utah), McCain (Arizona)
This new bill, which doesn’t appear to have a number yet, has slightly different wording but accomplishes the same thing.
The bill will simply amend Section 4 of the Endangered Species Act to add part (j): ‘‘(j) EXEMPTION OF GRAY WOLF.—This Act shall not apply to the gray wolf (canis lupus).’’
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(Original Signature of Member)
112TH CONGRESS
1ST SESSION H. R. ll
To amend the Endangered Species Act of 1973 to provide that Act shall not apply to the gray wolf (canis lupus).
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Mr. REHBERG introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on ________________
A BILL
To amend the Endangered Species Act of 1973 to provide that Act shall not apply to the gray wolf (canis lupus).
1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa
2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
3 SECTION 1. EXEMPTION OF GRAY WOLF FROM ENDAN
4 GERED SPECIES ACT OF 1973.
5 Section 4 of the Endangered Species Act of 1973 (16
6 U.S.C. 1533) is amended by adding at the end the fol
7 lowing:
8 ‘‘(j) EXEMPTION OF GRAY WOLF.—This Act shall
9 not apply to the gray wolf (canis lupus).’’.
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