[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5144 Introduced in House (IH)]

103d CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5144

To amend the Endangered Species Act of 1973 to provide that no species 
 may be determined to be an endangered species or threatened species, 
     and no critical habitat may be designated, until that Act is 
                             reauthorized.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 30, 1994

   Mr. Edwards of Texas (for himself, Mr. Bonilla, Mr. Stenholm, Mr. 
Fields of Texas, Mr. Pete Geren of Texas, Mr. Sam Johnson of Texas, Mr. 
Sarpalius, Mr. Armey, Mr. Laughlin, Mr. Roberts, Mr. Frost, Mr. Skeen, 
 Mr. Tejeda, Mr. Young of Alaska, Mr. Brewster, Mr. Pombo, Mr. Condit, 
   Mr. Bliley, Mr. Herger, Mr. Callahan, Mr. Calvert, Mr. Collins of 
Georgia, Mr. Dickey, Mr. Doolittle, Ms. Dunn, Mr. Everett, Mr. Hunter, 
  Mr. Hutchinson, Mr. Istook, Mr. Lewis of Kentucky, Mr. Linder, Mr. 
    Lucas, Ms. Molinari, Mr. Rogers, Mr. Royce, Mr. Stump, and Mr. 
 Huffington) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
               Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the Endangered Species Act of 1973 to provide that no species 
 may be determined to be an endangered species or threatened species, 
     and no critical habitat may be designated, until that Act is 
                             reauthorized.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. MORATORIUM ON DETERMINATION OF ENDANGERED SPECIES AND 
              THREATENED SPECIES AND DESIGNATION OF CRITICAL HABITAT.

    Section 4(a) of the Endangered Species Act of 1973 (16 U.S.C. 
1533(a)) is amended by adding at the end the following new paragraph:
            ``(4) Moratorium.--Notwithstanding any other provision of 
        law, during the period beginning on the effective date of this 
        paragraph and ending on the first day thereafter that occurs in 
        a fiscal year for which amounts are specifically authorized by 
        this Act to be appropriated to carry out this Act, the 
        Secretary may not--
                    ``(A) determine that a species is an endangered 
                species or a threatened species for purposes of this 
                Act; or
                    ``(B) designate any critical habitat of a species 
                under this Act.''.
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