[Congressional Bills 109th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4567 Introduced in House (IH)]







109th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 4567

To prohibit the manufacture, processing, possession, or distribution in 
   commerce of the poison sodium fluoroacetate (known as ``Compound 
  1080''), to provide for the collection and destruction of remaining 
   stocks of sodium fluoroacetate, to compensate persons who turn in 
 sodium fluoroacetate to the Secretary of Agriculture for destruction, 
                       and for other purposes.''


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           December 16, 2005

 Mr. DeFazio introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on 
    Agriculture and the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently 
   determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such 
 provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned

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                                 A BILL


 
To prohibit the manufacture, processing, possession, or distribution in 
   commerce of the poison sodium fluoroacetate (known as ``Compound 
  1080''), to provide for the collection and destruction of remaining 
   stocks of sodium fluoroacetate, to compensate persons who turn in 
 sodium fluoroacetate to the Secretary of Agriculture for destruction, 
                       and for other purposes.''

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

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Sodium Fluoroacetate Elimination 
Act''.

SEC. 2. IMMEDIATE PROHIBITION ON MANUFACTURE, PROCESSING, OR 
              DISTRIBUTION IN COMMERCE OF SODIUM FLUOROACETATE 
              (COMPOUND 1080).

    (a) Amendment of Toxic Substances Control Act.--Section 6 of the 
Toxic Substances Control Act (15 U.S.C. 2605) is amended by adding at 
the end the following new subsection:
    ``(f) Compound 1080.--No person may manufacture, process, or 
distribute in commerce sodium fluoroacetate (known as `Compound 1080'). 
''.
    (b) Effective Date.--The amendment made by subsection (a) shall 
take effect on the date of the enactment of this Act.

SEC. 3. COLLECTION AND DESTRUCTION OF STOCKS OF SODIUM FLUOROACETATE.

    (a) Collection.--During the 18-month period beginning on the first 
day of the first month beginning on or after the date of the enactment 
of this Act, the Secretary of Agriculture shall solicit and accept the 
transfer of stocks of the poison sodium fluoroacetate (known as 
``Compound 1080'') held in public or private ownership in the United 
States.
    (b) Compensation.--The Secretary of Agriculture shall compensate 
persons (other than a Federal agency) that transfer sodium 
fluoroacetate to the Secretary during the period specified in 
subsection (a) for the reasonable value of the sodium fluoroacetate 
acquired by the Secretary.
    (c) Destruction.--The Secretary of Agriculture shall destroy all 
sodium fluoroacetate acquired under this section and all stocks of 
sodium fluoroacetate held by the Department of Agriculture as of the 
date of the enactment of this Act. The Secretary may not use sodium 
fluoroacetate in the Wildlife Services Program of the Department.
    (d) Inventory.--During the period specified in subsection (a), the 
Secretary of Agriculture shall conduct an inventory in an attempt to 
identify those persons who hold stocks of sodium fluoroacetate so that 
such persons are given the opportunity to transfer the sodium 
fluoroacetate to the Secretary under this section and to receive 
compensation for the sodium fluoroacetate. The Secretary of Agriculture 
shall conduct the inventory in cooperation with the Administrator of 
the Environmental Protection Agency and the Secretary of Homeland 
Security.
    (e) Funding Source.--Amounts appropriated to the Department of 
Agriculture for the Wildlife Services Program shall be available to 
provide the compensation required by subsection (b). If such amounts 
are insufficient to provide compensation to all persons entitled to 
compensation under such subsection, the Secretary of Agriculture shall 
use other funds appropriated or otherwise made available to the 
Department.

SEC. 4. PROHIBITION ON POSSESSION OF SODIUM FLUOROACETATE.

    (a) Prohibition.--Whoever (other than a person acting under the 
authority of section 3(c)) possesses sodium fluoroacetate shall be 
fined under title 18, United States Code, or imprisoned not more than 
two years, or both.
    (b) Effective Date.--This section shall take effect at the end of 
the 18-month period beginning on the first day of the first month 
beginning on or after the date of the enactment of this Act.
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