[Congressional Bills 113th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2748 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

113th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 2748

 To amend the Endangered Species Act of 1973 to conform citizen suits 
    under that Act with other existing law, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             July 31, 2014

    Mr. Lee introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
       referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend the Endangered Species Act of 1973 to conform citizen suits 
    under that Act with other existing law, 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 ``Endangered Species Litigation 
Reasonableness Act''.

SEC. 2. AWARD OF LITIGATION COSTS TO PREVAILING PARTIES IN ACCORDANCE 
              WITH EXISTING LAW.

    Section 11(g)(4) of the Endangered Species Act of 1973 (16 U.S.C. 
1540(g)(4)) is amended by striking ``to any'' and all that follows 
through the end of the sentence and inserting ``to any prevailing party 
in accordance with section 2412 of title 28, United States Code.''.
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