ENDANGERED SPECIES

Bills and resolutions

Agreement on the Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels: implement (see H.R. 1305), H2038 [15FE]

American Eagle Day: designate (see S. Res. 257), S4169 [20JN]

Birds: authorize U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and National Marine Fisheries Service to engage in activities to improve conditions for albatrosses and petrels (see H.R. 1305), H2038 [15FE]

Bureau of Reclamation: participate in implementation of Platte River Recovery Implementation Program First Increment Extension for threatened and endangered species in the Central and Lower Platte River Basin (see S. 990), S2189 [2AP] (see H.R. 3237), H4627 [12JN]

——— provide for water security, reliability, modernization, and abundance in Western States (see H.R. 5217), H9167 [21NO]

Coastal zones: reduce permitting delays due to Marine Mammal Protection Act regulations by clarifying associated procedures to increase economic development and support coastal restoration programs (see H.R. 3424), H5036 [21JN]

Conservation of natural resources: prohibit import and export of any species listed or proposed to be listed as a threatened or endangered species (see H.R. 2245), H3254 [10AP]

Dept. of Homeland Security: grant authority to waive environmental reviews required by certain legislation for purpose of construction of physical barriers along the southern border (see H.R. 1732), H2716 [13MR]

Dept. of the Interior: create dedicated funds to protect North American butterflies, Pacific Island plants, freshwater mussels, and Southwest desert fish (see S. 3117), S7207 [19DE] (see H.R. 2918), H4118 [22MY]

——— maintain annual base funding for Upper Colorado and San Juan River Basins fish recovery programs and require a report on implementation of those programs (see S. 38), S67 [8JA]

——— periodically reevaluate and display a need for a species to remain on the endangered species list (see H.R. 5095), H8877 [14NO]

Ecology and environment: prohibit listing of a living nonnative species as a threatened species or an endangered species (see S. 2374), S5248 [31JY]

——— provide that nonnative species shall not be treated as endangered or threatened species (see H.R. 30), H201 [3JA]

Endangered Species Act: disclose to States the basis of determinations and ensure use of information provided by State, tribal, and county governments in decisionmaking (see S. 502), S1382 [14FE]

——— encourage construction of critical infrastructure (see H.R. 5445), H10608 [17DE]

——— establish a procedure for approval of certain settlements (see S. 1426), S2786 [13MY]

——— increase transparency, support regulatory certainty, and reauthorize (see H.R. 5467), H10609 [17DE]

——— require publication on the Internet of the basis for determinations that species are endangered or threatened (see S. 1429), S2786 [13MY]

Government regulations: repeal rules that weaken protections of endangered wildlife and fish (see S. 2491), S5539 [17SE] (see H.R. 4348), H7753 [17SE]

Hunting and trapping: allow importation of polar bear trophies taken in sport hunts in Canada before the date the polar bear was determined to be a threatened species (see H.R. 5489), H12210 [18DE]

Marine mammals: support and provide financial resources for North Atlantic right whale conservation programs and projects of persons with expertise required for such conservation (see S. 2453), S5407 [10SE] (see H.R. 1568), H2504 [6MR]

National Orca Protection Month: observance (see H. Res. 418), H4216 [3JN]

Roads and highways: establish a program to allow States to assume certain Federal responsibilities under Endangered Species Act relative to agency actions applicable to highway projects within the States (see S. 1051), S2270 [4AP]

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service: assist in conservation of critically endangered species in foreign countries (see H.R. 4341), H7753 [17SE]

——— assist in conservation of highly endangered amphibian species in foreign countries (see H.R. 4340), H7753 [17SE]

——— consolidate protection of fish and regulation of waterways under Endangered Species Act into a single agency (see H.R. 548), H600 [15JA]

——— increase State and local involvement in management plans under Endangered Species Act (see H.R. 4483), H7901 [24SE]

——— permit States to regulate intrastate endangered and threatened species and allow taking of certain black vultures and ravens to prevent harm to livestock, vehicles, or buildings (see S. 2343), S5196 [30JY]

——— prohibit treatment of certain non-native, non-indigenous hoofstock born in the U.S. as an endangered or threatened species or an essential or nonessential experimental population (see H.R. 4208), H7520 [23AU]

——— protect grizzly bear populations and guarantee Native American tribes a role in conserving and managing the species (see H.R. 2532), H3473 [7MY]

——— reauthorize Partners for Fish and Wildlife Program and certain conservation funds and establish prize competitions on wildlife and endangered species protection and invasive species management (see S. 268), S742 [29JA] (see H.R. 872), H1333 [30JA]

——— reissue final rules relative to listing of gray wolves in the Western Great Lakes and Wyoming under the Endangered Species Act (see S. 831), S1899 [14MR]

——— reissue final rules relative to listing of gray wolves in the Western Great Lakes under the Endangered Species Act (see H.R. 4494), H7989 [25SE]

——— reissue rule delisting grizzly bears in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem and prohibit further judicial review of the decision (see S. 614), S1593 [28FE] (see H.R. 1445), H2313 [28FE]

——— require delisting of Mexican gray wolves under the Endangered Species Act (see S. 3140), S7208 [19DE]

Wildlife: clarify that intrastate species are not in interstate commerce or subject to regulation under the Endangered Species Act or other Federal interstate commerce laws (see S. 1768), S3284 [10JN]

——— increase protections (see S. 3051), S7027 [12DE]

——— prohibit taking any endangered or threatened species of fish or wildlife for a trophy in the U.S. and importation of endangered and threatened species trophies into the U.S. (see H.R. 4804), H8455 [23OC]

World Bonobo Day: designate (see H. Res. 135), H2033 [14FE]

Yavapai County, AZ: authorize, direct, expedite, and facilitate a land exchange (see S. 48), S67 [8JA] (see H.R. 274), H281 [8JA]

Lists

Endangered species, H4645 [13JN]

Remarks in House

American Eagle Day: observance, H4928 [20JN]

Coastal zones: reduce permitting delays due to Marine Mammal Protection Act regulations by clarifying associated procedures to increase economic development and support coastal restoration programs, H9998, H9999 [10DE]

Dept. of State: combating endangered species trafficking and transport of trophies into the U.S. funding, H4644, H4645 [13JN]

Marine mammals: support and provide financial resources for North Atlantic right whale conservation programs and projects of persons with expertise required for such conservation (H.R. 1568), H4933 [20JN]

NOAA: North Atlantic right whale conservation programs funding, H4896 [19JN]

——— prohibit funding for North Atlantic right whale risk reduction decision support tool, H4932, H4933 [20JN]

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service: prohibit funding for issuance of permits for importation of elephant or lion trophies from Zimbabwe, Zambia, or Tanzania, H4954–H4956 [20JN]

——— prohibit funding to list gray wolves as endangered and threatened wildlife under the Endangered Species Act, H4783 [19JN]

——— reauthorize Partners for Fish and Wildlife Program and certain conservation funds and establish prize competitions on wildlife and endangered species protection and invasive species management, H2213 [26FE]

——— remove the gray wolf from list of endangered and threatened wildlife for Minnesota, H5011 [21JN]

Remarks in Senate

American Eagle Day: designate (S. Res. 257), S4195 [20JN]

Bernhardt, David: suitability to be Sec. of the Interior relative to alleged efforts to weaken Endangered Species Act, S2397 [10AP]

NOAA: North Atlantic right whale conservation programs funding, S6209 [29OC]

Reports filed

Albatross and Petrel Conservation Act: Committee on Natural Resources (House) (H.R. 1305) (H. Rept. 116–249), H8386 [22OC]

America’s Conservation Enhancement Act: Committee on Environment and Public Works (Senate) (S. 3051), S7113 [17DE]

Platte River Recovery Implementation Program Extension Act: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources (Senate) (S. 990) (S. Rept. 116–146), S6155 [24OC]

Scientific Assistance for Very Endangered North Atlantic Right Whales (SAVE Right Whales) Act: Committee on Natural Resources (House) (H.R. 1568) (H. Rept. 116–244), H8257 [18OC]

Wildlife Innovation and Longevity Driver (WILD) Act: Committee on Environment and Public Works (Senate) (S. 268), S866 [5FE]

——— Committee on Environment and Public Works (Senate) (S. 268) (S. Rept. 116–18), S1985 [26MR]

Texts of

S. Res. 257, American Eagle Day, S4178 [20JN]