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90Tml CONGRESS } HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES REPORT
:2d Se8e.ion No. 1102
ENDANGERED SPECIES
FEBRUARY 21, 1968.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the
State of the Union and ordered to be printed
Mr. GARMATZ, from the Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries,
submitted the following
REPORT
[To accompany H.R. 11618]
The Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries, to whom was
referred the bill (H.R. 11618) to prevent the importation of endangered
species of fish or wildlife into the United States; to prevent the inter-
state shipment of reptiles, amphibians, and other wildlife taken con-
trary to State law; and for other purposes, having considered the
same, report favorably thereon with an amendment and recommend
that the bill as amended do pass.
The amendment is as follows:
Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert in lieu thereof the
following:
That (a) no person shall import into the United States, its territories or posses-
sions, or the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, any species or subspecies of fish or
wildlife or parts thereof which the Secretary of the Interior determines to be
threatened with extinction, except as provided in subsection (b) of this section.
A species or subspecies of fish or wildlife shall be regarded as threatened with
extinction whenever the Secretary of the Interior finds, after consultation with
the affected foreign country, and, when appropriate, with the International
Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources, that its existence
is endangered because its habitat Is threatened with destruction, drastic modifica-
tion, or severe curtailment, or because of commercial exploitation, through exports
and imports of aminals and parts thereof, or by other means, or because of disease,
predation, or other factors. He shall, from time to time, publish in the Federal
Register the names of the species or subspecies of fish or wildlife found to be
threatened with extinction under this section.
(b) The Secretary of the Interior may permit, under such terms and conditions
as he may prescribe, the importation of any species or subspecies of fish or wild-
life or parts thereof that are threatened with extinction for zoological, educational,
and scientific purposes.
(c) For the purposes of facilitating enforcement of this section and reducing
the costs thereof, the importation of all fish or wildlife and the parts thereof into
any port in the United States, except such as may be designated by the Secretary
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