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115TH CONGRESS REPORT
2d Session HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 115-735
POLAR BEAR CONSERVATION AND FAIRNESS ACT
JUNE 12, 2018.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of
the Union and ordered to be printed
Mr. BISHOP of Utah, from the Committee on Natural Resources,
submitted the following
REPORT
together with
DISSENTING VIEWS
[To accompany H.R. 224]
[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]
The Committee on Natural Resources, to whom was referred the
bill (H.R. 224) to amend the Marine Mammal Protection Act of
1972 to 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 under the Endangered Species Act of 1973,
and for other purposes, having considered the same, report favor-
ably thereon without amendment and recommend that the bill do
pass.
PURPOSE OF THE BILL
The purpose of H.R. 224 is to amend the Marine Mammal Protec-
tion Act of 1972 to allow importation of polar bear trophies taken
in sport hunts in Canada before the date the polar bear was deter-
mined to be a threatened species under the Endangered Species
Act of 1973.
BACKGROUND AND NEED FOR LEGISLATION
Under the Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972 (MMPA, Pub-
lic Law 92-522), jurisdiction over marine mammals in the wild is
split between the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS), within the
Department of the Interior, and the National Marine Fisheries
Service (NMFS), within the Department of Commerce. FWS has ju-
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