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U.S. OVERNMENT
INFORMATION
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Calendar No. 378
116TH CONGRESS SEAEREPORT
2d Session J SENATE1 116-239
AMERICNS CONSERVATION ENHANCEMENT ACT
JUNE 1, 2020.-Ordered to be printed
Mr. BARRASSO, from the Committee on Environment and Public
Works, submitted the following
REPORT
[To accompany S. 3051]
[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]
The Committee on Environment and Public Works, to which was
referred the bill (S. 3051) to improve protections for wildlife, and
for other purposes, having considered the same, reports favorably
thereon with an amendment in the nature of a substitute and rec-
ommends that the bill, as amended, do pass.
GENERAL STATEMENT AND BACKGROUND
America's Conservation Enhancement Act (ACE Act) is a com-
prehensive wildlife conservation package. It protects wildlife, wild-
life habitat, and enhances recreational hunting and sportfishing,
which are essential activities to ensure continued funding of wild-
life conservation. The bill also addresses depredation challenges,
wildlife disease, and invasive species, as well as authorizes studies
into federal expenditures and improved conservation under the En-
dangered Species Act (ESA).
Human-Predator Interactions
Partly due to recent reporting on human-predator interactions
that resulted in death or bodily harm to people, the public has a
heightened awareness of the mutual danger that such interactions
can pose to each.
While infrequent, the results of even one human-predator inci-
dent can be severe. From 2000 to the present, there have been 113
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