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116TH CONGRESS I {
2nd Session j HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
REPORT
116-468
PROTECT OUR REFUGES ACT OF 2019
AUGUST 7, 2020.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State
of the Union and ordered to be printed
Mr. GRIJALVA, from the Committee on Natural Resources,
submitted the following
REPORT
together with
DISSENTING VIEWS
[To accompany H.R. 2854]
[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]
The Committee on Natural Resources, to whom was referred the
bill (H.R. 2854) to amend the National Wildlife Refuge System Ad-
ministration Act of 1966 to prohibit the use of neonicotinoids in a
National Wildlife Refuge, and for other purposes, having considered
the same, reports favorably thereon without amendment and rec-
ommends that the bill do pass.
PURPOSE OF THE BILL
The purpose of H.R. 2854 is to amend the National Wildlife Ref-
uge System Administration Act of 1966 to prohibit the use of
neonicotinoids in National Wildlife Refuges.
BACKGROUND AND NEED FOR LEGISLATION
Neonicotinoids are effective neuro-active insecticides that impair
normal nerve impulses.1 As insecticides, they are especially toxic to
insects (including non-target pollinators), but also have potentially
'See, e.g., ANNE SECORD & KATHLEEN PATNODE, U.S. FWS, PILOT STUDY TO EVALUATE
NEONICOTINOID PESTICIDES IN NEW YORK AND PENNSYLVANIA STREAMS 4 (2018), https://
www.fws.gov/northeast/nyfo/ec/files/Neonicotinoid%2OStudyFinal%2ONov5-2018.pdf.
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