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Calendar No. 354
117TH CONGRESS REPORT
2d Session SENATE 117-135
THE RECOVERING AMERICA'S WILDLIFE ACT OF 2021
AUGUST 2, 2022.-Ordered to be printed
Mr. CARPER, from the Committee on Environment and Public
Works, submitted the following
R E P O R T
[To accompany S. 2372]
[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]
The Committee on Environment and Public Works, to which was
referred the bill (S. 2372) to amend the Pittman-Robertson Wildlife
Restoration Act to make supplemental funds available for manage-
ment of fish and wildlife species of greatest conservation need as
determined by State fish and wildlife agencies, and for other pur-
poses, having considered the same, reports favorably thereon with
an amendment in the nature of a substitute and recommends that
the bill, as amended, do pass.
GENERAL STATEMENT
The Recovering America's Wildlife Act, as introduced, would
amend the Pittman-Robertson Wildlife Restoration Act to provide
permanent dedicated funding to states and tribes for wildlife con-
servation. Specifically, the bill would provide $1.3 billion annually
to States for the implementation of State Wildlife Action Plans and
$97.5 million annually to Tribal agencies to work on the recovery
of at-risk species. The bill requires at least 15 percent of the funds
to be spent on threatened and endangered species. Puerto Rico,
D.C., and U.S. Territories receive a set amount of funding; for all
other states, funding allocations are determined by a formula
which is based on the State's size (50 percent), the State's popu-
lation (25 percent), and the share of threatened or endangered spe-
cies (25 percent).
The Recovering America's Wildlife Act (Act), as reported, de-
creases the amount of funding that would be provided to states in
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