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INFORMATION .
117TH CONGRESS REPORT
2d Session HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 117-567
GLOBAL AMPHIBIAN PROTECTION ACT OF 2021
NOVEMBER 16, 2022.-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
R E P O R T
together with
DISSENTING VIEWS
[To accompany H.R. 2026]
[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]
The Committee on Natural Resources, to whom was referred the
bill (H.R. 2026) to assist in the conservation of highly endangered
amphibian species in foreign countries, and for other purposes,
having considered the same, reports favorably thereon with an
amendment and recommends that the bill as amended do pass.
The amendment is as follows:
Strike all after the enacting clause and insert the following:
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the Global Amphibian Protection Act of 2021.
SEC. 2. DEFINITIONS.
In this Act:
(1) CONVENTION.-The term Convention means the Convention on Inter-
national Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (27 UST 1087;
TIAS 8249).
(2) CONSERVATION.-The term conservation means the protection and res-
toration of species and the habitat of such species.
(3) FUND.-The term Fund means the Highly Endangered Amphibians Con-
servation Fund established by section 4.
(4) HIGHLY ENDANGERED AMPHIBIAN SPECIES.-
(A) IN GENERAL.-The term highly endangered amphibian species
means-
(i) any amphibian species categorized on the International Union for
Conservation of Nature Red List of Threatened Species as Endangered,
Critically Endangered, or Extinct in the Wild; and
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