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U.GOVERNMENT
INFORMATION .
118TH CONGRESS REPORT
1st Session HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 118-206
TRUST THE SCIENCE ACT
SEPTEMBER 20, 2023.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the
State of the Union and ordered to be printed
Mr. WESTERMAN, from the Committee on Natural Resources,
submitted the following
R E P O R T
together with
DISSENTING VIEWS
[To accompany H.R. 764]
[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]
The Committee on Natural Resources, to whom was referred the
bill (H.R. 764) to require the Secretary of the Interior to reissue
regulations removing the gray wolf from the list of endangered and
threatened wildlife under the Endangered Species Act of 1973, hav-
ing considered the same, reports favorably thereon without amend-
ment and recommends that the bill do pass.
PURPOSE OF THE LEGISLATION
The purpose of H.R. 764 is to require the Secretary of the Inte-
rior to reissue regulations removing the gray wolf from the list of
endangered and threatened wildlife under the Endangered Species
Act of 1973.
BACKGROUND AND NEED FOR LEGISLATION
The bill requires the Department of the Interior to reissue the
final rule titled Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants;
Removing the gray wolf (Canis lupus) From the List of Endangered
and Threatened Wildlife and published on November 3, 2020 (85
Fed. Reg. 69778). The rule removed the gray wolf in the lower 48
United States, except for the Mexican wolf (C. 1. baileyi) subspecies,
from the list of protected species under the Endangered Species Act
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