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118TH CONGRESS REPORT
2d Session HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 118-366
WILDLIFE INNOVATION AND LONGEVITY DRIVER
REAUTHORIZATION ACT
JANUARY 30, 2024.-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
[To accompany H.R. 5009]
[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]
The Committee on Natural Resources, to whom was referred the
bill (H.R. 5009) to reauthorize wildlife habitat and conservation
programs, and for other purposes, having considered the same, re-
ports favorably thereon without amendment and recommends that
the bill do pass.
PURPOSE OF THE LEGISLATION
The purpose of H.R. 5009 is to reauthorize wildlife habitat and
conservation programs, and for other purposes.
BACKGROUND AND NEED FOR LEGISLATION
The Partners for Fish and Wildlife Program (Partners Program)
provides free technical and financial assistance to landowners,
managers, tribes, corporations, schools and nonprofits interested in
improving wildlife habitat on their land.1 The Partners Program
was started by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) in 1987
and authorized by Congress in 2006 as a part of the Partners for
Fish and Wildlife Act.2 The Partners Program is currently author-
ized at $75 million annually, but has been funded by Congress at
lower levels, with Congress appropriating $60.2 million for the pro-
'Partners for Fish and Wildlife Program. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. https://
www.fws.gov/program/partners-fish-and-wildlife.
2 P.L. 109-294.
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