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112TH CONGRESS REPORT
1st Session HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 112-308
POLAR BEAR CONSERVATION AND FAIRNESS ACT
OF 2011
DECEMBER 1, 2011.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State
of the Union and ordered to be printed
Mr. HASTINGS of Washington, from the Committee on Natural
Resources, submitted the following
REPORT
together with
DISSENTING VIEWS
[To accompany H.R. 991]
[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]
The Committee on Natural Resources, to whom was referred the
bill (H.R. 991) to amend the Marine Mammal Protection Act of
1972 to allow importation of polar bear trophies taken in sport
hunts in Canada before the date the polar bear was determined to
be a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act of 1973,
having considered the same, report favorably thereon with an
amendment and recommend 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 Polar Bear Conservation and Fairness Act of 2011.
SEC. 2. PERMITS FOR IMPORTATION OF POLAR BEAR TROPHIES TAKEN IN SPORT HUNTS IN
CANADA.
Section 104(c)(5)(D) of the Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972 (16 U.S.C.
1374(c)(5)(D)) is amended to read as follows:
(D)(i) The Secretary of the Interior shall, expeditiously after the expiration
of the applicable 30-day period under subsection (d)(2), issue a permit for the
importation of any polar bear part (other than an internal organ) from a polar
bear taken in a sport hunt in Canada to any person-
(I) who submits, with the permit application, proof that the polar bear
was legally harvested by the person before February 18, 1997; or
(II) who has submitted, in support of a permit application submitted be-
fore May 15, 2008, proof that the polar bear was legally harvested by the
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