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U.S. GOVERNMENT
INFORMATION
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Calendar No. 714
111TH CONGRESS REPORT
2d Session SENATE 111-375
MIGRATORY BIRD TREATY ACT PENALTY AND
ENFORCEMENT ACT OF 2009
DECEMBER 17, 2010.-Ordered to be printed
Mrs. BOXER, from the Committee on Environment and Public
Works, submitted the following
REPORT
together with
MINORITY VIEWS
[To accompany H.R. 2062]
[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]
The Committee on Environment and Public Works, to which was
referred a bill (H.R. 2062) to amend the Migratory Bird Treaty Act
(MBTA) to provide for penalties and enforcement for intentionally
taking protected avian species, and for other purposes, having con-
sidered the same, reports favorably thereon and recommends that
the bill do pass.
BACKGROUND AND NEED FOR THE LEGISLATION
The MBTA implements treaties and conventions for the protec-
tion of migratory birds among the U.S., Canada, Japan, Mexico and
the former Soviet Union. Among other things, the Act provides
that, except as expressly permitted by regulation, it is unlawful to
pursue, hunt, take, capture or kill, or attempt to take, capture or
kill, any migratory bird. The Act provides that the Secretary of the
Interior, through the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) shall
adopt regulations determining the extent to which, if at all, hunt-
ing, taking, capturing, killing, possessing, selling, purchasing, ship-
ping, transporting or exporting of any migratory bird, part, nest or
egg are permitted.
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