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118TH CONGRESS REPORT
2d Session HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 118-849
NUTRIA ERADICATION AND CONTROL REAUTHORIZATION
ACT OF 2024
DECEMBER 10, 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
REPORT
[To accompany H.R. 8308]
The Committee on Natural Resources, to whom was referred the
bill (H.R. 8308) to reauthorize the Nutria Eradication and Control
Act of 2003, having considered the same, reports favorably thereon
without amendment and recommends that the bill do pass.
PURPOSE OF THE LEGISLATION
The purpose of H.R. 8308 is to reauthorize the Nutria Eradi-
cation and Control Act of 2003.
BACKGROUND AND NEED FOR LEGISLATION
H.R. 8308 reauthorizes the Nutria Eradication and Control Act
of 2003 through FY 2030 at the existing authorization of appropria-
tion levels. Nutria are native to South America but were introduced
to North America in 1899 for fur production.1 Nutria eat, dig, and
trample healthy wetland habitat causing significant amounts of
erosion and habitat damage to native ecosystems. The Chesapeake
Bay Nutria Eradication Project (CBNEP) has been successful, as
nutria was declared eradicated in Maryland as of 2022.2 The
Chesapeake Bay area is one of the great successes of this program,
at the time of original passage an estimated 17 percent of Chesa-
peake marshlands had been destroyed by nutria.3 Efforts have also
'Bill Report, To Amend the Nutria Eradication and Control Act of 2003 to Include California
in the Program, and for Other Purposes. February 25, 2020.
2USWFS, Decades-long Partnership Eradicates Destructive Nutria Rodents from Maryland.
September 16, 2022. https://www.fws.gov/press-release/2022-09/decades-long-partnership-
eradicates-destructive-nutria-rodents-maryland.
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