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118TH CONGRESS REPORT
2d Session HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 118-918
COMPREHENSIVE GRIZZLY BEAR MANAGEMENT
ACT OF 2023
DECEMBER 18, 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
together with
DISSENTING VIEWS
[To accompany H.R. 1419]
[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]
The Committee on Natural Resources, to whom was referred the
bill (H.R. 1419) to direct the Secretary of the Interior to issue a
new rule removing the Northern Continental Divide Ecosystem
population of grizzly bears from the Federal list of endangered and
threatened wildlife, 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. 1419 is to direct the Secretary of the Interior
to issue a new rule removing the Northern Continental Divide Eco-
system population of grizzly bears from the Federal list of endan-
gered and threatened wildlife.
BACKGROUND AND NEED FOR LEGISLATION
H.R. 1419 requires the Secretary of the Interior to, not later than
180 days after enactment, issue a final rule removing the Northern
Continental Divide Ecosystem (NCDE) population of grizzly bears
from the federal list of endangered and threatened wildlife. The bill
also prohibits the rule from being subject to judicial review.
The grizzly bear was first listed under the Endangered Species
Act (ESA) in 1975 as a threatened species in the lower 48 states.
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