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U.S. GOVERNMENT
INFORMATION
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115TH CONGRESS f REPORT
2d Session HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 115-487
GRAY WOLF STATE MANAGEMENT ACT OF 2017
JANUARY 8, 2018.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State
of the Union and ordered to be printed
Mr. BISHOP of Utah, from the Committee on Natural Resources,
submitted the following
REPORT
together with
DISSENTING VIEWS
[To accompany H.R. 424]
[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]
The Committee on Natural Resources, to whom was referred the
bill (H.R. 424) to direct the Secretary of the Interior to reissue final
rules relating to listing of the gray wolf in the Western Great
Lakes and Wyoming under the Endangered Species Act of 1973,
and for other purposes, having considered the same, report favor-
ably thereon without amendment and recommend that the bill do
pass.
PURPOSE OF THE BILL
The purpose of H.R. 424 is to direct the Secretary of the Interior
to reissue final rules relating to listing of the gray wolf in the
Western Great Lakes and Wyoming under the Endangered Species
Act of 1973.
BACKGROUND AND NEED FOR LEGISLATION
Gray wolves were listed for protection under the Endangered
Species Act of 1973 (ESA, 16 U.S.C. 1531 et seq.) in 1974. Existing
wolves present in the Western Great Lakes region were protected,
and the federal government introduced the species canis lupus
irremotus to the West by relocating wolves from Canada to central
Idaho and Yellowstone National Park in 1994 and 1995. States,
local citizens, livestock groups, and sportsmen opposed the reintro-
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