US HB3005 | 2017-2018 | 115th Congress

Status

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 3)
Status: Introduced on June 22 2017 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2017-07-05 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Federal Lands.
Pending: House Subcommittee on Federal Lands Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Summary

Grand Canyon Bison Management Act This bill directs the Department of the Interior to publish a management plan to reduce, through humane lethal culling by skilled public volunteers and other nonlethal means, the population of bison in the Grand Canyon National Park in Arizona that Interior determines are detrimental to the uses of the Park. The bill permits the removal by such a volunteer of a full bison harvested from the Park. Interior shall coordinate with and obtain written approval from the Arizona Game and Fish Commission regarding the development and finalization of the management plan. Interior, in developing such plan, must comply with all applicable federal environmental laws, including the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (NEPA).

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Title

Grand Canyon Bison Management Act

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History

DateChamberAction
2017-07-05HouseReferred to the Subcommittee on Federal Lands.
2017-06-22HouseReferred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
2017-06-22HouseIntroduced in House

Same As/Similar To

HB3668 (Related) 2017-09-18 - Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 224.

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