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A bill to amend the Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972 to allow importation of polar bear trophies taken in sport hunts in Canada before the date on which the polar bear was determined to be a…

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A bill to amend the Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972 to allow importation of polar bear trophies taken in sport hunts in Canada before the date on which the polar bear was determined to be a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act of 1973.

Introduced: May 25, 2011 Introduced by: Crapo, Mike Republican · Idaho See on congress.gov
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May 25, 2011
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
May 25, 2011
Introduced in Senate
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 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Amends the Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972 to direct the Secretary of the Interior to issue a permit for the importation of polar bear parts taken in a sport hunt in Canada, if legally harvested before: (1) February 18, 1997; or (2) May 15, 2008, from a bear population from which a sport-hunted trophy could be imported before such date. (Polar bears were listed as a threatened species by the Department of the Interior on May 14, 2008.)

What's happening now May 25, 2011

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.

 Related & companion bills 3
  • HR 991 Related bill Polar Bear Conservation and Fairness Act of 2011
  • HR 4089 Related bill Sportsmen's Heritage Act of 2012
  • S 3525 Related bill Sportsmen's Act of 2012
 Bill text 1 version

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 Committees of jurisdiction 1
 Cosponsors 2
All 2 Republican 2
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Murkowski, Lisa
Alaska · May 25, 2011
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Risch, James E.
Idaho · May 25, 2011
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U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 1066: A bill to amend the Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972 to allow importation of polar bear trophies taken in sport hunts in Canada before the date on which the polar bear was determined to be a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act of 1973.. 112th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/112-S-1066/
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"S. 1066: A bill to amend the Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972 to allow importation of polar bear trophies taken in sport hunts in Canada before the date on which the polar bear was determined to be a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act of 1973.." 112th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/112-S-1066/.
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S. 1066, 112th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/112-S-1066/.
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