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HR 1443 114th Congress House Animals Arizona Environmental assessment, monitoring, research Hunting and fishing Land use and conservation Mammals Parks, recreation areas, trails

Grand Canyon Bison Management Act

Introduced: March 18, 2015 Introduced by: Gosar, Paul A. Republican · Arizona See on congress.gov
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 Everywhere this bill has been 3 steps
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Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Apr 7, 2015
Referred to the Subcommittee on Federal Lands.
Mar 18, 2015
Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
Mar 18, 2015
Introduced in House
 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Grand Canyon Bison Management Act

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.

Permits the removal by such a volunteer of a full bison harvested from the Park.

Instructs Interior to coordinate with the Arizona Game and Fish Commission regarding the development and implementation of the management plan.

Requires Interior, in developing such plan, to comply with all applicable federal environmental laws, including the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (NEPA).

What's happening now April 7, 2015

Referred to the Subcommittee on Federal Lands.

 Committees of jurisdiction 2
 Cosponsors 4
All 4 Republican 4