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A bill 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…

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A bill 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.

Introduced: November 10, 2015 Introduced by: Johnson, Ron Republican · Wisconsin See on congress.gov
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Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
Nov 10, 2015
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 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

This bill requires the Department of the Interior to reissue: (1) the final rule published on December 28, 2011, that removed the gray wolf in the Western Great Lakes Distinct Population Segment from the List of Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and that removed the designation of critical habitat for that wolf in Minnesota and Michigan; and (2) the final rule published on September 10, 2012, that removed the gray wolf in Wyoming from the list and removed the Yellowstone Experimental Protection Area that was established to facilitate reintroduction of the wolf.

Rules reissued under this Act are not subject to judicial review.

What's happening now November 10, 2015

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.

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Barrasso, John
Wyoming · Nov 10, 2015
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U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 2281: A bill 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.. 114th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/114-S-2281/
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"S. 2281: A bill 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.." 114th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/114-S-2281/.
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S. 2281, 114th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/114-S-2281/.
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