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A bill to direct the Secretary of the Interior to reissue the final rules relating to the listing of the gray wolf in the Western Great Lakes and the State of Wyoming under the Endangered Species Act…

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A bill to direct the Secretary of the Interior to reissue the final rules relating to the listing of the gray wolf in the Western Great Lakes and the State of Wyoming under the Endangered Species Act of 1973.

Introduced: January 17, 2017 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.
Jan 17, 2017
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This bill requires the Department of the Interior to reissue two rules that removed protections under the Endangered Species Act of 1973 for the gray wolf populations located in Wyoming and the western Great Lakes (all of Wisconsin, Michigan, and Minnesota, as well as portions of North Dakota, South Dakota, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio). In addition, this bill prohibits judicial review of the reissued rules.

What's happening now January 17, 2017

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

 Related & companion bills 2
  • HR 3668 Related bill SHARE Act
  • HR 424 Related bill Gray Wolf State Management Act of 2017
 Bill text 1 version

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 Committees of jurisdiction 1
 Cosponsors 3
All 3 Democratic 2 Republican 1
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Baldwin, Tammy
Wisconsin · Jan 17, 2017
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Barrasso, John
Wyoming · Jan 17, 2017
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Klobuchar, Amy
Minnesota · Jan 17, 2017
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U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 164: A bill to direct the Secretary of the Interior to reissue the final rules relating to the listing of the gray wolf in the Western Great Lakes and the State of Wyoming under the Endangered Species Act of 1973.. 115th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/115-S-164/
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"S. 164: A bill to direct the Secretary of the Interior to reissue the final rules relating to the listing of the gray wolf in the Western Great Lakes and the State of Wyoming under the Endangered Species Act of 1973.." 115th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/115-S-164/.
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S. 164, 115th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/115-S-164/.
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