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S 831 116th Congress Senate Animals Administrative law and regulatory procedures Department of the Interior Endangered and threatened species Judicial review and appeals Mammals Michigan Minnesota Wisconsin Wyoming

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

Introduced: March 14, 2019 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.
Mar 14, 2019
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 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

This bill addresses the removal of federal protections for the gray wolf (Canis lupus).

Specifically, the Department of the Interior must reinstate a rule that removed the gray wolf in the Western Great Lakes region from the endangered and threatened species list. The bill exempts the reinstated rule from judicial review.

In addition, it exempts from judicial review a reinstated rule that removes the gray wolf in Wyoming from the list.

What's happening now March 14, 2019

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

 Bill text 1 version

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 Cosponsors 2
All 2 Democratic 1 Republican 1
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Baldwin, Tammy
Wisconsin · Mar 14, 2019
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Barrasso, John
Wyoming · Mar 14, 2019
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APA
U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 831: A bill to direct the Secretary of the Interior to reissue final rules relating to listing the gray wolf in the Western Great Lakes and Wyoming under the Endangered Species Act of 1973.. 116th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/116-S-831/
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"S. 831: A bill to direct the Secretary of the Interior to reissue final rules relating to listing the gray wolf in the Western Great Lakes and Wyoming under the Endangered Species Act of 1973.." 116th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/116-S-831/.
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S. 831, 116th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/116-S-831/.
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