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H.R.4496
Sponsor: Rep Simpson, Michael K.(introduced 5/18/2000)
Latest Major Action: 6/5/2000 House committee/subcommittee actions: Executive Comment Requested from Interior.
Title: To provide for the reintroduction of the Eastern Timber Wolf in the Catskill Mountains, New York, and to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to acquire lands through the Bureau of Land Management to facilitate that reintroduction.
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TITLE(S):  (italics indicate a title for a portion of a bill)
STATUS: (color indicates Senate actions)
5/18/2000:
Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
6/5/2000:
Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks and Public Lands.
6/5/2000:
Executive Comment Requested from Interior.
COMMITTEE(S):
RELATED BILL DETAILS:

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AMENDMENT(S):

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COSPONSORS(17), ALPHABETICAL [followed by Cosponsors withdrawn]:     (Sort: by date)

Rep Cannon, Chris - 5/18/2000 Rep English, Phil - 5/18/2000
Rep Gibbons, Jim - 5/18/2000 Rep Hansen, James V. - 5/18/2000
Rep Hastings, Doc - 6/19/2000 Rep Hayworth, J. D. - 5/18/2000
Rep Herger, Wally - 5/18/2000 Rep Lewis, John - 5/18/2000
Rep Lipinski, William O. - 5/18/2000 Rep Pastor, Ed - 5/18/2000
Rep Radanovich, George P. - 5/18/2000 Rep Salmon, Matt - 5/18/2000
Rep Schaffer, Bob - 5/18/2000 Rep Stump, Bob - 5/18/2000
Rep Walden, Greg - 5/18/2000 Rep Weldon, Curt - 5/18/2000
Rep Young, Don - 5/18/2000

SUMMARY AS OF:
5/18/2000--Introduced.

Protecting America's Wolves Act - Directs the Secretary of the Interior to prepare and publish a recovery plan for the Eastern Timber Wolf in the Northeastern United States, including a plan for releasing such wolves in the Catskill Mountains, New York.

Requires that such Plan include: (1) goals for biological recovery of such wolf; (2) a process and method for obtaining such wolves from Canada; (3) an outline of how releases will proceed; (4) a determination of the number of such wolves that should be released to ensure a self-sustaining population; (5) a process for compensating New York residents for depredation of livestock by such wolves, including establishment of the Protecting Eastern Timber Wolf Restoration Mitigation Fund; and (6) a study of the feasibility of releasing such wolves in other parts of New York and of reducing road densities in certain areas of New York to provide for wolf dispersal corridors.

Prohibits applying the exception under the Endangered Species Act of 1973 with respect to experimental populations to any population of such wolves released under this Act.

Authorizes the Secretary to acquire land for sites for releases of such wolves. Requires the Secretary to begin releasing such wolves on such land by the latest of: (1) the date that is three years after this Act's enactment date; (2) the date on which the Secretary has obtained such wolves; or (3) the date on which the Secretary has obtained such land for that release.

Directs the Secretary to designate areas in New York as critical habitat of such wolf for purposes of such Act.