Threatened Species Protection Improvement Act of 2021

Threatened Species Protection Improvement Act of 2021

This bill provides statutory authority for the rule published on August 27, 2019, by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service relating to threatened species. The rule requires species listed as threatened after the issuance of the rule to be given protections tailored to the species' needs. Prior to the rule, threatened species were automatically provided with most of the protections that are provided to endangered species.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5725 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 5725

 To codify a final rule of the United States Fish and Wildlife Service 
 relating to endangered and threatened species, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            October 26, 2021

  Mr. Buck (for himself, Mr. Westerman, Mr. Newhouse, and Mr. Gosar) 
 introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
                           Natural Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
 To codify a final rule of the United States Fish and Wildlife Service 
 relating to endangered and threatened species, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Threatened Species Protection 
Improvement Act of 2021''.

SEC. 2. CODIFICATION OF FINAL RULE.

    The revisions to the Code of Federal Regulations made pursuant to 
the final rule of the United States Fish and Wildlife Service of the 
Department of the Interior, titled ``Endangered and Threatened Wildlife 
and Plants; Regulations for Prohibitions to Threatened Wildlife and 
Plants'' and published in the Federal Register on August 27, 2019 (84 
Fed. Reg. 44753), shall have the same force and effect of law as if 
enacted by an Act of Congress.
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