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| 2 | 2 | | 118THCONGRESS |
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| 4 | 4 | | STSESSION H. R. 248 |
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| 5 | 5 | | To amend the Endangered Species Act of 1973 to exclude certain populations |
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| 6 | 6 | | of the lesser prairie chicken from the authority of such Act, and for |
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| 7 | 7 | | other purposes. |
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| 8 | 8 | | IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES |
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| 9 | 9 | | JANUARY10, 2023 |
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| 10 | 10 | | Mr. E |
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| 11 | 11 | | STESintroduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee |
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| 12 | 12 | | on Natural Resources |
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| 13 | 13 | | A BILL |
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| 14 | 14 | | To amend the Endangered Species Act of 1973 to exclude |
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| 15 | 15 | | certain populations of the lesser prairie chicken from |
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| 16 | 16 | | the authority of such Act, and for other purposes. |
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| 17 | 17 | | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1 |
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| 18 | 18 | | tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2 |
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| 19 | 19 | | SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3 |
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| 20 | 20 | | This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Promoting Local Man-4 |
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| 21 | 21 | | agement of the Lesser Prairie Chicken Act’’. 5 |
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| 24 | 24 | | •HR 248 IH |
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| 25 | 25 | | SEC. 2. EXCLUSION OF CERTAIN POPULATIONS OF LESSER 1 |
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| 26 | 26 | | PRAIRIE CHICKEN UNDER ENDANGERED SPE-2 |
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| 27 | 27 | | CIES ACT OF 1973. 3 |
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| 28 | 28 | | (a) E |
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| 29 | 29 | | XCLUSION OFCERTAINPOPULATIONS OFLESS-4 |
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| 30 | 30 | | ERPRAIRIECHICKEN.—Section 4(a) of the Endangered 5 |
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| 31 | 31 | | Species Act of 1973 (16 U.S.C. 1533(a)) is amended— 6 |
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| 32 | 32 | | (1) in paragraph (1), by striking ‘‘The Sec-7 |
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| 33 | 33 | | retary shall by regulation’’ and inserting ‘‘Except as 8 |
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| 34 | 34 | | provided in paragraph (4), the Secretary shall by 9 |
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| 35 | 35 | | regulation’’; and 10 |
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| 36 | 36 | | (2) by adding at the end the following: 11 |
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| 37 | 37 | | ‘‘(4) A |
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| 38 | 38 | | PPLICABILITY TO LESSERPRAIRIECHICK-12 |
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| 39 | 39 | | EN.—The Secretary may not make a determination under 13 |
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| 40 | 40 | | this subsection that any population of the lesser prairie 14 |
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| 41 | 41 | | chicken (Tympanuchus pallidicinctus) in Kansas, Okla-15 |
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| 42 | 42 | | homa, Texas, Colorado, or New Mexico is threatened or 16 |
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| 43 | 43 | | endangered.’’. 17 |
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| 44 | 44 | | (b) D |
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| 45 | 45 | | ELISTING OFCERTAINPOPULATIONS OFLESS-18 |
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| 46 | 46 | | ERPRAIRIECHICKEN.—Not later than 60 days after the 19 |
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| 47 | 47 | | date of the enactment of this section, the Secretary of the 20 |
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| 48 | 48 | | Interior shall remove each population of the lesser prairie 21 |
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| 49 | 49 | | chicken (Tympanuchus pallidicinctus) in Kansas, Okla-22 |
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| 50 | 50 | | homa, Texas, Colorado, and New Mexico from the lists 23 |
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| 51 | 51 | | of threatened species and endangered species that are pub-24 |
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| 54 | 54 | | •HR 248 IH |
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| 55 | 55 | | lished pursuant to the Endangered Species Act of 1973 1 |
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| 56 | 56 | | (16 U.S.C. 1531 et seq.). 2 |
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