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Introduced August 3, 1995, by Randy Cunningham (R-CA) and referred to the Committee on Resources. This Act may be cited as the "International Dolphin Conservation Act Amendments of 1995."
The purposes of this act are the following: to ensure a viable and ecologically sound tuna fishery in the eastern tropical Pacific Ocean, including avoidance of bycatch of nontargeted marine species, maintenance of healthy stocks of tuna, and protection of marine mammal populations; to otherwise strengthen and improve international efforts to reduce incidental dolphin mortality to insignificant levels approaching a zero mortality and serious injury rate as required by the Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972.
Congress finds the following: Although in past years the yellowfin tuna fishery of the eastern tropical Pacific Ocean has resulted in excessive incidental mortality to dolphins, efforts by tuna fishermen operating under United States and international conservation programs have reduced this incidental mortality to levels that are approaching a zero mortality and serious injury rate; Support of the "International Dolphin Conservation Program" is necessary to assure that these low levels of dolphin mortality are maintained and eventually eliminated.
Introduced June 27, 1995, by Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and referred to the Committee on Finance. Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade on August 8, 1995. Referred to the Subcommittee on Fisheries, Wildlife and Oceans on August 9, 1995. This act may be cited as the "Bear Protection Act." For purposes of this act the term "bear viscera" is defined as body fluids or internal organs (including the gallbladder) of a species of bear.
The Secretary of the Interior shall prohibit the import into the United States, or export from the United States, of bear viscera or products that contain or claim to contain bear viscera. The sale, barter, offer of sale or barter, purchase, or possession with intent to sell or barter, in interstate or foreign commerce, of bear viscera or products that contain or claim to contain bear viscera is prohibited. Related bills: H.R. 2240, H.R. 353.
Introduced May 9, 1995, by Slade Gorton (R-WA) and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works. This act may be cited as the "Endangered Species Reform Act of 1995."
The purposes of this act are: to improve and protect the integrity of the programs established under the Endangered Species Act of 1973 (16 U.S.C. 1531 et seq.) for the conservation of endangered species and threatened species; to ensure the scientific validity of decisions to designate the species and the critical habitat of the species; to ensure balanced consideration of all impacts of decisions implementing the act; to make the conservation planning process central to, and reduce the number of decisions needed for, the implementation of the Act; to provide for equitable treatment of non-Federal persons and Federal agencies under the act; to ameliorate the impact of the act on, and provide less costly and time-consuming procedures for, non-Federal lands; and to encourage non-Federal persons to contribute voluntarily to species conservation. Related bills: H.R. 2275, H.R. 490, S. 191, H.R. 571, S.239.
Introduced May 11, 1995, by Susan Molinari (R-NY) and referred to the Committee on Banking and Financial Services. Referred to the Subcommittee on Housing and Community Opportunity on May 19, 1995. This act may be cited as the "National Senior Citizens Pet Ownership Protection Act."
Section 227 of the Housing and Urban-Rural Recovery Act of 1983 (12 U.S.C. 1701r-1) is amended by inserting a new section entitled "pet ownership by elderly and disabled families in federally assisted rental housing." Section 227 outlines the rights of elderly and disabled families to own common household pets in federally assisted rental housing. Managers of federally assisted rental housing may not restrict or discriminate against any elderly family in connection with admission to, or continued occupancy of, such housing by reason of pet ownership, or by the presence of such pets in the dwelling accommodations.
Managers may prescribe reasonable rules for the keeping of pets, that consider factors such as density of tenants, pet size, types of pets, potential financial obligations of tenants, and standards of pet care.
Introduced May 9, 1995, by Nancy Landon Kassebaum (R-KS) and referred to the Committee on Labor and Human Resources. This act may be cited as the "Animal Drug Availability Act of 1995."
Congress finds that: the new animal drug approval process has been proceeding too slowly, with the result that necessary and useful drug therapies are being kept from the marketplace; the lack of drug approvals for new animal drugs places the health and well-being of animals at risk; the expense and delays caused by effectiveness testing for new animal drugs have begun to outweigh the benefits of such testing; the over-reliance on field investigations to establish the effectiveness of new animal drugs is a primary reason the new animal drug approval process has become so burdensome.
Further sections of the bill: define drug effectiveness; limitation on residues; export of new animal drugs; and dispute resolutions.
Introduced July 28, 1995, by Pete Domenici (R-NM) and reported to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources as amended. Senate Report 104-123 issued. This act may be cited as the "Livestock Grazing Act."
Congress finds that through the cooperative and concerted efforts of the Federal rangeland livestock industry, Federal and State land management agencies, and the general public, the Federal rangelands are in the best condition they have been in during this century, and their condition continues to improve. Populations of big game and wildlife are increasing and stabilizing across vast areas of the West. Maintaining the economic viability of the western livestock industry is essential to maintaining open space and habitat for big game, wildlife, and fish, but currently there are pressures to sell the base property of the Federal land ranches for subdivision or other development, which would reduce or remove the available open space for fish and wildlife habitat.
The objective of this act is to achieve orderly use, improvement, and development of Federal land; enhancement of productivity of Federal land by conservation of forage resources and reduction of soil erosion; consideration of wildlife populations and habitat, consistent with land-use plans.
Introduced May 3, 1995, by Conrad Burns (R-MT) and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Referred to the Subcommittee on Parks, Preservation and Recreation on May 4, 1995. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources requested executive comment from the Department of the Interior, and the Office of Management and Budget on July 20, 1995.
The Secretary of the Interior, acting through the Director of the National Park Service, shall: perform a blood test of each bison in the herd inhabiting Yellowstone National Park for brucellosis; State veterinarians of the States of Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming, will vaccinate and restrain under quarantine restrictions each bison that tests negative for brucellosis; engage the services of a team of independent range scientists to determine the optimum population of bison that the land available for the herd in Yellowstone National Park is capable of sustaining; in consultation with the Secretary of the Interior, appropriate officials of Indian tribes, the States of Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming, and other interested parties, identify locations outside the Park that would be suitable for sustaining herds of bison created from any excess number of bison in the Yellowstone herd that are certified as being free of brucellosis, in accordance with standards established under the law of the States of Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming; and after brucellosis has been eradicated, continue to reduce the population of the Yellowstone herd to a number that is approximately 500 below the optimum population by transferring the excess number of bison.
Introduced May 2, 1995, by Joel Hefley (R-CO) and referred to the Committee on National Security. This act may be cited as the "Military Construction Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1996."
The Secretary of the Air Force authorizes conveyance of the Primate Research Laboratory at Holloman Air Force Base, and ownership of the colony of Air Force-owned chimpanzees used in connection with research at the laboratory, to the Coulston Foundation or, if the Coulston Foundation is unwilling or unable to accept the conveyance, to any other not-for-profit entity which the Secretary finds is capable of utilizing the laboratory, able to provide adequate care for the Air Force-owned chimpanzees, and is otherwise well qualified to operate the laboratory in a manner which will further scientific and medical research.
Introduced June 6, 1995, by Nancy Landon Kassebaum (R-KS) and referred to the Committee on Labor and Human Resources. Senate report 104-93 issued.
Section 481B(a) of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 287a-3(a)) is amended to decrease funding for the construction of regional centers for research on primates from $5,000,000 to $2,500,000.
Introduced on June 30, 1995, by Ralph Regula (R-OH) and referred to the House Committee on Appropriations. Measure passed House with amendments on July 18, 1995, and reported to Senate from the Committee on Appropriations with amendments on July 28, 1995. Measure passed Senate on August 9, 1995. House Report 104-259 filed in House on September 21, 1995.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, that the following sums are appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the Department of the Interior and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1996, and for other purposes. The following are provisions directly relating to wildlife conservation:
For expenses necessary to carry out the provisions of the Endangered Species Act of 1973 (16 U.S.C. 1531-1543), as amended by Public Law 100-478, $8,085,000 for grants to States, to be derived from the Cooperative Endangered Species Conservation Fund, and to remain available until expended.
For expenses necessary to implement the Act of October 17, 1978, the National Wildlife Refuge Fund (16 U.S.C. 715s), $10,779,000, to remain available until expended.
For expenses necessary to carry out the provisions of the African Elephant Conservation Act (16 U.S.C. 4201-4203, 4211-4213, 4221-4225, 4241-4245, and 1538), $600,000, to remain available until expended.
For deposit to the Rhinoceros and Tiger Conservation Fund, $200,000, to remain available until expended, to be available to carry out the provisions of the Rhinoceros and Tiger Conservation Act of 1994 (P.L. 103-391).
For deposit to the Wildlife Conservation and Appreciation Fund, $998,000, to remain available until expended, to be available for carrying out the Partnerships for Wildlife Act only to the extent such funds are matched as provided in section 7105 of said act.
Introduced June 15, 1995, by Ed Royce (R-CA) and referred to the Committee on Appropriations, and the Committee on the Budget.
The following rescissions in sums of money appropriated by Congress to the Department of Agriculture and the Department of the Interior, for fiscal year ending September 30, 1995, will be made. Of the funds made available for Agricultural Research Service, USDA, for buildings and facilities under Public Law 103-330 and other Acts, $14,178,000 is rescinded, including $12,678,000 for construction of the National Swine Research Center.
Of the funds made available to the Cooperative State Research Service, USDA, under Public Law 103-330, $7,586,000 is rescinded, including $524,000 for contracts and grants for agricultural research under the Act of August 4, 1965, as amended (7 U.S.C. 450i(c)); $434,000 for necessary expenses of Cooperative State Research Service activities; $327,000 for cool season legume; $188,000 for entomology acoustics detection; $220,000 for low bush blueberry; $4,200,000 for wood utilization; $1,000,000 for geographic information systems; and $600,000 for agricultural development in the American Pacific: Provided, That the amount of "$9,917,000" available under this heading in Public Law 103-330 (108 Stat. 2441) for a program of capacity building grants to colleges eligible to receive funds under the Act of August 30, 1890, is amended to read "$9,207,000."
Of the funds made available to the USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service for buildings and facilities under Public Law 103-330, $2,000,000 is rescinded. Of the funds made available to the Department of the Interior in Public Law 103-332, Public Law 103-138, Public Law 102-381, and Public Law 101-512, $1,076,000 is rescinded. Of the funds available for the National Biological Survey for research, inventories, and surveys by Public Law 103-138, $14,549,000 is rescinded. Of the funds available to the Smithsonian Institution for construction and improvements to the national zoological park, under Public Law 102-381 and Public Law 103-138, $1,000,000 is rescinded.
No funds available to the USDA Forest Service may be used to implement Habitat Conservation Areas in the Tongass National Forest for species which have not been declared threatened or endangered pursuant to the Endangered Species Act, except that with respect to goshawks the Forest Service may impose interim Goshawk Habitat Conservation Areas not to exceed 300 acres per active nest consistent with the guidelines utilized in national forests in the continental United States.
Introduced May 15, 1995, by John McCain (R-AZ). Measure passed Senate with amendments on July 17, 1995. Referred to the House Committee on Government Reform and Oversight on September 12, 1995. This act may be cited as the "Federal Reports Elimination and Sunset Act of 1995."
Title I , Subtitle A, lists Department of Agriculture reports that are to be eliminated or modified. Section 1012 modifies the report on Animal Welfare Enforcement section 25 of the Animal Welfare Act (7 U.S.C. 2155) to include the report on the Horse Protection Act of 1970 (15 U.S. C. 1830).
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