‘‘(n) USE OF AMOUNTS FROM FINES, FORFEITURES, 
AND
RESTITUTION
RELATING
TO
WILDLIFE
TRAF-
FICKING VIOLATIONS.—Any amounts received by the 
United States as fines, forfeitures of property or assets, 
or restitution to the Government for any violation under 
section 1962 that is based on racketeering activity de-
scribed in section 1961(1)(H) shall be transferred by the 
Secretary of the Treasury, to the extent practicable, to the 
Multinational Species Conservation Fund and used as pro-
vided in advance in appropriations Acts for the benefit of 
the species impacted by the applicable violation.’’. 
(d) TECHNICAL AND CONFORMING AMENDMENTS.— 
(1) USE OF AMOUNTS FROM FINES.—Section 
1402(b)(1)(A) of the Victims of Crime Act of 1984 
(42 U.S.C. 10601(b)(1)(A)) is amended— 
(A) in clause (i), by striking ‘‘and’’ at the 
end; and 
(B) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(iii) sections 1952(f), 1956(j), and 
1963(n) of title 18, United States Code; 
and’’. 
(2) USE OF AMOUNTS FROM FORFEITURES.— 
Section 524(c)(4)(A) of title 28, United States Code, 
is amended by inserting before ‘‘or the Postmaster 
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General’’ the following: ‘‘or section 1952(f), 1956(j), 
or 1963(n) of title 18,’’. 
SEC. 9. OTHER ACTIONS RELATING TO WILDLIFE TRAF-
FICKING PROGRAMS. 
It is the sense of Congress that the Secretary of State 
should dedicate sufficient program resources to— 
(1) conduct monitoring and evaluation, with a 
special emphasis where feasible on impact evalua-
tions, of wildlife trafficking programs consistent with 
the Department of State’s January 2015 Evaluation 
Policy; 
(2) publish program information on wildlife 
trafficking programs on the Department of State’s 
Internet website, ‘‘ForeignAssistance.gov’’ in a dig-
ital format consistent with the United States com-
mitment to the International Aid Transparency Ini-
tiative (IATI); and 
(3) develop and implement a learning agenda to 
improve the performance and impact of wildlife traf-
ficking programs and to share best practices among 
relevant executive branch agencies. 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE; TABLE OF CONTENTS. 
(a) SHORT TITLE.—This Act may be cited as the 
‘‘Eliminate, Neutralize, and Disrupt Wildlife Trafficking 
Act of 2016’’. 
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(b) TABLE OF CONTENTS.—The table of contents for 
this Act is as follows: 
Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents. 
Sec. 2. Definitions. 
TITLE I—PURPOSES AND POLICY 
Sec. 101. Purposes. 
Sec. 102. Statement of United States policy. 
TITLE II—REPORT ON MAJOR WILDLIFE TRAFFICKING COUNTRIES 
Sec. 201. Report. 
TITLE III—FRAMEWORK FOR INTERAGENCY RESPONSE 
Sec. 301. Presidential Task Force on Wildlife Trafficking. 
TITLE IV—PROGRAMS TO ADDRESS THE ESCALATING WILDLIFE 
TRAFFICKING CRISIS 
Sec. 401. Anti-poaching programs. 
Sec. 402. Anti-trafficking programs. 
Sec. 403. Engagement of United States diplomatic missions. 
Sec. 404. Community conservation. 
TITLE V—TRANSITION OF OVERSEAS CONTINGENCY FUNDING TO 
BASE FUNDING 
Sec. 501. Sense of congress on funding. 
TITLE VI—OTHER ACTIONS RELATING TO WILDLIFE TRAFFICKING 
PROGRAMS 
Sec. 601. Amendments to Fisherman’s Protective Act of 1967. 
SEC. 2. DEFINITIONS. 
In this Act: 
(1) 
APPROPRIATE
CONGRESSIONAL
COMMIT-
TEES.—The term ‘‘appropriate congressional commit-
tees’’ means— 
(A) the Committee on Foreign Relations 
and the Committee on Appropriations of the 
Senate; and 
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(B) the Committee on Foreign Affairs and 
the Committee on Appropriations of the House of 
Representatives. 
(2) CO-CHAIRS OF THE TASK FORCE.—The term 
‘‘Co-Chairs of the Task Force’’ means the Secretary of 
State, the Secretary of the Interior, and the Attorney 
General, as established pursuant to Executive Order 
13648. 
(3) COMMUNITY
CONSERVATION
.—The term 
‘‘community conservation’’ means an approach to 
conservation that recognizes the rights of local people 
to sustainably manage, or benefit directly and indi-
rectly from wildlife and other natural resources and 
includes— 
(A) devolving management and governance 
to local communities to create positive conditions 
for sustainable resource use; and 
(B) building the capacity of communities 
for conservation and natural resource manage-
ment. 
(4) COUNTRY OF CONCERN.—The term ‘‘country 
of concern’’ refers to a foreign country specially des-
ignated by the Secretary of State pursuant to sub-
section (b) of section 201 as a major source of wildlife 
trafficking products or their derivatives, a major 
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transit point of wildlife trafficking products or their 
derivatives, or a major consumer of wildlife traf-
ficking products, in which the government has ac-
tively engaged in or knowingly profited from the traf-
ficking of endangered or threatened species. 
(5) FOCUS COUNTRY.—The term ‘‘focus country’’ 
refers to a foreign country determined by the Sec-
retary of State to be a major source of wildlife traf-
ficking products or their derivatives, a major transit 
point of wildlife trafficking products or their deriva-
tives, or a major consumer of wildlife trafficking 
products. 
(6) DEFENSE ARTICLE; DEFENSE SERVICE; SIG-
NIFICANT
MILITARY
EQUIPMENT; 
TRAINING.—The 
terms ‘‘defense article’’, ‘‘defense service’’, ‘‘significant 
military equipment’’, and ‘‘training’’ have the mean-
ings given such terms in section 47 of the Arms Ex-
port Control Act (22 U.S.C. 2794). 
(7) IMPLEMENTATION PLAN.—The term ‘‘Imple-
mentation Plan’’ means the Implementation Plan for 
the National Strategy for Combating Wildlife Traf-
ficking released on February 11, 2015, a modification 
of that plan, or a successor plan. 
(8) NATIONAL STRATEGY.—The term ‘‘National 
Strategy’’ means the National Strategy for Combating 
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