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‘‘(3) A State shall not be eligible for financial assist-
ance under this section for a fiscal year unless the State 
has provided to the Secretary for the preceding fiscal year 
information regarding the expenditures referred to in sec-
tion 16(b)(2).’’. 
SEC. 16. REIMBURSEMENT FOR DEPREDATION OF LIVE-
STOCK BY REINTRODUCED SPECIES. 
The Endangered Species Act of 1973 is further 
amended— 
(1) by striking sections 15 and 16; 
(2) by redesignating sections 17 and 18 as sec-
tions 15 and 16, respectively; and 
(3) by adding after section 16, as so redesig-
nated, the following: 
‘‘REIMBURSEMENT FOR DEPREDATION OF LIVESTOCK BY 
REINTRODUCED SPECIES 
‘‘SEC. 17. (a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary of the 
Interior, acting through the Director of the United States 
Fish and Wildlife Service, may reimburse the owner of 
livestock for any loss of livestock resulting from depreda-
tion by any population of a species if the population is 
listed under section 4(c) and includes or derives from 
members of the species that were reintroduced into the 
wild. 
‘‘(b) ELIGIBILITY FOR AND AMOUNT.—Eligibility for, 
and the amount of, reimbursement under this section shall
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not be conditioned on the presentation of the body of any 
animal for which reimbursement is sought. 
‘‘(c) LIMITATION ON REQUIREMENT TO PRESENT 
BODY.—The Secretary may not require the owner of live-
stock to present the body of individual livestock as a condi-
tion of payment of reimbursement under this section. 
‘‘(d) AUTHORIZATION
OF APPROPRIATIONS.—Pay-
ments under this section are subject to appropriations.’’. 
SEC. 17. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS. 
(a) AUTHORIZATION.—The Endangered Species Act 
of 1973 is further amended by adding at the end the fol-
lowing: 
‘‘AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS 
‘‘SEC. 18. (a) IN GENERAL.—There are authorized 
to be appropriated to carry out this Act, other than section 
8A(e)— 
‘‘(1) to the Secretary of the Interior to carry 
out functions and responsibilities of the Department 
of the Interior under this Act, such sums as are nec-
essary for fiscal years 2006 through 2010; and 
‘‘(2) to the Secretary of Agriculture to carry 
out functions and responsibilities of the Department 
of the Interior with respect to the enforcement of 
this Act and the convention which pertain the impor-
tation of plants, such sums as are necessary for fis-
cal year 2006 through 2010.
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‘‘(b) CONVENTION IMPLEMENTATION.—There is au-
thorized to be appropriated to the Secretary of the Interior 
to carry out section 8A(e) such sums as are necessary for 
fiscal years 2006 through 2010.’’. 
(b) CONFORMING AMENDMENT.—Section 8(a) (16 
U.S.C. 1537(a)) is amended by striking ‘‘section 15’’ and 
inserting ‘‘section 18’’. 
SEC. 18. MISCELLANEOUS TECHNICAL CORRECTIONS. 
(a) INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION.—Section 8 (16 
U.S.C. 1537) is amended— 
(1) in subsection (a) in the first sentence by 
striking ‘‘any endangered species or threatened spe-
cies listed’’ and inserting ‘‘any species determined to 
be an endangered species or a threatened species’’; 
and 
(2) in subsection (b) in paragraph (1), by strik-
ing ‘‘endangered species and threatened species list-
ed’’ and inserting ‘‘species determined to be endan-
gered species and threatened species’’. 
(b) MANAGEMENT AUTHORITY AND SCIENTIFIC AU-
THORITY.—Section 8A (16 U.S.C. 1537a)) is amended— 
(1) in subsection (a), by striking ‘‘of the Inte-
rior (hereinafter in this section referred to as the 
‘Secretary’)’’;