Title: Manage our Wolves Act
Policy area: Animals

Summary:
Manage our Wolves Act
This bill addresses the protection of the gray wolf (Canis lupus) under the Endangered Species Act of 1973. Specifically, the Department of the Interior must issue a rule to remove the gray wolf in the contiguous 48 states from the list of endangered or threatened species and reinstate a rule that removed the gray wolf in the Western Great Lakes region from the list. The bill exempts those rules from judicial review as well as a rule that removed the gray wolf in Wyoming from the list.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6784 Introduced in House (IH)]

<DOC>






115th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 6784

  To provide for removal of the gray wolf in the contiguous 48 States 
from the List of Endangered and Threatened Wildlife published under the 
                    Endangered Species Act of 1973.


_______________________________________________________________________


                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 12, 2018

 Mr. Duffy (for himself, Mr. Newhouse, Mrs. McMorris Rodgers, and Mr. 
  Peterson) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                     Committee on Natural Resources

_______________________________________________________________________

                                 A BILL


 
  To provide for removal of the gray wolf in the contiguous 48 States 
from the List of Endangered and Threatened Wildlife published under the 
                    Endangered Species Act of 1973.

    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 ``Manage our Wolves Act''.

SEC. 2. REMOVAL OF FEDERAL PROTECTIONS FOR GRAY WOLVES IN WYOMING AND 
              WESTERN GREAT LAKES.

    (a) Gray Wolves in Wyoming.--The final rule published on September 
10, 2012 (77 Fed. Reg. 55530), that was reinstated on March 3, 2017, by 
the decision of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia 
(No. 14-5300) and further republished on May 1, 2017 (82 Fed. Reg. 
20284), that reinstates the removal of Federal protections for the gray 
wolf in Wyoming under the Endangered Species Act of 1973 (16 U.S.C. 
1531 et seq.), and this subsection, shall not be subject to judicial 
review.
    (b) Gray Wolves in Western Great Lakes.--Before the end of the 60-
day period beginning on the date of enactment of this Act, the 
Secretary of the Interior shall reissue the final rule published on 
December 28, 2011 (76 Fed. Reg. 81666), without regard to any other 
provision of statute or regulation that applies to issuance of such 
rule. Such reissuance (including this subsection) shall not be subject 
to judicial review.

SEC. 3. REMOVAL OF FEDERAL PROTECTIONS FOR GRAY WOLVES RANGE-WIDE.

    (a) In General.--Not later than the end of fiscal year 2019, and 
except as provided in subsection (b), the Secretary of the Interior 
shall issue a rule to remove the gray wolf (Canis lupus) in each of the 
48 contiguous States of the United States and the District of Columbia 
from the List of Endangered and Threatened Wildlife in section 17.11 of 
title 50, Code of Federal Regulations, without regard to any other 
provision of statute or regulation that applies to issuance of such 
rule.
    (b) Limitation on Judicial Review.--Such issuance (including this 
section)--
            (1) shall not be subject to judicial review; and
            (2) shall not affect the inclusion of the subspecies 
        classified as the Mexican gray wolf (Canis lupus baileyi) of 
        the species gray wolf (Canis lupus) in such list.
                                 <all>