Title: A bill to ensure that the Secretary of the Interior collaborates fully with State and local authorities and certain nonprofit entities in managing the Corolla Wild Horse population on Federal land.
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources

Summary:
This bill instructs the Department of the Interior to allow for the introduction of a small number of free-roaming wild horses from the Cape Lookout National Seashore in North Carolina as necessary to ensure the genetic diversity of the wild horse population in and around Currituck National Wildlife Refuge, consistent with the December 2014 Wild Horse Management Agreement.
Interior may enter into an agreement with the Corolla Wild Horse Fund to provide for the cost-effective management of the horses in and around the refuge while ensuring that its natural resources are not adversely impacted. Such agreement shall require the fund to pay the costs associated with:

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 248 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 248

 To ensure that the Secretary of the Interior collaborates fully with 
State and local authorities and certain nonprofit entities in managing 
           the Corolla Wild Horse population on Federal land.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            January 28, 2019

  Mr. Tillis introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
       referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works

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                                 A BILL


 
 To ensure that the Secretary of the Interior collaborates fully with 
State and local authorities and certain nonprofit entities in managing 
           the Corolla Wild Horse population on Federal land.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. WILD HORSES IN AND AROUND THE CURRITUCK NATIONAL WILDLIFE 
              REFUGE.

    (a) Genetic Diversity.--The Secretary of the Interior (referred to 
in this section as the ``Secretary''), in consultation with the North 
Carolina Department of Environment and Natural Resources, Currituck 
County, North Carolina, and the Corolla Wild Horse Fund, shall allow 
for the introduction of a small number of free-roaming wild horses from 
the Cape Lookout National Seashore as necessary to ensure the genetic 
diversity of the wild horse population in and around the Currituck 
National Wildlife Refuge, consistent with--
            (1) the laws (including regulations) applicable to the 
        Currituck National Wildlife Refuge and the Cape Lookout 
        National Seashore; and
            (2) the December 2014 Wild Horse Management Agreement 
        approved by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service, the 
        North Carolina Department of Environment and Natural Resources, 
        Currituck County, North Carolina, and the Corolla Wild Horse 
        Fund.
    (b) Agreement.--
            (1) In general.--The Secretary may enter into an agreement 
        with the Corolla Wild Horse Fund to provide for the cost-
        effective management of the horses in and around the Currituck 
        National Wildlife Refuge while ensuring that natural resources 
        within the Currituck National Wildlife Refuge are not adversely 
        impacted.
            (2) Requirements.--The agreement entered into under 
        paragraph (1) shall specify that the Corolla Wild Horse Fund 
        shall pay the costs associated with, with respect to the horses 
        in and around the Currituck National Wildlife Refuge--
                    (A) coordinating and conducting a periodic census, 
                and inspecting the health, of the horses;
                    (B) maintaining records of the horses living in the 
                wild and in confinement;
                    (C) coordinating and conducting the removal and 
                placement of horses and monitoring of any horses 
                removed from the Currituck County Outer Banks; and
                    (D) administering a viable population control plan 
                for the horses, including auctions, adoptions, 
                contraceptive fertility methods, and other viable 
                options.
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