Wolf Livestock Loss Prevention and Mitigation Act

Bill: 110-s-2875
Sponsor: Sen. Tester, Jon [D-MT]
Introduced: 2008-04-16 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Animals
Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to Indians
Grants-in-aid
Idaho
Livestock
Minorities
Montana
Wolves
Wyoming

Summary:
action_date: 2008-04-16
text: 
Gray Wolf Livestock Loss Mitigation Act of 2008 - Authorizes the Secretary to the Interior, acting through the Director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, to provide grants to states and Indian tribes to pay the federal share of carrying out programs to compensate livestock producers for activities undertaken to reduce the risk of livestock loss as a result of a predatory species. 

Directs the Secretary to designate the states of Montana, Wyoming, and Idaho, and such other states and Indian tribes as the Secretary determines from among states and tribes as having populations of predatory species, as eligible to receive such grants. 

Limits the federal share of the cost of carrying out such a compensation program to half of its total annual cost. 

action_date: 2008-09-16
text: 
Gray Wolf Livestock Loss Prevention and Mitigation Act of 2008 - Authorizes the Secretary to the Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture to establish a five-year demonstration program to provide grants to states and Indian tribes to assist livestock producers, with respect to activities and losses that may occur on federal, state, private, or Indian land, to undertake proactive, nonlethal, activities to reduce the risk of livestock loss as a result of predation by wolves. 
 
Requires the Secretaries to establish criteria and requirements to implement the demonstration program and when promulgating regulations for the implementation of such program, to consult with states that have implemented state programs that provide assistance to livestock producers. 
 
Sets forth requirements states and Indian tribes shall meet to be eligible to receive a grant. 
 
Prescribes criteria for the allocation of funding.
 

 
Limits the federal share of the cost of any activity provided assistance under this Act to half of the total cost of that activity. 

Authorizes appropriations. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-09-16
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 989.
action_date: 2008-09-16
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Reported by Senator Bingaman with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. Without written report.
action_date: 2008-09-16
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Reported by Senator Bingaman with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. Without written report.
action_date: 2008-09-11
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.
action_date: 2008-07-09
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Public Lands and Forests. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 110-572.
action_date: 2008-04-16
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2008-04-16
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S3082)
action_date: 2008-04-16
text: Introduced in Senate