A bill to direct the Secretary of the Interior to establish a bison management plan for Grand Canyon National Park.
(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary has been expanded because action occurred on the measure.)
Grand Canyon Bison Management Act
(Sec. 3) This bill directs the Department of the Interior to publish a management plan to reduce, through humane lethal culling by skilled public volunteers and other nonlethal means, the population of bison in the Grand Canyon National Park in Arizona that Interior determines are detrimental to the uses of the Park.
Such a volunteer may remove a full bison harvested from the Park.
Interior shall coordinate with the Arizona Game and Fish Commission regarding the development and implementation of the management plan.
In developing such plan, Interior must comply with all applicable federal environmental laws, including the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969.
Referred to the Subcommittee on Federal Lands.
Introduced in Senate
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works discharged by Unanimous Consent.(consideration: CR S2319)
Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works discharged by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S2319)
Referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Senate Subcommittee on National Parks. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 114-338.
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Reported by Senator Murkowski without amendment. With written report No. 114-184. Additional and Minority views filed.
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Reported by Senator Murkowski without amendment. With written report No. 114-184. Additional and Minority views filed.
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 329.
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