Animal Damage Control Act of 1981 - Directs the Secretary of the Interior, in cooperation with the Secretary of Agriculture, to carry out a program for controlling livestock predators. Requires the Secretary, in conducting such program, to: (1) use and permit the use of lethal and nonlethal methods and chemical toxicants; (2) undertake research activities concerning chemical toxicants and other nonlethal control techniques; (3) use preventive control techniques to manage predator populations; and (4) establish an ad hoc committee to review biennially the Secretary's animal damage control activities.
Directs the Secretaries to submit annually a joint report on the development and implementation of such program to Congress.
Authorizes appropriations.
Introduced in House
Introduced in House
Referred to House Committee on Agriculture.
Referred to Subcommittee on Department Operations, Research, and Foreign Agriculture.
Executive Comment Requested from EPA, Interior, USDA.
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