Amends the Wild Free-Roaming Horses and Burros Act of 1971 to provide for management of horse and burro lands and their habitat in accordance with resource management objectives for the area developed in land use planning.
Requires regulatory establishment of adoption fees that both discourage adoption for commercial gain and allow a viable adoption program.
Authorizes the limited Federal sale of a certain number of animals for FY 1984-1987.
Provides for the the granting, without cost, of title to unadoptable excess horses and burros to qualified animal protection entities prior to sale.
Permits the appointment of Federal or State employees to the joint advisory board.
Changes from "willful" to "knowing" the state of mind standard for criminal offenses with respect to wild free-roaming horses and burros. Increases penalties for second offenses.
Authorizes use of helicopters and motor vehicles in the removal of the animals from land under the administration of other Federal Agencies.
Requires annual (currently, biennial) joint reports to certain congressional committees by the Secretaries of Agriculture and of the Interior on the administration of this Act.
Favorable Executive Comment Received From Interior.
Introduced in Senate
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources requested executive comment from Interior Department, Agriculture Department, OMB.
Subcommittee on Public Lands and Reserved Water. Hearings held at Rock Springs, Wyoming.
Subcommittee on Public Lands and Reserved Water. Hearings concluded. Hearings printed: S.Hrg. 98-196.
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources received executive comment from Interior Department. Favorable.
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources received executive comment from OMB. Favorable.
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Committee consideration and Mark Up Session held.
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Committee consideration and Mark Up Session held.
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Reported to Senate by Senator McClure with an amendment in the nature of a substitute and an amendment to the title. With written report No. 98-339.
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Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Reported to Senate by Senator McClure with an amendment in the nature of a substitute and an amendment to the title. With written report No. 98-339.
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 622.