Official Summaries

This joint resolution nullifies the rule issued by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service titled Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants; Endangered Species Status for the San Francisco Bay-Delta Distinct Population Segment of the Longfin Smelt and published on July 30, 2024. The rule lists the San Francisco Bay-Delta distinct population segment of longfin smelt, a fish species of the Pacific Coast, as an endangered species. Thus, the joint resolution removes protection for the species under the Endangered Species Act of 1973.

Current Full Text

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.J. Res. 78 Engrossed in House (EH)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
H. J. RES. 78

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                            JOINT RESOLUTION


 
  Providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, 
United States Code, of the rule submitted by the United States Fish and 
 Wildlife Service relating to ``Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and 
   Plants; Endangered Species Status for the San Francisco Bay-Delta 
          Distinct Population Segment of the Longfin Smelt''.

    Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United 
States of America in Congress assembled, That Congress disapproves the 
rule submitted by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service relating 
to ``Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants; Endangered Species 
Status for the San Francisco Bay-Delta Distinct Population Segment of 
the Longfin Smelt'' (89 Fed. Reg. 61029; published July 30, 2024), and 
such rule shall have no force or effect.

            Passed the House of Representatives May 1, 2025.

            Attest:

                                                                 Clerk.
119th CONGRESS

  1st Session

                             H. J. RES. 78

_______________________________________________________________________

                            JOINT RESOLUTION

  Providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, 
United States Code, of the rule submitted by the United States Fish and 
 Wildlife Service relating to ``Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and 
   Plants; Endangered Species Status for the San Francisco Bay-Delta 
          Distinct Population Segment of the Longfin Smelt''.