Bill Details
Status
Latest action
2025-01-31 - Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
Introduced Date
2025-01-31
Policy Area
Environmental Protection
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This bill would отменить, or make invalid, a recent U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service rule that added federal protections for several freshwater mussel species. In plain terms, it would stop the government’s final decision from taking effect, meaning the listed species would not get the endangered or threatened status, critical habitat designations, or related protections covered by that rule.
- The bill targets a final rule published on June 4, 2024, by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
- The rule at issue covers several mussels, including the Guadalupe fatmucket, Texas fatmucket, Guadalupe orb, Texas pimpleback, Balcones spike, false spike, and Texas fawnsfoot.
- Under this bill, that rule would have “no force or effect,” so it would not apply if the bill became law.
- The bill was introduced in the House and referred to the Committee on Natural Resources.
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[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 840 Introduced in House (IH)]
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119th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. R. 840
To provide that the final rule of the United States Fish and Wildlife
Service titled ``Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants;
Endangered Species Status With Critical Habitat for Guadalupe
Fatmucket, Texas Fatmucket, Guadalupe Orb, Texas Pimpleback, Balcones
Spike, and False Spike, and Threatened Species Status With Section 4(d)
Rule and Critical Habitat for Texas Fawnsfoot'' shall have no force or
effect.
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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
January 31, 2025
Mr. Arrington (for himself and Mr. Pfluger) introduced the following
bill; which was referred to the Committee on Natural Resources
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A BILL
To provide that the final rule of the United States Fish and Wildlife
Service titled ``Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants;
Endangered Species Status With Critical Habitat for Guadalupe
Fatmucket, Texas Fatmucket, Guadalupe Orb, Texas Pimpleback, Balcones
Spike, and False Spike, and Threatened Species Status With Section 4(d)
Rule and Critical Habitat for Texas Fawnsfoot'' shall have no force or
effect.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. RULE RELATING TO ENDANGERED SPECIES AND THREATENED SPECIES
STATUS OF CERTAIN SPECIES OF MUSSELS.
The final rule issued by the United States Fish and Wildlife
Service titled ``Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants;
Endangered Species Status With Critical Habitat for Guadalupe
Fatmucket, Texas Fatmucket, Guadalupe Orb, Texas Pimpleback, Balcones
Spike, and False Spike, and Threatened Species Status With Section 4(d)
Rule and Critical Habitat for Texas Fawnsfoot'' (89 Fed. Reg. 48034;
published June 4, 2024) shall have no force or effect.
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