[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 171 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 171

   To remove the lesser prairie-chicken from the lists of threatened 
  species and endangered species published pursuant to the Endangered 
 Species Act of 1973, to amend that Act to exclude the lesser prairie-
    chicken from the authority of that Act, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            January 21, 2025

  Mr. Marshall (for himself, Mr. Lankford, Mr. Mullin, and Mr. Moran) 
introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the 
               Committee on Environment and Public Works

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                                 A BILL


 
   To remove the lesser prairie-chicken from the lists of threatened 
  species and endangered species published pursuant to the Endangered 
 Species Act of 1973, to amend that Act to exclude the lesser prairie-
    chicken from the authority of that Act, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. DELISTING OF LESSER PRAIRIE-CHICKEN.

    (a) In General.--Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the 
lesser prairie-chicken (Tympanuchus pallidicinctus), including each 
distinct population segment of the lesser prairie-chicken (Tympanuchus 
pallidicinctus), is removed from the lists of threatened species and 
endangered species that are published pursuant to the Endangered 
Species Act of 1973 (16 U.S.C. 1531 et seq.).
    (b) Exclusion of Lesser Prairie-Chicken From Listing.--Section 4(a) 
of the Endangered Species Act of 1973 (16 U.S.C. 1533(a)) is amended--
            (1) in paragraph (1), in the matter preceding subparagraph 
        (A), by striking ``The Secretary shall'' and inserting ``Except 
        as provided in paragraph (4), the Secretary shall''; and
            (2) by adding at the end the following:
    ``(4) Applicability to Lesser Prairie-chicken.--The Secretary may 
not make a determination under this subsection that the lesser prairie-
chicken (Tympanuchus pallidicinctus) is an endangered species or a 
threatened species.''.
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