HR 2504 · 115th Congress · Environmental Protection
To ensure fair treatment in licensing requirements for the export of certain echinoderms.
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EnactedLatest: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.(2018-02-06)
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This bill: (1) exempts exporters of sea urchins and sea cucumbers that are designated as food for humans or animals or taken for recreational purposes from licensing requirements; and (2) requires the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to amend regulations concerning transporting wildlife to clarify that those sea urchins and sea cucumbers are fishery products exempt from the export permission requirements under the Endangered Species Act of 1973. Thus, those exporters will be exempted from: (1) inspections to ensure shipments of those fishery products do not contain endangered or threatened species, and (2) related inspection fees.…
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CBO Cost Estimate
Congressional Budget OfficeH.R. 2504, a bill to ensure fair treatment in licensing requirements for the export of certain echinoderms
Dec 1, 2017As ordered reported by the House Committee on Natural Resources on November 8, 2017
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