To implement the Agreement on the Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels, and for other purposes.
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Summary
What This Bill Does
The bill establishes comprehensive definitions for implementing the Albatross and Petrel Conservation Act, including key terms like "covered albatrosses and petrels," "take," "disturb," "range," and designates the Secretary, authorizes the Secretary of Interior to carry out activities to reestablish albatrosses and petrels within their range, using best available scientific information, and authorizes federal agencies to prevent, eradicate, or control invasive species that adversely affect albatrosses and petrels, including research, management plans, and public outreach. It relies on compliance mandates, appropriations, reporting requirements, and exemptions. The main policy areas are Wildlife Conservation, Environment, Agriculture, and International Agreements.
Who Benefits and How
Albatrosses and petrels would be affected, U.S. Coast Guard could face lower compliance burdens, and Department of Defense could face lower compliance burdens.
Who Bears the Burden and How
Fish and Wildlife Service would take on compliance duties, NOAA Fisheries would take on compliance duties, and Violators of the Act could face increased risk.
Key Provisions
- Establishes comprehensive definitions for implementing the Albatross and Petrel Conservation Act, including key terms like "covered albatrosses and petrels," "take," "disturb," "range," and designates the Secretary...
- Authorizes the Secretary of Interior to carry out activities to reestablish albatrosses and petrels within their range, using best available scientific information.
- Authorizes federal agencies to prevent, eradicate, or control invasive species that adversely affect albatrosses and petrels, including research, management plans, and public outreach.
- Authorizes the Secretary to use existing wildlife protection authorities to conserve and restore breeding sites, and authorizes both Secretaries to develop habitat management plans for terrestrial and marine habitats.
- Authorizes research on pollution and marine debris impacts, regulatory measures to prevent take and disturbance, and bycatch mitigation measures for commercial fisheries including onboard observer programs.
Evidence Chain:
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At a Glance
What This Bill Does
The bill establishes comprehensive definitions for implementing the Albatross and Petrel Conservation Act, including key terms like "covered albatrosses and petrels," "take," "disturb," "range," and designates the Secretary, authorizes the Secretary of Interior to carry out activities to reestablish albatrosses and petrels within their range, using best available scientific information, and authorizes federal agencies to prevent, eradicate, or control invasive species that adversely affect albatrosses and petrels, including research, management plans, and public outreach.
Key Policy Areas
Wildlife Conservation, Environment, Agriculture, International Agreements
Primary Purpose
The bill establishes comprehensive definitions for implementing the Albatross and Petrel Conservation Act, including key terms like "covered albatrosses and petrels," "take," "disturb," "range," and designates the Secretary, authorizes the Secretary of Interior to carry out activities to reestablish albatrosses and petrels within their range, using best available scientific information, and authorizes federal agencies to prevent, eradicate, or control invasive species that adversely affect albatrosses and petrels, including research, management plans, and public outreach.
Policy Domains
Title I - Conservation Measures
Identified Gains
- Albatrosses and petrels
- U.S. Coast Guard
- Department of Defense
- Commercial fishing vessels with bycatch mitigation
- Federal and state enforcement officers
Identified Costs
- Fish and Wildlife Service
- NOAA Fisheries
- Violators of the Act
- Persons who take or harm seabirds
- Commercial fishing operations
Sponsors
Legislative Progress
IntroducedMr. Huffman (for himself and Mr. Fitzpatrick) introduced the following …
Stakeholder Effects
cui bono?How this legislation distributes effects. Mention counts reflect frequency, not effect magnitude.
Coast Guard, Congress, Department of Defense
Coast Guard faces effects in multiple directions
Positive-direction: Congress, Department of Defense, Federal and state enforcement officers
Negative-direction: Department of the Interior, Federal wildlife agencies, Fish and Wildlife Service, NOAA Fisheries, NOAA enforcement, State Department
Commercial fishers releasing entangled birds, Commercial fishing operations, Commercial fishing vessel operators
Positive-direction: Commercial fishers releasing entangled birds, Commercial fishing vessels with bycatch mitigation
Negative-direction: Commercial fishing operations, Commercial fishing vessel operators, Commercial fishing vessels, Longline fishing vessels
Fisheries observer programs, International conservation organizations, Seabird conservation organizations
Persons who take or harm seabirds, U.S. nationals abroad, Violators of the Act
Agreement Secretariat, International Agreement Secretariat
Foreign governments with albatross populations
Bill Structure & Actor Mappings
Who is "The Secretary" in each section?
- "the_secretary"
- → Secretary of the Interior
- "secretary_of_commerce"
- → Secretary of Commerce (NOAA)
- "the_secretary"
- → Secretary of the Interior
- "secretary_of_commerce"
- → Secretary of Commerce (NOAA)
- "the_secretary"
- → Secretary of the Interior
- "coast_guard_secretary"
- → Secretary of the department in which the Coast Guard is operating
- "secretary_of_commerce"
- → Secretary of Commerce (NOAA)
- "the_secretary"
- → Secretary of the Interior
- "secretary_of_commerce"
- → Secretary of Commerce (NOAA)
- "the_secretary"
- → Secretary of the Interior
- "secretary_of_state"
- → Secretary of State
- "secretary_of_commerce"
- → Secretary of Commerce (NOAA)
- "the_secretary"
- → Secretary of the Interior
- "secretary_of_commerce"
- → Secretary of Commerce (NOAA)
Key Definitions
Terms defined in this bill
Any species, subspecies, population, or individual within the taxonomic order Procellariiformes that is listed under Annex I of the Agreement, whether dead or alive, including any part, egg, derivative nest, or product.
To harmfully interfere with, harass, pursue, hunt, shoot, wound, kill, trap, capture, destroy, possess, or collect.
All land or water that any covered albatrosses and petrels inhabit, stay in temporarily, cross, or over-fly, at any time during migration, breeding, feeding, or aggregating; and any other areas determined by the Secretary or Secretary of Commerce.
Any act that interferes with the natural behavioral patterns of covered albatrosses and petrels (migration, brooding, nesting, breeding, feeding, sheltering) to a point at which such patterns are abandoned or significantly altered.
The Secretary of the Interior.
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