Bill > HR6251

This bill amends the Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972 to create specific provisions allowing hunters to import polar bear trophies from sport hunts in Canada under two distinct circumstances. First, hunters who legally harvested a polar bear before February 18, 1997, can obtain an importation permit from the Secretary of the Interior. Second, hunters who legally harvested a polar bear before May 15, 2008, from specific polar bear populations that previously allowed sport-hunted trophy imports, can also obtain an importation permit. In both cases, the Secretary of the Interior is required to issue these permits expeditiously and without regard to certain existing regulatory restrictions that would normally prohibit such imports. The bill specifically allows the importation of polar bear parts, excluding internal organs, and represents an exception to previous regulations that restricted the importation of polar bear trophies due to the species' threatened status under the Endangered Species Act of 1973.

Agriculture and Natural Resources

https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/6251/all-info