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119TH CONGRESS REPORT
1st Session HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 119-285
CORMORANT RELIEF ACT OF 2025
SEPTEMBER 15, 2025.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the
State of the Union and ordered to be printed
Mr. WESTERMAN, from the Committee on Natural Resources,
submitted the following
REPORT
[To accompany H.R. 2293]
The Committee on Natural Resources, to whom was referred the
bill (H.R. 2293) to require the Secretary of the Interior to reissue
certain regulations relating to the taking of double-crested cor-
morants at aquaculture facilities, having considered the same, re-
ports favorably thereon with an amendment and recommends that
the bill as amended do pass.
The amendment is as follows:
Strike all after the enacting clause and insert the following:
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the Cormorant Relief Act of 2025.
SEC. 2. REGULATIONS RELATING TO TAKING OF DOUBLE-CRESTED CORMORANTS AT AQUA-
CULTURE FACILITIES.
(a) IN GENERAL.-The Secretary shall reissue the original depredation order in ac-
cordance with subsection (b).
(b) REQUIREMENTS.-The depredation order reissued under subsection (a) shall be
the same as the original depredation order, except that the depredation order re-
issued under subsection (a) shall-
(1) apply to-
(A) each of the States of California, Colorado, Connecticut, Illinois, Indi-
ana, Iowa, Michigan, Missouri, New Jersey, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Wis-
consin and any other State or territory of the United States the Secretary
determines appropriate in addition to and in the same manner as each of
the States to which the original depredation order applied; and
(B) lake managers and pond managers in addition to and in the same
manner as each of the entities to which the original depredation order ap-
plied;
(2) incorporate modern terminology;
(3) simplify the provisions contained in the original depredation order related
to compliance with other Federal law;
(4) modernize the recordkeeping requirements contained in the original depre-
dation order; and
(5) remove the June 30, 2014, expiration date contained in the original depre-
dation order.
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