Summary

Allows livestock producers and their employees to capture, kill, disperse, or transport black vultures that are causing, or are reasonably believed will cause, death, injury, or destruction to livestock, notwithstanding the Migratory Bird Treaty Act. It bars use of poison and requires an annual report of takings to the appropriate U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) Regional Office once the USFWS makes a reporting form available. The USFWS Director must develop and post the required reporting form within 180 days of enactment, and the form cannot be more burdensome than comparable MBTA permitted-take forms; reporting (by January 31 for the prior 12 months) is required only after the form is posted.

• Permits livestock producers and their employees to take black vultures when they harm or threaten livestock, overriding the MBTA for that purpose.
• Allowed actions include capture, killing, dispersal, and transporting carcasses; poison is explicitly banned.
• Requires annual reporting of takings to the appropriate USFWS Regional Office, but only after the USFWS posts a required reporting form.
• USFWS Director must create and post the reporting form within 180 days of enactment and keep it no more burdensome than similar MBTA forms.
• The measure applies only to black vultures and to situations involving actual or reasonably likely harm to livestock.
• No new appropriations or funding sources are specified in the text.
• Creates a narrow statutory exception to the MBTA rather than broad changes to wildlife protections.
• Reporting imposes a recordkeeping duty on covered persons but only after the agency provides the form.