Summary

Authorizes livestock producers and their employees to capture, kill, disperse, or remove black vultures that are causing or are reasonably believed will cause death, injury, or destruction to livestock, despite the Migratory Bird Treaty Act, but prohibits the use of poison. Requires people who take black vultures under this authority to file an annual report with the appropriate U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Regional Office on a Director-developed form; reports are due by January 31 for takes in the prior 12 months, but no reporting duty arises until the Service posts the form. The Director must create and post the form within 180 days of enactment and may not make the form more burdensome than comparable MBTA permitted-take forms in effect at enactment.

• Permits livestock producers and their employees to take black vultures that threaten livestock, even if MBTA would otherwise prohibit it.
• Specifically allows capture, killing, dispersal, or transport of carcasses, but bans the use of poison.
• Requires annual reporting of takes to the appropriate U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Regional Office using a Director-developed form.
• Reporting is due January 31 each year and covers takes in the prior 12 months, but only after the Service posts the required form.
• The Director must develop and post the reporting form within 180 days of enactment and cannot make the form more onerous than comparable MBTA forms.
• No change to other MBTA provisions beyond this narrowly defined exception for black vultures affecting livestock.
• Creates a new compliance and recordkeeping duty for covered individuals once the form is available.
• Places a short, specific timeline requirement on the Fish and Wildlife Service to implement the reporting mechanism.