Sponsor
Lauren Boebert
Representative · R-CO
Representative · R-CO
The bill quickly returns wolf-management authority and regulatory certainty to states and rural stakeholders, but does so at the cost of federal conservation protections, reduced scientific and public review, and removal of judicial oversight — increasing risks to wolf populations and potential economic harms for affected communities.
State wildlife agencies and rural communities regain authority to manage gray wolf populations under the 2020 delisting rule within 60 days, restoring local control over wolf management.
Landowners and hunters face fewer federal regulatory constraints where state management applies, reducing federal oversight on private land use and hunting of wolves.
All Americans lose the ability to challenge the reissued final rule in court, removing a judicial check on that rule and limiting legal recourse.
If the rule causes economic or health/safety harms, affected individuals and businesses (including small businesses and low-income people) cannot seek relief through courts, potentially leaving harms unaddressed and increasing uncompensated losses.
Wildlife watchers, conservation groups, and communities that value wolf recovery lose federal endangered species protections for gray wolves, increasing the risk of population declines and reduced conservation oversight.
Based on analysis of 3 sections of legislative text.
Requires reissuance within 60 days of the 2020 rule removing the gray wolf from the ESA list and bans judicial review of that reissuance.
Official title: To require the Secretary of the Interior to reissue regulations removing the gray wolf from the list of endangered and threatened wildlife under the Endangered Species Act of 1973.
Introduced January 3, 2025 by Lauren Boebert · Last progress January 3, 2025
Directs the Interior Department to reissue the November 3, 2020 final rule that removed the gray wolf from the federal list of endangered and threatened species, and bars courts from reviewing that reissued rule. The agency must complete the reissuance within 60 days of the law taking effect, and the statute prevents judicial challenge to that administrative action.