[AGA-Member] RE: HR669 information

[Someone on the Forum <aga-forums@thekrib.com>]

For those who wish to actually read the bill, you can find it here.

http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c111:h669:

The bill establishes a risk assessment process for ranking the invasive potential of species imported into the US and their potential threat to native species. 

Within 2 years of passage of the bill, the Secretary of the Interior shall publish a list of species legal to import and a list of prohibited species. (The list of prohibited species will most likely be the existing Federal list of invasive species. Many States also currently have a list of invasive species illegal in their State that is more restrictive than the Federal list.) 

You will have to obtain a permit to import a species into the US.

Prohibitions- Unless you have obtained a permit, it is unlawful for any person subject to the jurisdiction of the United States to-- 

(1) import into or export from the United States any nonnative wildlife species that is not included in the list of approved species issued; 

(2) transport between any State by any means whatsoever any nonnative wildlife species that is not included in the list of approved species; 

(3) violate any term or condition of a permit issued; 

(4) possess (except as provided in section 3(f)), sell or offer to sell, purchase or offer to purchase, or barter for or offer to barter for, any nonnative wildlife species that is prohibited from being imported under paragraph (1); 

(5) release into the wild any nonnative wildlife species that is prohibited from being imported under paragraph (1); or 

(6) breed any nonnative wildlife species that is prohibited from being imported under paragraph (1), or provide any such species to another person for breeding purposes. 

There will be a fee to conduct the risk assessment for any species added to the permitted list. 

There will be a fee to conduct the risk assessment for any species added to the prohibited list. 

More than likely, every importer, exporter, large pet shop, and collector in the country will obtain a permit and the approved list will be so broad we won't notice any change. 

Cheers. 
Jim

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Read this topic online here:

http://forum.aquatic-gardeners.org/viewtopic.php?p=6103#6103

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