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H.R.465 To reauthorize the Asian Elephant Conservation Act of 1997.

Within the Asian Elephant Conservation Act of 1997 is the Multinational Species Conservation Fund. This bill authorizes appropriations to that Fund.

The US Fish and Wildlife Service uses the Fund to help finance research and conservation programs overseas. In this case helping to protect the Asian elephant from extinction.

Sponsor:  Rep. Jim Saxton (R-NJ-3^rd)

Vote: Passed House by voice vote July 23, 2007

Cost to the taxpayers: “CBO estimates that the USFWS would spend $23 million over the 2008-2012 period to carry out the program. (An additional $2 million would be spent after 2012.)”

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