Limits federal bans on lead ammunition and fishing tackle on federal land and water

§1What it does

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This bill would bar the Fish and Wildlife Service, the Bureau of Land Management and the Forest Service from banning the use of lead ammunition or fishing tackle, or regulating the lead content of either, on federal land or water they manage that is open to hunting or fishing, except under certain existing regulations.^2,3,4 An agency could still restrict lead on a specific unit of land or water if field data from that unit showed that lead from ammunition or tackle was the main cause of a decline in a wildlife population, and the restriction was consistent with state law or state wildlife agency policy or was approved by the state wildlife agency.⁴ The agency would have to explain in a Federal Register notice how such a restriction meets these conditions.⁴

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