One of Obama's out-the-door Executive Orders - FWS Director's Order #219

[Monadnock]

[FONT=&quot]DIRECTOR'S ORDER NO. 219

[/FONT][FONT=&quot]FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE[/FONT]

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[FONT=&quot]Subject:[/FONT][FONT=&quot] USE OF NONTOXIC AMMUNITION AND FISHING TACKLE[/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]Sec. 1 What is the purpose of this Order?[/FONT][FONT=&quot] The purpose of this Order is to establish procedures and a timeline for expanding the use of nontoxic ammunition and fishing tackle on Service lands, waters, and facilities and for certain types of hunting and fishing regulated by the Service outside of Service lands, waters, and facilities.[/FONT]

If you read into the order, they aren't referring only to National Parks and Federal Lands. They seem to be including any small bodies of water and seasonal streams that any local bureaucrat deems as threatened by lead contamination or contact or impact on game or fowl.

Obama signed off on this Director's Order as part of his Executive Orders on exit. Ostensibly, it's worded to promote non-toxic ammo and fishing tackle, in reality, it also means the elimination of lead for these purposes. This could really impact ammo prices and the use of existing supplies. All it would require is the for the "official" in your jurisdiction and bureaucrat's across the nation to decide that the puddle in your yard is eligible.

https://www.fws.gov/policy/do219.html

 

[bubajoe]

That man is more resilient the herpes, he's a bad decision that keeps coming back.

 

[greencobra]

he wasn't my president!

 

[doxdsgn]

With any luck, in the FWS's rush to get this order on the books, they didn't follow the rules. If Congress reviews it within 60 days or they failed to follow regulatory requirements to create the new rule, it would be subject to the Congressional Review Act. Needs only a simple majority of both houses of Congress to get rid of it and prevent them from implementing any regulation in the future that is substantially the same.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congressional_Review_Act

Link to a story about it being used:

http://www.rollcall.com/news/policy/gop-leaps-congressional-review-act-kill-obama-rules

 

[Penniepup1]

Obama who?

 

[Monadnock]

Related:

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/obamas-final-shot-ban-on-traditional-ammo/article/2612647

By Paul Bedard

In its final attack on gun owners, the Obama administration moved to ban traditional lead ammo on federal grounds and waterways on its last full day in office.
The ban, which includes cheap bullets and common fishing tackle, can be repealed by the Trump administration and was immediately condemned as an attack on outdoors people and rural life.
"This directive is irresponsible and driven not out of sound science but unchecked politics," said Lawrence Keane, senior vice president and general counsel of the National Shooting Sports Foundation. ...

Update:

by AWR Hawkins 3 Mar 2017
Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke signed a Secretarial Order on Thursday repealing the lead ammunition ban issued the day before Barack Obama left office.

It is interesting to note that Thursday was Zinke’s first day as Interior Secretary and repealing the onerous ban one of his first actions.
On January 19, the National Shooting Sports Foundation’s Lawrence Keane described the lead ammunition ban as the Obama administration’s “parting shot” against the hunting community. The ban was contained in Director’s Order 219–from National Fish and Wildlife Service Director Dan Ashe–and it required regional directors to work with state-level agencies to begin phasing out the use of lead ammunition on Federal land. This included banning lead ammunition in “National Parks, tribal lands and national wildlife refuges in order to mirror policies in states where traditional ammunition is already restricted.”
D.O. 219 also stipulated that the “Assistant Director, Migratory Birds, in consultation with National Flyway Councils and individual states, …establish a process to phase in a requirement for the use of nontoxic ammunition for recreational hunting of mourning doves and other upland game birds.” This indicated a staggered implementation where the use of traditional ammunition for dove and upland bird hunting would be heavily restricted and eventually eliminated altogether.
But Zinke overturned this ban with Secretarial Order 3346.
S.O. 3346 “revokes Director’s Order 219.” Moreover, S.O. 3346 is effective immediately.
This is the second Obama-era gun control to be repealed within a week. On February 28 President Trump signed the repeal of Obama’s Social Security gun ban. The White House explained that the Social Security gun ban was repealed on grounds that it “would prevent some Americans with disabilities from purchasing or possessing firearms” and “could endanger the Second Amendment rights of law abiding citizens.”

http://www.breitbart.com/big-govern...ay-one-repeals-obama-era-lead-ammunition-ban/

 

[bigblue]

#notmyeo

 

[Horrible]

Related:

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/obamas-final-shot-ban-on-traditional-ammo/article/2612647

By Paul Bedard

In its final attack on gun owners, the Obama administration moved to ban traditional lead ammo on federal grounds and waterways on its last full day in office.
The ban, which includes cheap bullets and common fishing tackle, can be repealed by the Trump administration and was immediately condemned as an attack on outdoors people and rural life.
"This directive is irresponsible and driven not out of sound science but unchecked politics," said Lawrence Keane, senior vice president and general counsel of the National Shooting Sports Foundation. ...

Update:

by AWR Hawkins 3 Mar 2017
Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke signed a Secretarial Order on Thursday repealing the lead ammunition ban issued the day before Barack Obama left office.

It is interesting to note that Thursday was Zinke’s first day as Interior Secretary and repealing the onerous ban one of his first actions.
On January 19, the National Shooting Sports Foundation’s Lawrence Keane described the lead ammunition ban as the Obama administration’s “parting shot” against the hunting community. The ban was contained in Director’s Order 219–from National Fish and Wildlife Service Director Dan Ashe–and it required regional directors to work with state-level agencies to begin phasing out the use of lead ammunition on Federal land. This included banning lead ammunition in “National Parks, tribal lands and national wildlife refuges in order to mirror policies in states where traditional ammunition is already restricted.”
D.O. 219 also stipulated that the “Assistant Director, Migratory Birds, in consultation with National Flyway Councils and individual states, …establish a process to phase in a requirement for the use of nontoxic ammunition for recreational hunting of mourning doves and other upland game birds.” This indicated a staggered implementation where the use of traditional ammunition for dove and upland bird hunting would be heavily restricted and eventually eliminated altogether.
But Zinke overturned this ban with Secretarial Order 3346.
S.O. 3346 “revokes Director’s Order 219.” Moreover, S.O. 3346 is effective immediately.
This is the second Obama-era gun control to be repealed within a week. On February 28 President Trump signed the repeal of Obama’s Social Security gun ban. The White House explained that the Social Security gun ban was repealed on grounds that it “would prevent some Americans with disabilities from purchasing or possessing firearms” and “could endanger the Second Amendment rights of law abiding citizens.”

http://www.breitbart.com/big-govern...ay-one-repeals-obama-era-lead-ammunition-ban/

Nice. Glad that POS EO was short lived!