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Great Apes: Related Federal Statutes

Statute Name	Citation	Summary
NY - Enforcement, Conservation - Article 71. Enforcement.	NY ENVIR CONSER � 71-0101 to 71-0927	This set of statutes outlines the procedures and penalties for violations of New York's Environmental Conservation Law.
US - Apes - Great Apes Conservation Act of 2000	16 USC 6301 - 6305	The law assists in the conservation of great apes by supporting and providing financial resources for the conservation programs of countries within the range of great apes. Under the law, Great apes include the chimpanzee, gorilla, bonobo, orangutan, and gibbon. The law authorizes the Secretary of the Interior, through the Director of the Fish and Wildlife Service, to award grants to entities that will promote the conservation of great apes in the wild. The authorization for appropriations is $5 million per year through 2005 with 3% or $80,000, whichever is greater, expended to administer the grants program.
US - Chimpanzee - CHIMP Act	PL 106-551	This Act provides a system of sanctuaries for chimpanzees that are "no longer needed" in the biomedical research industry. The Act lists, among other things, requirements for the sanctuaries, criteria for "acceptable" chimpanzees, exceptions under which chimps can be brought out of "retirement."
US - Chimpanzee Sanctuary - Chapter 6A. Public Health Service	42 USC 283m	This Act was adopted to provide funding and a process by which those chimpanzees that are in the federal research program may be placed into a retirement setting.
US - Primate - Captive Primate Safety Act (proposed amend. to Lacey Act)	2009 H.R. 80	To amend the Lacey Act Amendments of 1981 to treat nonhuman primates as prohibited wildlife species under that Act, to make corrections in the provisions relating to captive wildlife offenses under that Act, and for other purposes.