[Congressional Bills 113th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4315 Introduced in House (IH)]

113th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 4315

 To amend the Endangered Species Act of 1973 to require publication on 
     the Internet of the basis for determinations that species are 
   endangered species or threatened species, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 27, 2014

 Mr. Hastings of Washington (for himself, Mrs. Lummis, Mr. Amodei, Mr. 
  Bishop of Utah, Mr. Collins of Georgia, Mr. Harris, Mr. Huizenga of 
     Michigan, Mr. Lankford, Mr. Luetkemeyer, Mr. Neugebauer, Mr. 
Southerland, Mr. Thompson of Pennsylvania, and Mr. Valadao) introduced 
  the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Natural 
                               Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend the Endangered Species Act of 1973 to require publication on 
     the Internet of the basis for determinations that species are 
   endangered species or threatened species, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``21st Century Endangered Species 
Transparency Act''.

SEC. 2. REQUIREMENT TO PUBLISH ON THE INTERNET THE BASIS FOR LISTINGS.

    Section 4(b) of the Endangered Species Act (16 U.S.C. 1533(b)) is 
amended by adding at the end the following:
    ``(9) The Secretary shall make publicly available on the Internet 
the best scientific and commercial data available that are the basis 
for each regulation, including each proposed regulation, promulgated 
under subsection (a)(1).''.
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