[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1273 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1273

 To amend the Endangered Species Act of 1973 to require publication 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 1, 2017

   Mr. Newhouse (for himself, Mr. Gosar, Mr. Pearce, Mr. Harper, Mr. 
  Cramer, Mr. Marshall, Mr. Chaffetz, and Mr. Tipton) 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 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 of 1973 (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), except that, 
        at the request of a Governor or legislature of a State, the 
        Secretary shall not make available under this paragraph 
        information regarding which the State has determined public 
        disclosure is prohibited by a law of that State relating to the 
        protection of personal information.''.
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