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                              JULY 23, 2014 
 
                     RULES COMMITTEE PRINT 113-55 

                 TEXT OF H.R. 4315, 21st CENTURY ENDANGERED 
                      SPECIES TRANSPARENCY ACT 

     [Showing the texts of H.R. 4315, H.R. 4316, H.R. 4317, and 
       H.R. 4318 as reported by the Committee on Natural Resources, 
        with modifications.] 

1   SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

2   This Act may be cited as the "Endangered Species 

3   Transparency and Reasonableness Act". 

4   SEC. 2. REQUIREMENT TO PUBLISH ON THE INTERNET THE 

5   BASIS FOR LISTINGS. 

6   Section 4(b) of the Endangered Species Act (16 

7   U.S.C. 1533(b)) is amended by adding at the end the fol-


8   lowing: 

9   "(9) The Secretary shall make publicly available on 
10  the Internet the best scientific and commercial data avail-

11  able that are the basis for each regulation, including each 

12  proposed regulation, promulgated under subsection (a)(l), 

13  except that, at the request of a Governor or legislature 

14  of a State, the Secretary shall not make available under 

15  this paragraph information regarding which the State has 

16  determined public disclosure is prohibited by a law of that 

17  State relating to the protection of personal information.". 



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