[Congressional Record Volume 151, Number 130 (Friday, October 7, 2005)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E2066]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




         THREATENED AND ENDANGERED SPECIES RECOVERY ACT OF 2005

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                               speech of

                         HON. RICHARD W. POMBO

                             of california

                    in the house of representatives

                      Thursday, September 29, 2005

       The House in Committee of the Whole House on the State of 
     the Union had under consideration the bill. (H.R. 3824) to 
     amend and reauthorize the Endangered Species Act of 1973 to 
     provide greater results conserving and recovering listed 
     species, and for others purposes:

  Mr. Chairman, the addition of paragraph (6) to the Endangered Species 
Act section 7(a) is intended to preclude agency actions from being 
subject to section 7(a) requirements, if those actions implement or are 
consistent with a conservation habitat plan or agreement incorporated 
in a permit issued under section 10. The issuance of a section 10 
permit is itself an agency action and therefore subject to section 7(a) 
requirements. This new paragraph allows agency actions authorized in an 
approved section 10 permit to transpire without having to meet further 
section 7(a) requirements.

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