ENDANGERED SPECIES ACT

Amendments

Endangered species: provide greater results conserving and recovering listed species (H.R. 3824), H8348 [26SE], H8552, H8560, H8564 [29SE]

Articles and editorials

Endangered Act, H8519 [29SE]

Species Act Succeeds With Flying Colors, H8520 [29SE]

Bills and resolutions

Animals: establish limitations on the designation of critical habitat (see H.R. 1837), H2549 [26AP]

———reform process for designating critical habitat (see H.R. 1299), H1507 [15MR]

———treat distinct population segments of the Eastern oyster as separate species (see H.R. 3110), H5434 (see H.R. 3110), H5479 [29JN]

Endangered species: authorize species recovery agreements under which the Federal Government is obligated to make annual payments or provide other compensation for activities that improve recovery of one or more species (see H.R. 3300), H5913 [14JY]

———enable certain Federal agencies to rescue and relocate species threatened by reconstruction, maintenance, or repair of manmade flood control levees (see H.R. 2779), H4187 [7JN]

———enhance the role of States in recovery, implement a species conservation recovery system, and provide assistance and incentives to promote recovery (see S. 2110), S13659 [15DE]

———provide greater results conserving and recovering listed species (see H.R. 3824), H8102 [19SE]

———provide greater results conserving and recovering listed species (H.R. 3824), consideration (see H. Res. 470), H8512 [28SE]

Letters

Threatened and Endangered Species Recovery Act: Steve Ellis, Taxpayers for Common Sense (organization), E2004 [3OC]

Remarks in House

Albuquerque, NM: agreement reached with environmental groups on protection of silvery minnow habitat in water conservation project, E331 [2MR]

Dept. of Energy: require Power Marketing Administrations to list Endangered Species Act related costs as a line item in customer's monthly billing, E2028 [6OC]

Dept. of the Interior: vest functions relative to certain migratory fish, H8523 [29SE]

Electric power: detail associated costs in customers' monthly electricity bills, H8523 [29SE]

Endangered species: authorize species recovery agreements under which the Federal Government is obligated to make annual payments or provide other compensation for activities that improve recovery of one or more species, H8546 [29SE]

———consolidate related programs and review protective regulations, H8561-H8563 [29SE]

———habitat protection, H8579 [29SE]

———liability of operators of reservoirs, canals, and other artificial water delivery facilities for certain take of listed fish attributable to State recreational sport fishing programs, E2003 [3OC]

———provide greater results conserving and recovering listed species (H.R. 3824), H8392 [28SE], H8517, H8535-H8584 [29SE], E2003 [3OC], E2015, E2016, E2020, E2028, E2042 [6OC], E2055, E2057, E2058, E2066, E2071, E2076 [7OC], E2185 [27OC]

———provide greater results conserving and recovering listed species (H.R. 3824), amendment process, H8325 [22SE]

———provide greater results conserving and recovering listed species (H.R. 3824), consideration (H. Res. 470), H8517-H8525 [29SE]

Floods: streamline certain regulations to allow local officials to make critical repairs and improvements to levee systems, H8579 [29SE]

Government regulations: clarify intended use of recovery plans as discretionary guidance documents, E2076 [7OC]

———imposing of potential Federal regualtory requirements, withholding of permits and licenses, or requiring special stipulations on Federal leases relative to not yet listed species, H8546 [29SE]

Land use: compensate landowners who relinquish property for recovery of an endangered species or for certain other purposes, H8520, H8545, H8551, H8562, H8564, H8575, H8577, H8579-H8581 [29SE]

———treatment of private property rights, H8547, H8548 [29SE]

New Orleans, LA: GAO report clarifying that none of the delays or changes in the Lake Pontchartrain and vicinity hurricane protection project caused levee breaches in areas affected by Hurricane Katrina, H8576 [29SE]

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service: expand scope of impact analysis requirement in species listing process, E2028 [6OC]

Remarks in Senate

AID: devise strategy to assist in reversing the decline of the Irrawaddy dolphin habitat, S2239 [8MR]

Endangered species: enhance the role of States in recovery, implement a species conservation recovery system, and provide assistance and incentives to promote recovery (S. 2110), S13677-S13679 [15DE]

———modify provisions that provide legal protections to environmental rulings of Federal agencies, S12748 [14NO]

Reports

Lake Pontchartrain and Vicinity Hurricane Protection Project: GAO, H8576 [29SE]

Reports filed

Consideration of H.R. 3824, Threatened and Endangered Species Recovery Act: Committee on Rules (House) (H. Res. 470) (H. Rept. 109-240), H8512 [28SE]

Threatened and Endangered Species Recovery Act: Committee on Resources (House) (H.R. 3824) (H. Rept. 109-237), H8386 [27SE]

Texts of

H. Res. 470, consideration of H.R. 3824, Threatened and Endangered Species Recovery Act, H8517 [29SE]

H.R. 3824, Threatened and Endangered Species Recovery Act, H8552-H8560 [29SE]