ENDANGERED SPECIES ACT

Amendments

Information technology: require publication on the Internet of the basis for determinations that species are endangered species or threatened species (H.R. 4315), H6978 [28JY], H7015, H7016, H7017, H7018, H7019 [29JY]

——— require publication on the Internet of the basis for determinations that species are endangered species or threatened species (H.R. 4315), consideration (H. Res. 693), H6993 [29JY]

Bills and resolutions

Columbia River: ensure salmon and steelhead preservation, maintain reasonably priced and reliable power, and study the impact of dams on endangered salmon and steelhead (see H.R. 4097), H2000 [26FE]

Conservation of natural resources: establish objective numerical recovery goals for removal of species from lists of endangered and threatened species (see H.R. 5329), H7182 [31JY]

Courts: improve disclosure of funds expended to respond to lawsuits, dedicate employees to litigation, and cover attorneys fees relative to the Endangered Species Act (see S. 2752), S5217 [31JY] (see H.R. 4316), H2743 [27MR]

——— place caps on attorneys fees for suits filed under such Act (see S. 2748), S5217 [31JY] (see H.R. 4318), H2743 [27MR]

Dept. of the Interior: prepare a report on the status of greater sage grouse conservation efforts (see S. 2575), S4336 [9JY]

——— require to publish and make available for public comment a draft economic analysis at the time a proposed rule to designate critical habitat is published (see S. 2084), S1315 [5MR] (see S. 2729), S5216 [31JY]

Depts. of Agriculture and the Interior: prohibit land management modifications relative to listing of lesser prairie chicken as a threatened species (see S. 2623), S4620 [17JY]

Depts. of the Interior and Agriculture: provide certain Western States assistance in the development of statewide conservation and management plans for the protection and recovery of sage grouse species (see S. 2394), S3294 [22MY] (see H.R. 4716), H4828 [22MY]

Economy: publish and make available for public comment a draft economic analysis at the time a proposed rule to designate critical habitat is published (see H.R. 4319), H2743 [27MR]

Endangered species: protect and conserve species and the lawful possession of certain ivory in the U.S. (see S. 2587), S4404 [10JY] (see H.R. 5052), H6105 [10JY] (see H.R. 5886), H9303 [11DE]

——— remove the American burying beetle from the endangered species list (see S. 2678), S5050 [29JY]

——— require, in counting the species in a State for determining whether the species is endangered or threatened, inclusion of the number of the species on State and private lands (see H.R. 4256), H2484 [14MR]

Federal-State relations: disclose to States the basis of determinations and ensure use of information provided by State, tribal, and county governments in decisionmaking (see S. 2630), S4620 [17JY] (see H.R. 4317), H2743 [27MR]

Information technology: require publication on the Internet of the basis for determinations that species are endangered species or threatened species (see S. 2635), S4705 [22JY] (see H.R. 4315), H2743 [27MR]

——— require publication on the Internet of the basis for determinations that species are endangered species or threatened species (H.R. 4315), consideration (see H. Res. 693), H6975 [28JY]

Public lands: require periodic review of listings of endangered and threatened species, provide resource management options, and require Federal conservation measures and habitat preservation (see H.R. 4419), H3056 [8AP]

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service: encourage greater State input and authority over species and habitat management by allowing implementation of State Protective Actions before species are listed as endangered (see H.R. 4284), H2610 [24MR]

——— reverse listing of lesser prairie chicken as a threatened species and prevent further consideration of such listing pending implementation of conservation plans and measures (see S. 2677), S5050 [29JY] (see H.R. 4866), H5363 [12JN]

Motions

Information technology: require publication on the Internet of the basis for determinations that species are endangered species or threatened species (H.R. 4315), H7022 [29JY]

Remarks in House

Columbia River: ensure salmon and steelhead preservation, maintain reasonably priced and reliable power, and study the impact of dams on endangered salmon and steelhead (H.R. 4097), E247, E254 [26FE]

Courts: improve disclosure of funds expended to respond to lawsuits, dedicate employees to litigation, and cover attorneys fees relative to the Endangered Species Act, H6844 [25JY], H6990–H6993 [29JY], E1304 [1AU]

——— place caps on attorneys fees for suits filed under such Act, H6844 [25JY], H6990–H6993, H7010, H7011 [29JY]

——— require disclosure of Federal funding used in litigation against the Federal Government in a covered suit, H7019, H7020 [29JY]

Endangered species: allow importation of polar bear trophies taken in sport hunts in Canada before the date the polar bear was determined to be a threatened species, H1565 [4FE], E191 [11FE]

Federal-State relations: disclose to States the basis of determinations and ensure use of information provided by State, tribal, and county governments in decisionmaking, H6844 [25JY], H6990–H6993, H7009, H7010 [29JY], E1304 [1AU]

Information technology: clarify that publication on the Internet of certain data is consistent with State privacy regulations and does not apply to Dept. of Defense classifed information, H7016, H7017 [29JY]

——— exclude scientific information published solely in internal Dept. of the Interior publications from the definition of ‘‘best scientific and commercial data available’’, H7017, H7018 [29JY]

——— prohibit automatically defining all data submitted by State, county, or tribal governments as the ‘‘best scientific and commercial data available’’, H7018, H7019 [29JY]

——— require publication on the Internet of the basis for determinations that species are endangered species or threatened species (H.R. 4315), H6844 [25JY], H6983, H7007–H7024 [29JY], E1279 [30JY], E1304, E1315 [1AU]

——— require publication on the Internet of the basis for determinations that species are endangered species or threatened species (H.R. 4315), consideration (H. Res. 693), H6989–H6995 [29JY]

——— require publication on the Internet of the basis for determinations that species are endangered species or threatened species (H.R. 4315), motion to recommit, H7022 [29JY]

Native Americans: ensure fulfillment of Federal trust responsibility with respect to Indian tribes relative to Internet publication of the basis for determinations that species are endangered species or threatened species, H7022 [29JY]

Northern Long-Eared Bat: economic impact of proposal to designate as an endangered species, H7279 [8SE]

Remarks in Senate

Endangered species: protect and conserve species and the lawful possession of certain ivory in the U.S. (S. 2587), S4744 [23JY]

Reports filed

Consideration of H.R. 4315, Endangered Species Transparency and Reasonableness Act: Committee on Rules (House) (H. Res. 693) (H. Rept. 113–563), H6975 [28JY]

Endangered Species Litigation Reasonableness Act: Committee on Natural Resources (House) (H.R. 4318) (H. Rept. 113–540), H6397 [17JY]

Endangered Species Recovery Transparency Act: Committee on Natural Resources (House) (H.R. 4316) (H. Rept. 113–538), H6397 [17JY]

State, Tribal, and Local Species Transparency and Recovery Act: Committee on Natural Resources (House) (H.R. 4317) (H. Rept. 113–539), H6397 [17JY]

21st Century Endangered Species Transparency Act: Committee on Natural Resources (House) (H.R. 4315) (H. Rept. 113–537), H6397 [17JY]

Texts of

H. Res. 693, consideration of H.R. 4315, Endangered Species Transparency and Reasonableness Act, H6989 [29JY]

H.R. 4315, Endangered Species Transparency and Reasonableness Act, H7015 [29JY]

S. 2635, 21st Century Endangered Species Transparency Act, S4707 [22JY]