ENDANGERED SPECIES ACT

Bills and resolutions

Dept. of the Interior: restrict from designating certain lands used for national defense-related purposes as critical habitats for any species and broaden exclusions and exemptions for such defense-related purposes (see H.R. 7197), H3862 [24MR]

Government regulations: provide flexibility in protective regulations when species are listed as threatened or endangered (see H.R. 8136), H5645 [16JN]

——— reform Federal regulatory permitting and project review processes for energy and infrastructure projects (see S. 4815), S4541 [12SE] (see H.R. 8966), H8112 [22SE]

——— require congressional approval of certain action (see S. 5179), S6941 [1DE] (see H.R. 9357), H8647 [29NO]

Information technology: require publication on Internet of basis for determinations that species are endangered or threatened (see H.R. 9108), H8371 [30SE]

Lesser prairie chicken: exclude certain populations from authority of such Act (see H.R. 9456), H8823 [7DE]

Pipelines: facilitate pipeline construction and limit regulatory and litigation delays under Federal Water Pollution Control Act, National Environmental Policy Act, and Endangered Species Act (see S. 5165), S6941 [1DE] (see H.R. 9372), H8707 [1DE]

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service: reissue final rules relative to listing of gray wolves in Western Great Lakes and Wyoming under Endangered Species Act (see S. 3738), S950 [2MR]

——— reissue regulations removing gray wolf from list of endangered and threatened wildlife under Endangered Species Act (see H.R. 7766), H4970 [13MY]

Remarks in House

Animals: remove gray wolf from lists of threatened and endangered species and exclude from authority of Endangered Species Act, H5517 [14JN]

Depts. of Agriculture and the Interior: eliminate requirement to reinitiate consultation on land management or land use plans relative to certain new endangered species information, H7426 [29JY]

Government regulations: provide flexibility in protective regulations when species are listed as threatened or endangered (H.R. 8136), H7429 [29JY]

——— reform environmental regulations to benefit rural communities, H3736–H3740 [15MR]

Lesser prairie chicken: exclude certain populations from authority of such Act (H.R. 9456), H8806 [7DE]

Reform, H5516 [14JN]

Remarks in Senate

Government regulations: reform Federal regulatory permitting and project review processes for energy and infrastructure projects, S4836 [20SE], S4961 [22SE], S5037, S5041, S5042 [27SE], S7179 [14DE], S7230–S7232 [15DE]

——— reform Federal regulatory permitting and project review processes for energy and infrastructure projects (S. 4815), S5117 [28SE]