Endangered Species Act: Critical Habitat Issues : Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Fisheries, Wildlife, and Water of the Committee on Environment and Public Works, United States Senate, One Hundred Eighth Congress, First Session, on to Review Federal Regulations with Respect to Critical Habitat Designations Under the Endangered Species Act, April 10, 2003U.S. Government Printing Office, 2004 - 121 страници |
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Страница 72 - Act are to provide a means whereby the ecosystems upon which endangered species and threatened species depend may be conserved, to provide a program for the conservation of such endangered species and threatened species, and...
Страница 77 - The Secretary may exclude any area from critical habitat if he determines that the benefits of such exclusion outweigh the benefits of specifying such area as part of the critical habitat, unless he determines, based on the best scientific and commercial data available, that the failure to designate such area as critical habitat will result in the extinction of the species concerned.
Страница 83 - The Secretary shall designate critical habitat, and make revisions thereto, under subsection (a)(3) on the basis of the best scientific data available and after taking into consideration the economic impact, and any other relevant impact, of specifying any particular area as critical habitat.
Страница 82 - Act, on which are found those physical or biological features (I) essential to the conservation of the species and (II) which may require special management considerations or protection; and (ii) specific areas outside...
Страница 72 - conserve", "conserving", and "conservation" mean to use and the use of all methods and procedures which are necessary to bring any endangered species or threatened species to the point at which the measures provided pursuant to this Act are no longer necessary.
Страница 77 - The policy is based on the definition of critical habitat which states, in part: . . . the specific areas within the geographical area occupied by the species ... on which are found those physical or biological features — (I) essential to the conservation of the species and (II) which may require special management considerations or protection...
Страница 3 - In 25 years of implementing the ESA, we have found that designation of official critical habitat provided little additional protection to most listed species while consumed significant amounts of scarce conservation resources.
Страница 87 - The agency provided us with oral comments, primarily technical clarifications, which we have incorporated as appropriate. As agreed with your office, unless you publicly announce its contents earlier, we plan no further distribution of this report until 10 days after the date of this letter.
Страница 82 - ... the specific areas within the geographical area occupied by the species, at the time it is listed in accordance with the provisions of section 4 of this Act, on which are found those physical or biological features (I) essential to the conservation of the species and (II) which may require special management considerations or protection...
Страница 84 - ESA restricts critical habitat to those "specific" areas "occupied by the species at the time it was listed" and on which are found physical or biological features "essential" to the species' conservation. Despite this mandate, the Services often failed to engage in the rigorous scientific and economic analyses required by the Act. This is because, historically, the Services reoutinely failed to designate critical habitat until under a court order to do so, often citing the lack of data or stafIing...