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Endangered Species Act

EPAs decision to register a pesticide is based in part on the risk of adverse effects on endangered species as well as environmental fate (how a pesticide will affect habitat). Under FIFRA, EPA can issue emergency suspensions of certain pesticides to cancel or restrict their use if an endangered species will be adversely affected. Under a new program, EPA, FWS, and USDA are distributing [Pg.288]

To take is to harass, harm, pursue, hunt, shoot, wound, kill, trap, capture, or collect a plant or animal of any threatened or endangered species. Harm includes significant habitat modification when it kills or injures a member of a listed species through impairment of essential behavior (e.g., nesting or reproduction). For any non-federal industrial activity, the burden is on the owner or operator to determine if an incidental take permit is needed. This is typically accomplished by contacting the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) to determine whether any listed species are present or will potentially inhabit the project site. A biological survey may be required to determine whether protected species are present on the site and whether [Pg.247]

A Section 9 permit must include a habitat conservation plan (HCP) consisting of an assessment of impacts measures that will be undertaken to monitor, minimize, and mitigate any impacts alternative actions considered and an explanation of why they were not taken and any additional measures that the FWS may require (USFS, 2011). Mitigation measures, which are actions that reduce or address potential adverse effects of a proposed [Pg.248]

All 50 states have fish and game or wildlife agencies that work in cooperation with U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service district offices with regard to the incidental take permitting process. Many states also have their own endangered and threatened species lists that may include species not on the federal lists, and they may have their own requirements for protecting endangered species (CICA, 2008). [Pg.248]


Agency (EPA), which was established in 1970, the same year the first Clean Air Act was passed into law. In 1972 the Clean Water Act became law, and in 1973 the Endangered Species Act became law. Other important federal environmental legislation includes the Resource Consei vation and Recoveiy Act, passed in 1976 the Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 the Nuclear Waste Policy Acts of 1982 and 1987 and the Low-Level Radioactive Waste Policy Acts of 1980 and 1985. From 1980 to 2000 these environmental regulations, and the enforcement efforts of the EPA, have had a much greater impact on decisions made in the energy industiy than all the policy initiatives implemented by the DOE. [Pg.478]

Endangered Species Act (ESA) 1973 Conserves threatened and endangered species, and the ecosystems on which those species depend, by maintaining guidelines for placement of wildlife and plant species on a list, preventing removal of the species and habitat, and providing a mechanism to ensure federal actions will not impair or jeopardize protected species and their habitats... [Pg.16]

The Endangered Species Act of 1973 authorized the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to create and maintain a list of endangered plant and animal species and to take action to protect those species, within certain limits. [Pg.16]

In 1989 the USFWS proposed to list the Spotted Owl as Threatened, under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). In July 1989, Congress appropriated 13 million to study the spotted owl. One important finding of the studies was that there were more spotted owls in old growth forests than there were in very young... [Pg.86]

On April 7,2001, the Bureau of Reclamation shut off water for irrigation in the Klamath Basin. The water was needed for salmon and suckerfish, and the Endangered Species Act took priority over Indian treaties and irrigation guarantees. Some 1,500 family-owned farms could not grow crops without the irrigation water. Farmers and agriculture-dependent businesses in the Klamath Basin lost about 200 million. [Pg.99]

The Federal Endangered Species Act (ESA) was first passed in 1973, amended in 1978,1979 and 1982, and reauthorized in 1985. The act requires that all federal agencies insure that their actions will not jeopardize endangered or threatened animal and plant species and their habitats. [Pg.33]

Unlike the FEPCA, the Endangered Species Act does not require the EPA to weigh risks and benefits in prohibiting a product s use. The economic cost of protecting a species is not a consideration under the act. [Pg.34]

The Endangered Species Act is intended to protect and promote recovery of animals and plants that are in danger of becoming extinct due to the activities of people. Under the Act, EPA must ensure that use of pesticides it registers will not result in harm to the species listed as endangered or threatened by the U S. Fish and Wildlife Service, or to habitat critical to those... [Pg.377]

Hundreds of animals (including fish, birds, mammals, reptiles, amphibians, insects, and aquatic invertebrates) and thousands of plants have been named as endangered or threatened species under the provisions of the Endangered Species Act. Some of these animals and plants are ones that everyone knows about, such as the bald eagle. Others are tiny, little-known aeatures that may rarely be seen by anyone except trained naturalists. [Pg.378]

United States enacts Endangered Species Act to better safeguard, for the benefit of all citizens, the nation s heritage in fish, wildlife, and plants. [Pg.13]

Meador, J.P., T.K. Collier and J.E. Stein. Tissue and sediment-based threshold concentrations of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) to protect juvenile salmonids listed under the US Endangered Species Act. Aquat. Conserv. Mar. Freshw. Ecosyst. 12 493-516, 2002. [Pg.152]

Pepper, C.B., Nascarella, M.A., Marsland, E.J., Montford, J.T., Wood, L., Cox, S.B., Bradford, C.M., Burns, T.H., and Presley, S.M. 2004. Threatened or endangered Keystone species or public health threat The black-tailed prairie dog, the Endangered Species Act, and the imminent threat of bubonic plague, J. Land. Resour. Environ. Law 24, pp. 355-391. [Pg.102]

Selection of response actions that result in the recovery, or maintenance, of healthy local populations/communities of ecological receptors that are (or should be) present at the site furthermore, in support of proper risk management, risk assessors are advised to select assessment endpoints and measures (as defined in ERAGS) that are ecologically relevant to the site and include species that are exposed and sensitive to response to site contaminants, such as explosives. In addition, if individual threatened or endangered (T E) species or critical habitats for such species are present at a site, the Endangered Species Act may be declared an applicable or relevant and appropriate requirement (ARAR) within the ERA of the site. [Pg.282]


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