Endangered Species: Spotted Owl Petition Evaluation Beset by Problems : United States General Accounting Office Report to the Chairman, Subcommittee on Fisheries and Wildlife Conservation and the Environment, Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries, House of RepresentativesThe Office, 1988 - 22 pages |
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90 days brief the FWS conservation activities deadline Decision Process delay in starting deny the listing Director of Fws draft report endangered or threatened Endangered Species Act evaluation extinction facing the owl final decision form a study Fws Director FWs headquarters officials Fws officially Fws Region Fws to determine GreenWorld GreenWorld's petition January 28 list other species list the Northern list the owl list the spotted listed as endangered listing decision listing petition months National Forest Northern Spotted Owl November 30 draft old growth forests Olympic Peninsula owl as endangered owl's status peer review petition process petition to list petitioned action population viability analysis protection efforts provide additional support reach a decision request response Secretary Section Service's spotted owl experts spotted owl petition Spotted Owl Status spotted owl study status report Summary of Endangered team member ted owl threatened species tion top Interior official U.S. Forest Service warranted
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Page 13 - ... the present or threatened destruction, modification, or curtailment of its habitat or range...
Page 12 - endangered species' means any species which is in danger of extinction throughout all or a significant portion of its range...
Page 12 - take" means to harass, harm, pursue, hunt, shoot, wound, kill, trap, capture, or collect, or to attempt to engage in any such conduct. (15) The term "threatened species" means any species which is likely to become an endangered species within the foreseeable future throughout all or a significant portion of its range.
Page 13 - Secretary shall make determinations required by subsection (a)(l) of this section solely on the basis of the best scientific and commercial data available to him after conducting a review of the status of the species...
Page 12 - person" means an individual, corporation, partnership, trust, association, or any other private entity; or any officer, employee, agent, department, or instrumentality of the Federal Government, of any State, municipality, or political subdivision of a State, or of any foreign government; any State, municipality, or political subdivision of a State; or any other entity subject to the jurisdiction of the United States.
Page 12 - species" includes any subspecies of fish or wildlife or plants, and any distinct population segment of any species of vertebrate fish or wildlife which Interbreeds when mature.
Page 14 - A petition with respect to which a finding is made under subparagraph (B)(iii) shall be treated as a petition that is resubmitted to the Secretary under subparagraph (A) on the date of such finding and that presents substantial scientific or commercial information that the petitioned action may be warranted.
Page 14 - Register a general notice and the complete text of a proposed regulation to implement such action in accordance with paragraph (5). (iii) The petitioned action is warranted, but that — (I) the immediate proposal and timely promulgation of a final regulation implementing the petitioned action in accordance with paragraphs (5) and (6) is precluded by pending proposals to determine whether any species...
Page 14 - ... the Secretary shall make a finding as to whether the petition presents substantial scientific or commercial information indicating that the petitioned action may be warranted.
Page 8 - The peer-reviewed study team report was substantively altered to make it more suitable for supporting a no-list decision. Finally, while the decision-making process was largely undocumented, the official who made the no-list decision told us he decided to deny the listing petition at least partially in response to a belief that top FWS and Interior officials would not accept a decision to grant the petition. These problems raise serious questions about whether FWS maintained its scientific objectivity...