State, Tribal, and Local Species Transparency and Recovery Act

(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.)

State, Tribal, and Local Species Transparency and Recovery Act - Amends the Endangered Species Act of 1973 to require the Secretary of the Interior or the Secretary of Commerce, as appropriate, to provide to affected states all data that is used as the basis of a determination on whether a species is an endangered species or a threatened species before making a determination.

Requires the appropriate Secretary to use data submitted by a state, tribal, or county government in making such a determination.

[Congressional Bills 113th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4317 Introduced in House (IH)]

113th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 4317

 To amend the Endangered Species Act of 1973 to require disclosure to 
States of the basis of determinations under such Act, to ensure use of 
   information provided by State, tribal, and county governments in 
         decisionmaking under such Act, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 27, 2014

 Mr. Neugebauer (for himself, Mr. Hastings of Washington, Mrs. Lummis, 
Mr. Amodei, Mr. Bishop of Utah, Mr. Collins of Georgia, Mr. Harris, Mr. 
 Huizenga of Michigan, Mr. Lankford, Mr. Luetkemeyer, Mr. Southerland, 
Mr. Thompson of Pennsylvania, and Mr. Valadao) introduced the following 
     bill; which was referred to the Committee on Natural Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend the Endangered Species Act of 1973 to require disclosure to 
States of the basis of determinations under such Act, to ensure use of 
   information provided by State, tribal, and county governments in 
         decisionmaking under such Act, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``State, Tribal, and Local Species 
Transparency and Recovery Act''.

SEC. 2. REQUIRING DECISIONAL TRANSPARENCY WITH AFFECTED STATES.

    Section 6(a) of the Endangered Species Act of 1973 (16 U.S.C. 
1535(a)) is amended--
            (1) by inserting ``(1)'' before the first sentence; and
            (2) by striking ``Such cooperation shall include'' and 
        inserting the following:
    ``(2) Such cooperation shall include--
            ``(A) before making a determination under section 4(a), 
        providing to States affected by such determination all data 
        that is the basis of the determination; and
            ``(B)''.

SEC. 3. ENSURING USE OF STATE, TRIBAL, AND LOCAL INFORMATION.

    (a) In General.--Section 3 of the Endangered Species Act of 1973 
(16 U.S.C. 1532) is amended--
            (1) by redesignating paragraphs (2) through (21) as 
        paragraphs (3) through (22), respectively; and
            (2) by inserting after paragraph (1) the following:
    ``(2) The term `best scientific and commercial data available' 
includes all such data submitted by a State, tribal, or county 
government.''.
    (b) Conforming Amendment.--Section 7(n) of such Act (16 U.S.C. 
1536(n)) is amended by striking ``section 3(13)'' and inserting 
``section 3(14)''.
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