Endangered Species Recovery Act of 2001
Latest action · May 7, 2002 Executive Comment Requested from Interior.
Progress
Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.
- IntroducedApr 24, 2002
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Establishes a schedule for publishing species listing determinations.
Provides for draft and final recovery plans for the conservation of endangered and threatened species.
Requires Federal agencies to monitor the status and trends of endangered, threatened, and candidate species on lands or waters under their administration.
Applies provisions regarding interagency cooperation and consultation to species in a foreign country or on the high seas.
Requires the Secretary to: (1) undertake to conserve species where a permittee defaults on permit or plan obligations; and (2) implement a streamlined application and approval procedure for incidental take permits and plans determined to be low effect, small scale plans.
Sets forth requirements for the deposit of performance bonds and other financial security by incidental take permit (other than low effect, small scale) applicants.
Establishes the Habitat Conservation Plan Fund.
Directs the Secretary to establish a Community Assistance Program to provide timely and accurate information to local governments or property owners.
Makes persons who negligently damage any member or habitat of an endangered or threatened species liable to the United States and a State for the restoration or replacement costs.
Authorizes the Secretary to enter into endangered species conservation agreements with owners or lessees of real property on which conservation measures for endangered, threatened, or candidate species or species proposed for listing are to be carried out.
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to require that the value of a taxable estate be determined by deducting from the value of the gross estate the value of included real property subject to an endangered species conservation agreement.
Allows an additional tax deduction for real property taxes imposed on State and local property subject to such agreements. Allows a tax credit for costs incurred in connection with such agreements.
Extends the authorization of appropriations to carry out the Act.
Cosponsors 80
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Apr 24, 2002 to Nov 14, 2002, with 77 there on the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| D-WA | Adam Smith | Original | Apr 24, 2002 |
| D-FL | Alcee L. Hastings | Original | Apr 24, 2002 |
| D-CA | Anna G. Eshoo | Original | Apr 24, 2002 |
| D-CA | Barbara Lee | Original | Apr 24, 2002 |
| D-MA | Barney Frank | Original | Apr 24, 2002 |
| I-VT | Bernard Sanders | Original | Apr 24, 2002 |
| D-MN | Betty McCollum | Original | Apr 24, 2002 |
| D-MA | Bill Delahunt | Original | Apr 24, 2002 |
| D-NJ | Bill Pascrell, Jr. | Original | Apr 24, 2002 |
| D-CA | Brad Sherman | Original | Apr 24, 2002 |
| D-NY | Carolyn B. Maloney | Original | Apr 24, 2002 |
| R-CT | Christopher Shays | Original | Apr 24, 2002 |
| R-MD | Constance A. Morella | Original | Apr 24, 2002 |
| D-GA | Cynthia A. McKinney | Original | Apr 24, 2002 |
| D-MI | Dale E. Kildee | Original | Apr 24, 2002 |
Actions 3
Everything that happened, newest first.
- May 7, 2002Executive Comment Requested from Interior.
- Apr 24, 2002Introduced in House
- Apr 24, 2002Referred to the Committee on Resources, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources.
- Administrative procedure
- Animals
- Authorization
- Biological diversity conservation
- Citizen lawsuits
- Citizen participation
- Civil actions and liability
- Damages
- Department of Commerce
- Department of the Interior
- Economic development
- Economics and Public Finance
- Ecosystem management
- Endangered animals
- Endangered plants
- Endangered species
- Environmental assessment
- Environmental monitoring
- Environmental Protection
- Estate tax
- Federal-Indian relations
- Federal-local relations
- Federal-state relations
- Fees
- Finance and Financial Sector
- Fishery management
- Foreign Trade and International Finance
- Gifts
- Government Operations and Politics
- Government paperwork
- Government publicity
- Government trust funds
- Habitat conservation
- Income tax
- Indian lands
- International Affairs
- International environmental cooperation
- Land use
- Law
- Liability for environmental damages
- Licenses
- Local taxation
- Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
- Marine mammal protection
- Marine resources conservation
- Minorities
- Negligence
- Personal income tax
- Planning
- Public Lands and Natural Resources
- Real estate appraisal
- Real property tax
- Science, Technology, Communications
- Scientists
- State taxation
- Surety and fidelity
- Tax credits
- Tax deductions
- Tax deferral
- Taxation
- Trade agreements
- Treaties
- Wild animal trade
- Wildlife conservation
- Wildlife management
Everything here is as published by Congress: the summary is the Congressional Research Service's, the action wording is the clerks', and the subjects are the Library of Congress's. How far it got is read from the actions themselves, taking the most recent one of each kind, so a bill that failed a vote and later passed is shown as having passed. Records come from this bill on Congress.gov and govinfo.gov.