Critical Habitat Enhancement Act of 2005
Latest action · Mar 22, 2005 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.
- IntroducedMar 15, 2005
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Critical Habitat Enhancement Act of 2005 - Amends the Endangered Species Act of 1973 to require the relevant Secretary (the Secretary of the Interior or the Secretary of Commerce) to make any designation of critical habitat of an endangered or threatened species not later than one year after final approval of a recovery plan for the species or three years after final regulations implementing a determination that the species is endangered or threatened, whichever is earlier.
Directs the Secretary to reconsider determinations that critical habitat designation is not practicable or determinable during the next five-year review of listed species or at the time of final approval of a recovery plan for the species.
Makes critical habitat designations inapplicable to actions authorized by: (1) an incidental taking permit; (2) an incidental taking statement provided by the Secretary; or (3) a land conservation or species management program that meets specified requirements.
Directs the Secretary, in determining whether an area is critical habitat, to seek and consider information from local governments in the vicinity of the area.
Specifies factors for consideration in determining the economic impact of critical habitat designation.
Modifies notice requirements applicable to proposed designations of critical habitat to require that any municipality having administrative jurisdiction over the area in which the species is believed to occur is given actual notice.
Redefines "critical habitat" to mean geographic areas determined by field survey data to be occupied by the species at the time of designation and which are necessary to the continued existence of the species.
Cosponsors 29
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Mar 15, 2005 to Jun 14, 2005, with 16 there on the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| R-ID | C. L. (Butch) Otter | Original | Mar 15, 2005 |
| R-MT | Denny Rehberg | Original | Mar 15, 2005 |
| R-CA | Devin Nunes | Original | Mar 15, 2005 |
| R-CA | Gary G. Miller | Original | Mar 15, 2005 |
| R-CA | George Radanovich | Original | Mar 15, 2005 |
| R-OR | Greg Walden | Original | Mar 15, 2005 |
| D-CA | Jim Costa | Original | Mar 15, 2005 |
| D-CA | Joe Baca | Original | Mar 15, 2005 |
| R-PA | John E. Peterson | Original | Mar 15, 2005 |
| R-CA | John T. Doolittle | Original | Mar 15, 2005 |
| R-CA | Ken Calvert | Original | Mar 15, 2005 |
| D-GU | Madeleine Z. Bordallo | Original | Mar 15, 2005 |
| R-ID | Michael K. Simpson | Original | Mar 15, 2005 |
| R-NE | Tom Osborne | Original | Mar 15, 2005 |
| R-CA | Wally Herger | Original | Mar 15, 2005 |
Actions 3
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Mar 22, 2005Executive Comment Requested from Interior.
- Mar 15, 2005Introduced in House
- Mar 15, 2005Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources.
- Administrative procedure
- Animals
- Cost effectiveness
- Decision making
- Department of the Interior
- Economic impact statements
- Economics and Public Finance
- Electronic government information
- Endangered species
- Environmental assessment
- Environmental Protection
- Federal-Indian relations
- Federal-local relations
- Federal-state relations
- Government Operations and Politics
- Government paperwork
- Government publicity
- Habitat conservation
- Indian lands
- Internet
- Landowners
- Law
- Licenses
- Local budgets
- Maps
- Minorities
- Native Americans
- Public Lands and Natural Resources
- Science, Technology, Communications
- State budgets
- State laws
- Surveys
- Web sites
- Wildlife conservation
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Mar 15, 2005Introduced in House
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