{"id":680,"date":"2018-07-23T08:30:00","date_gmt":"2018-07-23T12:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/darwin.eeb.uconn.edu\/uncommon-ground\/?p=680"},"modified":"2018-07-22T11:17:17","modified_gmt":"2018-07-22T15:17:17","slug":"proposed-revisions-to-regulations-implementing-the-us-endangered-species-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darwin.eeb.uconn.edu\/uncommon-ground\/blog\/2018\/07\/23\/proposed-revisions-to-regulations-implementing-the-us-endangered-species-act\/","title":{"rendered":"Proposed revisions to regulations implementing the US Endangered Species Act"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The US Fish &amp; Wildlife Service and the National Marine Fisheries Service are charged with implementing the US Endangered Species Act. On Wednesday, they will publish <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fws.gov\/endangered\/improving_ESA\/regulation-revisions.html\">three proposed rules in the Federal Register<\/a> that modify existing regulations by which they implement the act. The proposed rules deal specifically with<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Criteria for listing of species as endangered or threatened and for designation of critical habitat,<\/li>\n<li>Aligning the way in which protections to threatened species are applied between USFWS and NMFS, and<\/li>\n<li>Changing requirements and procedures associated with interagency cooperation on activities that affect endangered species.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you are interested in how the Endangered Species Act is implemented in the United States, I urge you to read the proposed changes. If you want to comment on them, you have two options (on or after Wednesday, 25 July):<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Go to the Federal eRulemaking Portal (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.regulations.gov\">http:\/\/www.regulations.gov<\/a>), enter FWS-HQ-ES-2018-0006 in the search box, click on the \u201cProposed Rules\u201d link, click on \u201cComment Now!\u201d, and submit your comment.<\/li>\n<li>Deliver a hard copy of you comments by US mail or hand delivery to\n<ul>\n<li>Public Comments Processing, Attn: FWS\u2013HQ\u2013ES\u20132018\u20130006; U.S. Fish &amp; Wildlife Service, MS: BPHC, 5275 Leesburg Pike, Falls Church, VA 22041\u20133803<\/li>\n<li>National Marine Fisheries Service, Office of Protected Resources, 1315 East West Highway, Silver Spring, MD 20910.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>If you submit comments, they will be posted at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.regulations.gov\">http:\/\/www.regulations.gov<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I expect to review the proposed changes over the next few weeks and to post my comments on each of the proposals here. Then I\u2019ll collect them into a single comment and post them at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.regulations.gov\">http:\/\/www.regulations.gov<\/a>. If you read my comments and disagree, please explain how and why you disagree in the comments. Your comments will make my the comments I share with USFWS and NMFS much better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US Fish &amp; Wildlife Service and the National Marine Fisheries Service are charged with implementing the US Endangered Species Act. On Wednesday, they will publish three proposed rules in&#8230; <a class=\"read-more-button\" href=\"https:\/\/darwin.eeb.uconn.edu\/uncommon-ground\/blog\/2018\/07\/23\/proposed-revisions-to-regulations-implementing-the-us-endangered-species-act\/\">Read more &gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27],"class_list":["post-680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-endangered-species","tag-science-policy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/darwin.eeb.uconn.edu\/uncommon-ground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/darwin.eeb.uconn.edu\/uncommon-ground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/darwin.eeb.uconn.edu\/uncommon-ground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darwin.eeb.uconn.edu\/uncommon-ground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darwin.eeb.uconn.edu\/uncommon-ground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=680"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/darwin.eeb.uconn.edu\/uncommon-ground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":683,"href":"https:\/\/darwin.eeb.uconn.edu\/uncommon-ground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680\/revisions\/683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/darwin.eeb.uconn.edu\/uncommon-ground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darwin.eeb.uconn.edu\/uncommon-ground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darwin.eeb.uconn.edu\/uncommon-ground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}