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[Congressional Bills 113th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4315 Reported in House (RH)]

                                                 Union Calendar No. 403
113th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 4315

                          [Report No. 113-537]

 To amend the Endangered Species Act of 1973 to require publication on 
     the Internet of the basis for determinations that species are 
   endangered species or threatened species, and for other purposes.

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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 27, 2014

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

                             July 17, 2014

Additional sponsors: Mr. Lucas, Mr. Walden, Mr. Gosar, Mr. Cramer, Mr. 
 Cotton, Mr. McClintock, Mr. Olson, Mr. Pompeo, Mr. Tiberi, Mr. Jones, 
    Mr. Huelskamp, Mr. Tipton, Mr. Smith of Missouri, Mr. Franks of 
             Arizona, Mr. Pearce, and Mrs. McMorris Rodgers

                             July 17, 2014

  Reported with an amendment, committed to the Committee of the Whole 
       House on the State of the Union, and ordered to be printed
 [Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert the part printed 
                               in italic]
 [For text of introduced bill, see copy of bill as introduced on March 
                               27, 2014]

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                                 A BILL

 
 To amend the Endangered Species Act of 1973 to require publication on 
     the Internet of the basis for determinations that species are 
   endangered species or threatened species, 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 ``21st Century Endangered Species 
Transparency Act''.

SEC. 2. REQUIREMENT TO PUBLISH ON THE INTERNET THE BASIS FOR LISTINGS.

    Section 4(b) of the Endangered Species Act (16 U.S.C. 1533(b)) is 
amended by adding at the end the following:
    ``(9) The Secretary shall make publicly available on the Internet 
the best scientific and commercial data available that are the basis 
for each regulation, including each proposed regulation, promulgated 
under subsection (a)(1), except that, at the request of a Governor or 
legislature of a State, the Secretary shall not make available under 
this paragraph information regarding which the State has determined 
public disclosure is prohibited by a law of that State relating to the 
protection of personal information.''.
                                                 Union Calendar No. 403

113th CONGRESS

  2d Session

                               H. R. 4315

                          [Report No. 113-537]

_______________________________________________________________________

                                 A BILL

 To amend the Endangered Species Act of 1973 to require publication on 
     the Internet of the basis for determinations that species are 
   endangered species or threatened species, and for other purposes.

_______________________________________________________________________

                             July 17, 2014

  Reported with an amendment, committed to the Committee of the Whole 
       House on the State of the Union, and ordered to be printed
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