Title: State, Tribal, and Local Species Transparency and Recovery Act
Policy area: Environmental Protection

Summary:
State, Tribal, and Local Species Transparency and Recovery Act
This bill amends the Endangered Species Act of 1973 to require the Department of the Interior or the Department 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.
The appropriate department must use data submitted by a state, tribal, or county government in making such a determination.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1274 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1274

To amend the Endangered Species Act of 1973 to require making available 
   to States affected by determinations that species are endangered 
   species or threatened species all data that is the basis of such 
                determinations, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 1, 2017

  Mr. Newhouse (for himself, Mr. Tipton, Mr. Abraham, Mr. Gosar, Mr. 
Pearce, Mr. Harper, Mr. Yoho, Mr. Jones, Mr. Marshall, and Mr. Cramer) 
 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 making available 
   to States affected by determinations that species are endangered 
   species or threatened species all data that is the basis of such 
                determinations, 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. DECISIONAL TRANSPARENCY AND USE OF STATE, TRIBAL, AND LOCAL 
              INFORMATION.

    (a) 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)''.
    (b) Ensuring Use of State, Tribal, and Local Information.--
            (1) In general.--Section 3 of the Endangered Species Act of 
        1973 (16 U.S.C. 1532) is amended--
                    (A) by redesignating paragraphs (2) through (21) as 
                paragraphs (3) through (22), respectively; and
                    (B) 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.''.
            (2) 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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