Title: A bill to amend the Forest and Rangeland Renewable Resources Planning Act of 1974 and the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 to provide that the Secretary of Agriculture and the Secretary of the Interior are not required to reinitiate consultation on a land management plan or land use plan under certain circumstances, and for other purposes.
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources

Summary:
This bill specifies that neither the Forest Service nor the Department of the Interior may be required to reinitiate consultation on a land management plan based on new information relating to a threatened or endangered species or a critical habitat.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 4057 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 4057

 To amend the Forest and Rangeland Renewable Resources Planning Act of 
1974 and the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 to provide 
that the Secretary of Agriculture and the Secretary of the Interior are 
 not required to reinitiate consultation on a land management plan or 
   land use plan under certain circumstances, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             June 24, 2020

    Mr. Daines (for himself, Mr. Risch, Mr. Crapo, and Mr. Cramer) 
introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the 
               Committee on Environment and Public Works

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend the Forest and Rangeland Renewable Resources Planning Act of 
1974 and the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 to provide 
that the Secretary of Agriculture and the Secretary of the Interior are 
 not required to reinitiate consultation on a land management plan or 
   land use plan under certain circumstances, 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. NO ADDITIONAL CONSULTATION REQUIRED.

    (a) Forest Service Plans.--Section 6(d) of the Forest and Rangeland 
Renewable Resources Planning Act of 1974 (16 U.S.C. 1604(d)) is amended 
by adding at the end the following:
            ``(3) No additional consultation required after new 
        information becomes available.--Notwithstanding any other 
        provision of law, the Secretary shall not be required to 
        reinitiate consultation under section 7(a)(2) of the Endangered 
        Species Act of 1973 (16 U.S.C. 1536(a)(2)) or section 402.16 of 
        title 50, Code of Federal Regulations (or a successor 
        regulation), on a land management plan approved, amended, or 
        revised under this section on the basis of new information 
        relating to a species listed as threatened or endangered or 
        critical habitat designated under that Act (16 U.S.C. 1531 et 
        seq.).''.
    (b) Bureau of Land Management Plans.--Section 202 of the Federal 
Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 (43 U.S.C. 1712) is amended by 
adding at the end the following:
    ``(g) No Additional Consultation Required After New Information 
Becomes Available.--Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the 
Secretary shall not be required to reinitiate consultation under 
section 7(a)(2) of the Endangered Species Act of 1973 (16 U.S.C. 
1536(a)(2)) or section 402.16 of title 50, Code of Federal Regulations 
(or a successor regulation), on a land use plan approved, amended, or 
revised under this section on the basis of new information relating to 
a species listed as threatened or endangered or critical habitat 
designated under that Act (16 U.S.C. 1531 et seq.).''.
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