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U.S. GOVERNMENT
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113TH CONGRESS REPORT
2d Session HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 113-537
21ST CENTURY ENDANGERED SPECIES TRANSPARENCY
ACT
JULY 17, 2014.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of
the Union and ordered to be printed
Mr. HASTINGS of Washington, from the Committee on Natural
Resources, submitted the following
REPORT
together with
DISSENTING VIEWS
[To accompany H.R. 4315]
[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]
The Committee on Natural Resources, to whom was referred the
bill (H.R. 4315) 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, having considered the same, report favorably there-
on with an amendment and recommend that the bill as amended
do pass.
The amendment is as follows:
Strike all after the enacting clause and insert the following:
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 add-
ing 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 re-
quest 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..
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