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106TH CONGRESS REPORT
2d Session HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 106-1013
COMMON SENSE PROTECTIONS FOR ENDANGERED
SPECIES ACT
OCTOBER 26, 2000.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State
of the Union and ordered to be printed
Mr. YOUNG of Alaska, from the Committee on Resources,
submitted the following
REPORT
together with
DISSENTING VIEWS
[To accompany H.R. 3160]
The Committee on Resources, to whom was referred the bill
(H.R. 3160) to reauthorize and amend the Endangered Species Act
of 1973, having considered the same, report favorably thereon with-
out amendment and recommend that the bill do pass.
PURPOSE OF THE BILL
The purpose of H.R. 3160 is to reauthorize and amend the En-
dangered Species Act of 1973.
BACKGROUND AND NEED FOR LEGISLATION
H.R. 3160 amends the Endangered Species Act of 1973 (Public
Law 93-295, codified at 16 U.S.C. 1531-1543) which was enacted
to provide a means of preventing various forms of plants and ani-
mals from reaching the point of extinction. This law now imposes
rigid and comprehensive regulations on federal agencies, state and
local governments, and private citizens alike in order to protect
species in the United States and to some extent foreign countries
as well.
The Endangered Species Act (ESA) is administered by two sepa-
rate federal agencies: the Fish and Wildlife Service within the De-
partment of Interior and the National Marine Fisheries Service
within the Department of Commerce (Services). The basic frame-
work of the ESA includes the listing of a species as either endan-
gered or threatened, after which it is prohibited to take the spe-
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