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RCED-96-34R 1 (1995-12-21)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaclaj0001 and id is 1 raw text is: United States GAO General Accounting Office Washington, D.C. 20548 Resources, Community, and Economic Development Division B-270461 December 21, 1995 The Honorable Don Young Chairman, Committee on Resources House of Representatives Dear Mr. Chairman: A major goal of the Endangered Species Act is to achieve the recovery of species so that they no longer require protection. Consistent with this goal, the act calls for the Department of the Interior's U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) and the Department of Commerce's National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), the two agencies with primary responsibility for carrying out the act, to prepare plans identifying the actions needed to achieve species recovery goals and to estimate the costs associated with such actions. As part of your Committee's oversight of the act and its reauthorization, you asked that we provide information concerning species protected under the act. Specifically, we are reporting on (1) estimates of the costs and time the responsible parties will need to recover selected species, including the costs of taking the most important recovery actions, and (2) FWS' and NMFS' perspective on the recovery cost estimates contained in species recovery plans. The enclosure to this report provides the information you requested for 88 species protected under the act. We compiled the information from our review of 58 approved recovery plans that list and describe the various actions,' and their estimated costs, that are to support the recovery of these species. We also interviewed FWS and NMFS officials who are responsible for preparing, issuing, and implementing recovery plans to obtain their views on the reasonableness of the recovery cost estimates contained in the plans. According to these officials, the cost estimates contained in recovery plans are highly subjective, based usually on the best guesses of the plans' authors and not on rigorous analyses. As a result, 'Some plans address the recovery of more than one species. GAO/RCED-96-34R, Estimated Costs to Recover Protected Species

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