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U.S. Fish And Wildlife Service to Revise Regulatory Standard for Actions Affecting Critical Habitat Under the Endangered Species Act
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (the Service) has begun to revise regulations that deal with perhaps the most contentious provision of the Endangered Species Act (ESA) – the standard for actions that may impact habitat critical for the recovery of species listed under the ESA. On December 9, 2004, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service sent a memorandum to its regional directors requiring staff to apply a new framework for how the Service analyzes such impacts in actions authorized by other feder
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