ESA--habitat Conservation: Oversight Hearing Before the Committee on Resources, House of Representatives, One Hundred Fourth Congress, Second Session, on the Endangered Species Act with Regard to Section 10(a) Permits (habitat Conservation Plans) and Other Incentives, July 24, 1996, Volume 4 |
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... mitigation fee " of $ 5,500 per acre , or $ 82,500 to use her own private property . In Washington , this may be called fairness or flexibility . But in Texas , it's called extortion . Requiring landowners to pay a fee as a condition to ...
... mitigation fee " of $ 5,500 per acre , or $ 82,500 to use her own private property . In Washington , this may be called fairness or flexibility . But in Texas , it's called extortion . Requiring landowners to pay a fee as a condition to ...
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... mitigation fee to the govern- ment . Rather than pay the government a fee to develop their own property , they're willing to roll the dice and apply for a Section 10 ( a ) permit , which as I said a few minutes ago can take many , many ...
... mitigation fee to the govern- ment . Rather than pay the government a fee to develop their own property , they're willing to roll the dice and apply for a Section 10 ( a ) permit , which as I said a few minutes ago can take many , many ...
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... mitigation fee if it's high - grade habitat that's going to be developed , and basically join the program without doing an individual HCP . In Georgia is another example of how we're trying to make these plans work for small landowners ...
... mitigation fee if it's high - grade habitat that's going to be developed , and basically join the program without doing an individual HCP . In Georgia is another example of how we're trying to make these plans work for small landowners ...
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... mitigation / extortion payment tax of $ 1,500 to $ 5,500 per acre on the land , with habitat , around the designated preserve . In addition to this fee , 100 percent of the increase in future Travis County property tax revenue from the ...
... mitigation / extortion payment tax of $ 1,500 to $ 5,500 per acre on the land , with habitat , around the designated preserve . In addition to this fee , 100 percent of the increase in future Travis County property tax revenue from the ...
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... mitigation fees . There was never a single landowner that was within the preserve on any committee throughout the ... fee is paid ? Mr. KAM . No. Mr. POMBO . You have land that was inside the preserve , and what can you do with that ...
... mitigation fees . There was never a single landowner that was within the preserve on any committee throughout the ... fee is paid ? Mr. KAM . No. Mr. POMBO . You have land that was inside the preserve , and what can you do with that ...
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acres adaptive management additional mitigation measures affected species agencies agreement applicant approved assurances Austin benefit biological BRARY California Chairman Committee Cong CONGRE CONGRESS THE LIBRARY Don Young effect endangered or threatened Endangered Species Act environmental exemption extraordinary circumstances farmers and ranchers Federal Government Fish and Wildlife FRAMPTON Habitat Conservation Plan harvest HCP area HCP permittee HCP process HCP's impacts implementation incidental take permit issue land exchange LIBRARY OF CONGRESS listed species Lot owner marbled murrelet MAXXAM Inc mitigation fee monitoring multi-species NMFS northern spotted owl old growth PACIFIC LUMBER COMPANY peer review Plum Creek HCP Plum Creek Timber POMBO preserve private land private landowners property owners proposed protection RARY regulatory requirements Resources RESS Riverside safe harbor scientific small landowners SNAPE spotted owl Surprises survival and recovery threatened species Travis County U.S. Fish unlisted Washington watershed analysis Weyerhaeuser Wildlife Service
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Page 77 - conserve", "conserving", and "conservation" mean to use and the use of all methods and procedures which are necessary to bring any endangered species or threatened species to the point at which the measures provided pursuant to this Act are no longer necessary.
Page 74 - take" means to harass, harm, pursue, hunt, shoot, wound, kill, trap, capture, or collect, or to attempt to engage in any such conduct.
Page 79 - Secretary, insure that any action authorized, funded or carried out by such agency ... is not likely to jeopardize the continued existence of any endangered species or threatened species...
Page 87 - Whether failure to adopt additional conservation measures would appreciably reduce the likelihood of survival and recovery of the affected species in the wild. (6) Nothing in this rule will be construed to limit or constrain the Director, any Federal.
Page 30 - Act are to provide a means whereby the ecosystems upon which endangered species and threatened species depend may be conserved, to provide a program for the conservation of such endangered species and threatened species, and...
Page 85 - The Committee intends that the Secretary may utilize Ms provision [on HCPs] to approve conservation plans which provide long-term commitments regarding the conservation of listed as well as unlisted species and long-term assurances to the proponent of the conservation plan that the terms of the plan...
Page 74 - Secretary a conservation plan that specifies — (i) the impact which will likely result from such taking; (ii) what steps the applicant will take to minimize and mitigate such impacts, and the funding that will be available to implement such steps; (iii) what alternative actions to such taking the applicant considered and the reasons why such alternatives are not being utilized...
Page 70 - ... will, to the maximum extent practicable, minimize and mitigate the impacts of such taking; (iii) the applicant will ensure that adequate funding for the plan will be provided; (iv) the taking will not appreciably reduce the likelihood of the survival and recovery of the species in the wild...
Page 45 - M and that further mitigation requirements will only be imposed in accordance with the terms of the plan. In the event that an unlisted species addressed in an approved conservation plan is subsequently listed pursuant to the Act...
Page 109 - Department of the Interior 1849 C Street, NW Washington, DC 20240 Dear Mr.