On July 25, 2018, the United States Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s National Marine Fisheries Service (NOAA Fisheries) jointly proposed revisions to the Federal Endangered Species Act’s Implementing Regulations via publication of three (3) separate Notices of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) in the Federal Register.
Links to each of the NPRMs are provided below:
- Revision of the Regulations for Listing Species and Designating Critical Habitat– Docket Number: FWS-HQ-ES-2018-0006
- Revision of the Regulations for Prohibitions to Threatened Wildlife and Plants– Docket Number: FWS-HQ-ES-2018-0007
- Revision of Regulations for Interagency Cooperation– Docket Number: FWS-HQ-ES-2018-0009
Comments on the Notices are due by September 24, 2018.
Instructions for commenting are provided in each Federal Register notice linked above.