8111

• UCREFRP Catalog Number: 8111
• Author: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and National Marine Fisheries Service.
• Title: Endangered Species Consultation Handbook
• USFW Year: 1998.
• USFW - Doc Type: Procedures for Conducting Consultation and Conference Activities Under Section 7 of the Endangered Species Act.
• Copyright Material: NO

* * * * * * Final ESA Section 7 Consultation Handbook, March 1998 * * * * * *
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Plant - any member of the plant kingdom, including seeds, roots, and other parts thereof.
[ESA §3(14)]
Population - "population," or "distinct population segment," are terms with specific meaning
when used for listing, delisting, and reclassification purposes to describe a discrete vertebrate
stock that may be added or deleted from the list of endangered and threatened species. The
term "population" will be confined to those distinct population segments officially listed, or
eligible for listing, consistent with section 4(a) of the Act and the Services' population policy.
[61 FR 4722-4725 (February 7, 1996)]
Preliminary biological opinion - the opinion issued as a result of early consultation. [50
CFR §402.02]
Programmatic consultation - consultation addressing an agency's multiple actions on a
program, regional or other basis. [Clarification of usage]
Proposed critical habitat - habitat proposed in the Federal Register to be designated as
critical habitat, or habitat proposed to be added to an existing critical habitat designation,
under section 4 of the Act for any listed or proposed species. [50 CFR §402.02]
Proposed species - any species of fish, wildlife or plant that is proposed in the Federal
• Re ister to be listed under section 4 of the Act. [50 CFR §402.02]
Reasonable and prudent alternatives - recommended alternative actions identified during
formal consultation that can be implemented in a manner consistent with the intended
purpose of the action, that can be implemented consistent with the scope of the Federal
agency's legal authority and jurisdiction, that are economically and technologically feasible,
and that the Director believes would avoid the likelihood of jeopardizing the continued
existence of listed species or the destruction or adverse modification of designated critical
habitat. [50 CFR §402.02]
Reasonable and prudent measures - actions the Director believes necessary or appropriate
to minimize the impacts, i.e., amount or extent, of incidental take. [50 CFR §402.02]
Recovery - improvement in the status of listed species to the point at which listing is no
longer appropriate under the criteria set out in section 4(a)(1) of the Act. [50 CFR §402.02]
Recovery unit - management subsets of the listed species that are created to establish
recovery goals or carrying out management actions. To lessen confusion in the context of
section 7 and other Endangered Species Act activities, a subset of an animal or plant species
that needs to be identified for recovery management purposes will be called a "recovery unit"
instead of a "population." [Clarification of usage] ,
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