9669

• UCREFRP Catalog Number: 9669
• Author: U.S. Department of the Interior.
• Title: Policy and Guidelines for Planning and Coordinating Recovery of Endangered and Threatened Species.
• USFW Year: 1990.
• USFW - Doc Type: \
• Copyright Material: NO

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The Region 9 Division of Endangered Species has the responsibility to:

1. Provide guidelines and training on National policy, new legal
requirements, and the preparation of plans through written materials and
workshops.

2. Review, evaluate, and provide comments on the technical/agency or agency
drafts of new or revised plans regarding adherence to the recovery
guidelines and other Fish and Wildlife Service policies.

3. Compile Regional reports on recovery implementation progress, species
status (including status of recovered species), and status of draft,
revised, or approved recovery plans for Director's submission to
Congress.

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III. REPORTING AND TRACKING OF RECOVERY ACCOMPLISHMENTS

A recovery plan benefits a species only if it is implemented. As a
general rule, one person in the lead Region should be assigned the oversight
of each recovery plan. This individual should be responsible for
coordination with all parties participating in the species recovery efforts
and for preparing species-specific input for any required reports.

Three report requirements exist to ensure compliance with the Endangered
Species Act. These include: (1) Species Status Report (biennial), (2)
Recovery Expenditures Report (annual), and (3) Recovered Species Status
Report (annual). ADFWE will provide specific reQuirements for each report
to the ReQions. alonQ with any chanQes. each time a reoort is reQuired.
These reports serve as the basis for a system to track recovery progress and
expenditures. The following guidance should be followed within each Region.

A. Soecies Status Report

The Service is required, by Congress, to report every two years to
the Committee on Environment and Public Works of the Senate and the
Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries of the House of Representatives
on the status of efforts to develop and implement recovery plans for all
species listed pursuant to Section 4 of the Act and on the status of all
species for which such plans have been developed. The status of each listed
species will be tracked using a centralized database (developed by the
Region 9 Division of Endangered Species (DES)). Beginning in Fiscal Year
1990, each Region is responsible for sending to the ADFWE, on an biennial
basis, a Species Status Report (Parts I, II, and III) on each listed species
for which it has lead responsibility (See format, Appendix II). This Status
Report will include a tabular report (Parts I and II) and individual species

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