8063

• UCREFRP Catalog Number: 8063
• Author: Colorado River Fish and Wildlife Council.
• Title: Minutes, Colorado River Fish and Wildlife Council - April 22-23, 1998.
• USFW Year: 1998.
• USFW - Doc Type: Las Vegas, Nevada.
• Copyright Material: NO

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APPENDIX C
Establishes a Habitat Conservation Planning Loan Program under which the
Secretary may make no-interest loans to States and other political subdivisions to assist in the
development of conservation plans. Requires loans to be for ten-year terms, with shorter terms
if a conservation plan is not developed or a permit for incidental taking is not issued within
specified deadlines.
Creates a Habitat Conservation Insurance Program to pay the cost of additional
mitigation measures under an existing conservation plan or candidate conservation agreement to
minimize or mitigate adverse effects to a covered species to the extent such effects were not
anticipated at the time the plan or agreement was approved.
(Sec. 6) Requires, in civil and criminal actions, actions to enjoin persons alleged to be in
violation, or citizen suits brought under the Act, that the Secretary, Attorney General, or other
person, as appropriate, establish, using pertinent evidence based on scientifically valid
principles, that the acts of a person have caused or will cause the taking of an endangered or
threatened species.
(Sec. 7) Directs the Secretary to implement a private property owners education and
technical assistance program to: (1) inform the public about the Act; (2) respond to requests for
technical assistance from property owners interested in conserving listed species, those proposed
for listing, and candidate species; and (3) recognize exemplary efforts to conserve species on
private land.
(Sec. 8) Extends the authorization of appropriations to carry out the Act through FY 2003.
Makes additional authorizations of appropriations to carry out specified activities under this Act.
Requires each Secretary to submit to the Senate Committee on Environment and
Public Works and the House Committee on Resources: (1) an accounting for FY 1998 of funds
expended by the Departments of the Interior and Commerce, respectively, to carry out this Act;
and (2) a management plan describing the projected uses by such Departments of authorized
funds for FY 1999 through 2003.