AZ SCM1001

Urges the President and Congress of the United States to repeal the final rules expanding the definition of critical habitat under the Endangered Species Act, which took effect on March 14, 2016.

Objects to rules allowing the Fish and Wildlife Service and National Marine Fisheries Service to designate areas as critical habitat based on ephemeral species presence or difficult-to-establish habitats, even if currently unoccupied.

Criticizes rules that make it easier to designate unoccupied areas as critical habitat than occupied areas, and allow designation of entire states as critical habitat for certain species.

States that Arizona joined other states in filing a lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Alabama challenging the final rules as exceeding federal statutory and constitutional authority.

Directs the Arizona Secretary of State to transmit copies of this memorial to the President, Congress leadership, and all Arizona Members of Congress.