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ID SJM105
JM
Status
3/5/2012
Primary Sponsor
State Affairs Committee
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AI Summary
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Urges Congress to reexamine, reform, and reauthorize the Endangered Species Act, National Environmental Policy Act, and Equal Access to Justice Act to limit court involvement in species and public land management decisions.
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Calls on the President to direct federal land management agencies to use cost-benefit analysis, peer review of science, and multiple-use principles in their decision-making processes.
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Requests that the congressional delegation urge federal land management agencies to maximize local community involvement in federal land management decisions through their discretionary authority.
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Expresses concerns that potential listings of wolves, sage grouse, and slickspot peppergrass threaten Idaho ranchers' economic livelihoods and that U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service regulations on Lake Lowell, Lake Walcott, and caribou habitat in Boundary and Bonner Counties lack adequate scientific justification.
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Notes that the Endangered Species Act authorization expired on October 1, 1992, and directs the Secretary of the Senate to forward the memorial to Congress and Idaho's congressional delegation.
Legislative Description
Stating findings of the Legislature and urging Congress to reexamine, reform and reauthorize the Endangered Species Act, the National Environmental Policy Act, the Equal Access to Justice Act and any other federal law that disrespects the role of states and local governments in land management decisions and leads to costly and frivolous lawsuits that strip authority from Congress and place it in the hands of the judiciary.
FEDERAL LAW
Last Action
Rpt delivered to Secretary of State on 03/28
3/28/2012