Wildland Fire Management ESA Consultation Funding
Current understanding
To be populated as evidence accumulates.
Evidence log
- 2001-06-03 — To authorize the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture to use funds appropriated for wildland fire management in the Department of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2001, to reimburse the United States Fish and Wildlife Service and the National Marine Fisheries Service to facilitate the interagency cooperation required under the Endangered Species Act of 1973 in connection with wildland fire management.: Enacted 2001 statute authorizes Interior and Agriculture to use already-appropriated wildland fire management funds to reimburse FWS and NMFS for interagency ESA Section 7 consultations tied to fire work, and requires recipients to report purchases of foreign-made items. (novelty: 2)