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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> APWG [mailto:apwg-bounces@lists.plantconservation.org]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Robert Layton Beyfuss<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Saturday, July 13, 2013 7:13 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> John; apwg@lists.plantconservation.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [APWG] proposal to speed listing injurious species: US fish and wildlife service</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"; color:black">So, some nameless bureaucrat(s) at USFW gets to decide what is injurious or not, without any review process at all? All in the name of expediency? Sounds like the Patriot Act
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"; color:black">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"; color:black"> APWG [apwg-bounces@lists.plantconservation.org]
on behalf of John [jmbarr@academicplanet.com]<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, July 11, 2013 12:13 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:apwg@lists.plantconservation.org">apwg@lists.plantconservation.org</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [APWG] proposal to speed listing injurious species: US fish and wildlife service</span><span style="color:black"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt; color:black"> Herp digest sent this along. If you are interested or concerned with stopping non-native invasives BEFORE they reach the shores, then this should interest you.</span></b><span style="font-size:13.5pt; color:black"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt; color:black">john in austin</span></b><span style="font-size:13.5pt; color:black"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt; color:black">Proposal Seeks to Improve the Listing Process for Injurious Species, Says U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service</span></b><span style="font-size:13.5pt; color:black"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt; color:black">Press Release 7/1/13--A quick response to preventing harmful species from entering the United States and crossing state lines is the intent behind today’s proposal by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife
Service (Service) to refine the environmental review process when listing species as injurious wildlife.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt; color:black">The Service is proposing an exemption known as a “categorical exclusion” that would generally preclude the need for preparing an environmental</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt; color:black">assessment under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) for the action of listing species as “injurious.” Injurious species can spread</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt; color:black">quickly across the U.S. landscape, potentially harming native wildlife and their habitats as well as human activities. For example, the injurious</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt; color:black">zebra mussel, a tiny but prolific invertebrate from Eurasia, can clog water intake cooling pipes, shutting down some electric power plants in the</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt; color:black">Under federal law (the Lacey Act), the Service can “prescribe by regulation those wild mammals, wild birds, fish, mollusks, crustaceans, amphibians and</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt; color:black">horticulture, or forestry, or to the wildlife or wildlife resources of the United States.” A species designated as injurious would then be prohibited</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt; color:black">from being imported into the United States or transported across state lines. Currently, the listing process can take several years because it</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt; color:black">includes many steps, in particular a review under NEPA that includes a rather lengthy environmental assessment. During this time, a species that</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt; color:black">could have been stopped entering the United States or a crossing a state line could become irreversibly invasive.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt; color:black">All the environmental assessments the Service has prepared to date have concluded that the action of listing the species as injurious would have no</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt; color:black">having no effect on the environment.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt; color:black">In a notice appearing in today’s *Federal Register*, the Service proposes a process that would generally require an abbreviated review for the</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt; color:black">regulatory action that places a species on a federal list of injurious species. This categorical exclusion, if finalized, will help streamline the</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt; color:black">The *Federal Register* notice opens a 30-day public comment period ending on July 31, 2013. The notice can be found at</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><u><span style="font-size:10.5pt; color:#0A2199"><a href="http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2013-07-01/pdf/2013-15707.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2013-07-01/pdf/2013-15707.pdf</a></span></u><span style="font-size:10.5pt; color:black"> .
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<p class="MsoNormal"><u><span style="font-size:10.5pt; color:#0A2199"><a href="http://www.fws.gov/injuriouswildlife/catex" target="_blank">http://www.fws.gov/injuriouswildlife/catex</a></span></u><span style="font-size:10.5pt; color:black"> .</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt; color:#0A2199"></span></p>
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