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The House Natural Resources Committee will hold a Full Committee markup on Wednesday, April 30th on four bills. These four bills, introduced in March, focus on common-sense, limited improvements and updates to the Endangered Species Act including transparency and species recovery.

WHAT: Natural Resources Full Committee Markup on:

• HR 4315 (Hastings), To amend the Endangered Species Act of 1973 to require publication on the Internet of the basis for determinations that species are endangered species or threatened species, and for other purposes. “21st Century Endangered Species Transparency Act”

• H.R. 4316 (Lummis), To amend the Endangered Species Act of 1973 to improve the disclosure of certain expenditures under that Act, and for other purposes. “Endangered Species Recovery Transparency Act”

• H.R. 4317 (Neugebauer), To amend the Endangered Species Act of 1973 to require disclosure to States of the basis of determinations under such Act, to ensure use of information provided by State, tribal, and county governments in decision making under such Act, and for other purposes. “State, Tribal, and Local Species Transparency and Recovery Act”

• H.R. 4318 (Huizenga), To amend the Endangered Species Act of 1973 to conform citizen suits under that Act with other existing law, and for other purposes. “Endangered Species Litigation Reasonableness Act”

WHEN: Wednesday, April 30, 2014 10:00AM

WHERE: 1324 Hearing Room in the Longworth House Office Building