[Congressional Bills 113th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2084 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

113th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 2084

To amend the Endangered Species Act of 1973 to require the Secretary of 
 the Interior to publish and make available for public comment a draft 
  economic analysis at the time a proposed rule to designate critical 
                         habitat is published.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             March 5, 2014

Mr. Pryor (for himself and Ms. Landrieu) introduced the following bill; 
 which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and 
                              Public Works

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the Endangered Species Act of 1973 to require the Secretary of 
 the Interior to publish and make available for public comment a draft 
  economic analysis at the time a proposed rule to designate critical 
                         habitat is published.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Community Protection Act of 2014''.

SEC. 2. DRAFT ECONOMIC ANALYSIS FOR CRITICAL HABITAT DESIGNATION.

    Section 4(b)(2) of the Endangered Species Act of 1973 (16 U.S.C. 
1533(b)(2)) is amended--
            (1) in the first sentence, by striking ``(2) The Secretary 
        shall'' and inserting the following:
            ``(2) Critical habitat designation.--
                    ``(A) In general.--The Secretary shall'';
            (2) in the second sentence, by striking ``The Secretary 
        may'' and inserting the following:
                    ``(B) Exclusions.--The Secretary shall''; and
            (3) by adding at the end the following:
                    ``(C) Draft economic analysis.--At the time a 
                proposed rule to designate critical habitat is 
                published, the Secretary shall publish and make 
                available for public comment a draft analysis that--
                            ``(i) examines the public and private 
                        economic effects of the proposed designation, 
                        including any effects on--
                                    ``(I) possible uses of land and 
                                property values;
                                    ``(II) employment; and
                                    ``(III) revenues available for 
                                State and local governments; and
                            ``(ii) is quantitative.''.
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