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Richard Pombo: “I have supported HCPs. As the gentleman is well aware, in my endangered species reform bill. We strengthened the HCP…”

On the recordJune 19, 1996
I have supported HCPs. As the gentleman is well aware, in my endangered species reform bill. We strengthened the HCP process so it would be capable of establishing HCPs that would actually work. My colleague, the gentleman from southern California [Mr. Brown], was down here before and he talked about the HCP process they established in southern California, which was a very painful and very expensive process that took years to come up with, and has shown everything that was wrong with the current Endangered Species Act in terms of an HCP. Again, the problem is not the major property owners. The problem is not the larger developers. The problem is the small people, the individual property owners that do not have the ability to do that.
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Richard Pombo
California
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Editor's note · Context

Discussing the challenges of the Habitat Conservation Plan (HCP) process in relation to the Endangered Species Act.

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