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John Fleming: “It is unclear why the Interior would propose a categorical exclusion for FWS's listing under the Lacey Act, based upon…”

On the recordSeptember 19, 2013
It is unclear why the Interior would propose a categorical exclusion for FWS's listing under the Lacey Act, based upon the premise that those listings will have no environmental impact when, by statute, all wildlife that is proposed to be listed under the Lacey Act must be shown to have an injurious environmental impact.
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John Fleming
Republican · Louisiana

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Fleming questions the rationale behind a proposed categorical exclusion concerning environmental impact.

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