I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Page 823, after line 20, insert the following: SEC. __. IMPLEMENTATION OF LESSER PRAIRIE-CHICKEN RANGE-WIDE CONSERVATION PLAN AND OTHER CONSERVATION MEASURES. (a) Definitions.--In this section: (1) Candidate conservation agreements.--The terms ``Candidate Conservation Agreement'' and ``Candidate and Conservation Agreement With Assurances'' have the meaning given those terms in-- (A) the announcement of the Department of the Interior and the Department of Commerce entitled ``Announcement of Final Policy for Candidate Conservation Agreements with Assurances'' (64 Fed. Reg. 32726 (June 17, 1999)); and (B) sections 17.22(d) and 17.32(d) of title 50, Code of Federal Regulations (as in effect on the date of enactment of this Act). (2) Range-wide plan.--The term ``Range-Wide Plan'' means the Lesser Prairie-Chicken Range-Wide Conservation Plan of the Western Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies, as endorsed by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service on October 23, 2013, and published for comment on January 29, 2014 (79 Fed. Reg. 4652). (3) Secretary.--The term ``Secretary'' means the Secretary of the Interior.…
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