It seems to me that it is kind of arbitrary.

I can assure you we are very interested in working with the Western Governors Association on common sense ESA reforms.

If it takes that long so successfully come up with 16 off the list of 1600, I think it is time for a change.

I appreciate your time and participation today so that we all can get a better understanding of the Endangered Species Act and how we can improve this legislation.

The polls show, this Gallup poll, the most recent one, it used to be that climate change or global warming was always No. 1 or No. 2.

We must address the fact that the Service spends more time and resources fighting lawsuits and listing species than actually recovering and delisting species.

What are the obstacles? Why does it take a lifetime to get this stuff off?

Thank you very much. I do think that we are going to be talking about the cumulative effect up here, even though the EPA may not see that as advisable.

Yet the formal State implementation deadline is 2018.

These regulations would cost hundreds of billions of dollars leaving stakeholders with an economic burden that will take generations to pay down.

So what you are saying is that in the event it is something that falls into this category that you are not going to have any kind of a punitive action against States who are unable to do something that falls into this category, is that…

I was one of the original co-sponsors of the 1990 Clean Air Act exemptions.