"Congress could really help to ensure that early-and-often public engagement, through collaborative processes to find that balance."
"To follow on the last line of questioning about centralization of decisionmaking--Mr. Obermueller, if field managers and state directors are removed from the rule as the specific go-to people with dir..."
"I have been a little concerned about how multiple use is being interpreted."
"Madam Chair, I yield back my time."
"I'm hopeful that your wise admonitions and advice will change the way the Endangered Species Act is used in the future so species recovery is paramount to other considerations."
"I think that if the Fish and Wildlife Service truly wants to recover species, they need to tell us what they want or let the States and local governments figure out what they want so that they can man..."
"Congresswoman Lummis, definitely the conservation ethic has changed at the local level."
"Will the Agency provide a timeline for when future development occurs for the elements a species needs in critical habitat?"
"My biggest concern is the part that habitat could develop at some undetermined time in the future."
"I want to focus my questions on the rule allowing for critical habitat designation if the land merely has the potential to develop primary constituent elements."
"Could an adverse modification be used to stop stream diversions because the water is needed in a downstream critical habitat for a fish?"