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Migratory Bird Permits; Authorizing the Incidental Take of Migratory Birds

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Southern Environmental Law Center (SELC) filed 1 comment on this docket between Dec 6, 2021 and Dec 6, 2021. 49 other organizations filed here. The comment window closed 1698d ago.

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Dec 6, 2021· Comment from Southern Environmental Law Center· FWS-HQ-MB-2021-0105-11057

Please accept the attached comments submitted by the Southern Environmental Law Center on behalf of 35 organizations working to protect and restore the natural environment in the Southeast regarding the Fish and Wildlife Service's advance notice of proposed rulemaking and intent to prepare a National Environmental Policy Act document regarding incidental take under the Migratory Bird Treaty Act. We applaud FWS's return to its long-held and legally supported understanding that the MBTA does in fact prohibit incidental take. As we detail in the attached, this interpretation of the MBTA is supported by law and essential to the conservation of migratory bird species, particularly as they face accelerating threats in the Southeast and worldwide. We welcome this opportunity to support the Service's restoration of incidental take prohibitions, as well as the opportunity to provide input to guide the Service's consideration of an incidental take permitting program that will comply with the conservation purposes of the MBTA.

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Abstract

On October 4, 2021, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) published an advance notice of proposed rulemaking in the Federal Register. The Service is withdrawing this advance notice of proposed rulemaking, consistent with an order by the Secretary of the Interior.

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