HOW TO RESPOND TO PROPOSED CHANGES TO THE ENDANGERED SPECIES ACT

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NYT: How to Respond to Proposed Changes to the Endangered Species Act
By The Editorial Board

A number of readers of (Wednesday's) editorial about the Bush administration’s proposed revisions to the Endangered Species Act have asked where they can express their opinions during the 30-day comment period.

(Link to editorial, "An Endangered Act": http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/13/opinion/13wed1.html)

The Bush administration is calling the changes “narrow” — but in reality they are a major gutting of the act, which would put endangered species at serious risk of being wiped out.

The Board learned today that the comment period will not formally begin until the proposed revisions appear in the Federal Register; we expect they will appear on Friday, Aug. 15.

After the proposed rule appears, there will be two ways in which to respond:

Online, at http://www.regulations.gov/search/index.jsp

By mail, to:

Public Comment Processing,
Attention: 1018-AT50
Division of Policy and Directives Management, US Fish and Wildlife Service
4401 North Fairfax Drive, Suite 222,
Arlington, VA 22203

http://theboard.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/08/13/how-to-respond-to-proposed-changes-to-the-endangered-species-act/?hp