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DEVELOPING A BIOLOGICAL ASSESSMENT |
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Under Section 7 of the Endangered Species Act (ESA), Federal agencies
are required to describe the
potential effects of their activities to threatened and endangered
species in a written report, called a
Biological Assessment (BA). The BA development process may be improved
if the natural resource agency (typically the Fish and Wildlife Service
or NOAA Fisheries) concisely describes the interagency
consultation process and needed elements of a BA, to the action agency.
This course is designed to
provide instruction and materials on the BA development process to
local action agencies. Emphasis
will be placed on efficiently developing BAs which provide adequate
information for the natural
resource agencies.
Who Should Attend: Federal employees, and their representatives,
who provide section 7 biological
assessments to the Fish and Wildlife Service and NOAA Fisheries.
Length: 2 days/16 hours
Objectives: Provide participants with the
instruction and training materials necessary to conduct BA
training for their local Federal action agencies so they
can more easily:
- develop a thorough project description,
- determine the project
action area,
- identify direct and indirect effects, to
species and critical habitat, as described in the ESA, and
- conduct
science-based effects determinations; and
- shorten consultation
time by providing federal agencies the information to facilitate
the consultation process.
| Availability: |
Annually |
| Contact: |
Donna Brewer |
| Branch: |
Conservation Science & Policy Branch |
| Phone: |
304/876-7451 |
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National Conservation Training Center
698 Conservation Way
Shepherdstown, West Virginia 25443
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