Comments closed June 10
Oppose Foreign Endangered Species
Fish and Wildlife Service
- What
- The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is inviting public comment on permit applications to conduct activities involving foreign endangered species under the Endangered Species Act. These permits would authorize activities that are otherwise prohibited by the ESA, such as import, export, or trade of listed foreign species. Conservation professionals, researchers, and anyone working with foreign endangered species are directly affected by this process.
- Where
- The notice names no place; see the agency’s own words under Case.
- How much
- We have no figure for this fight yet; the agency’s own words are under Case.
- Decided
- Comments closed June 10, 2026. No decision document is on file yet.Date from Federal Register ↗, read October 29, 2026.
Where these four lines come from
- WhatOur summary of the Federal Register 2026-09234 ↗. Check it against the agency’s own words under Case.
- WhereThe places and states the notice names, as PLAN read them.
- How muchNo verified figure is on the record for this fight.
- DecidedJune 10, 2026, from Federal Register, the notice's DATES field (federalregister.gov API) ↗: “Comments submitted electronically using the Federal eRulemaking Portal (see ADDRESSES, below) must be received by 11:59 pm eastern time on the closing date.”. Read October 29, 2026. The decision document is the one on file in PLAN’s record.
- Read from PLAN’s record November 9, 2026.
What the proposal said, and what the decision did
No figure from the proposal has been checked against the decision on this fight yet. What the record does hold is the issues ledger below.
No decision document is on PLAN’s record for this fight yet. When the agency’s decision lands, what it answered goes here.
Affects public lands
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is inviting public comment on permit applications to conduct activities involving foreign endangered species under the Endangered Species Act. These permits would authorize activities that are otherwise prohibited by the ESA, such as import, export, or trade of listed foreign species. Conservation professionals, researchers, and anyone working with foreign endangered species are directly affected by this process.
In the agency’s own words
We, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service), invite the public to comment on applications to conduct certain activities with foreign species that are listed as endangered under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). With some exceptions, the ESA prohibits activities with listed species unless Federal authorization is issued that allows such activities. The ESA also requires that we invite public comment before issuing permits for any activity otherwise prohibited by the ESA with respect to any endangered species.
Who signs it
The notice names no signer PLAN could read. PLAN names a decision-maker only when the document names one.
The ground
The window has closed, so there’s no watch to set on it here.
In court on this ground
This fight isn’t bound to a land unit in PLAN’s record yet, so there are no court cases to show for its ground.
Who holds the vote
PLAN’s record doesn’t tie a member of Congress to this fight yet. The scorecard grades the votes and bills that decide public lands; nothing joins a vote or a bill to this decision, so there’s no member to name here without guessing.
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