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Endangered Species Act | A History of the Endangered Species Act of 1973 | 1988 ESA Amendment
Congress enacted the following amendments to the Endangered Species Act in 1988 :
- Monitoring candidate and recovered species was required, with adoption of emergency listing when there is evidence of significant risk [section 4];
- Several amendments dealt with recovery matters: 1) recovery plans were required to undergo public notice and comment, and affected Federal agencies were required to give consideration to those comments; 2) new subsection 4(g) required five years of monitoring recovered species; and 3) biennial reports were required on the development and implementation of recovery plans and on the status of all species with plans;
- A new section 18 required a report of all reasonably identifiable expenditures by the Federal government and States that received section 6 funds on a species-by-species basis on the recovery of endangered or threatened species; and
- Protection for endangered plants was extended to include a prohibition on malicious destruction on Federal land and other “take” that violates State law [section 9].
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