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ENDANGERED SPECIES ACT

REAUTHORIZATION

THURSDAY, AUGUST 3, 1995

U.S. SENATE,

COMMITTEE ON ENVIRONMENT AND PUBLIC WORKS,
SUBCOMMITTEE ON DRINKING WATER, FISHERIES AND

WILDLIFE, Washington, DC.

INNOVATION, HABITAT RECOVERY, AND PRIVATE
PROPERTY RIGHTS

The subcommittee met, pursuant to recess, at 9:04 a.m. in room 406, Senate Dirksen Building, Hon, Dirk Kempthorne (chairman of the subcommittee) presiding.

Present: Senators Kempthorne, Thomas, Warner, Reid, Lautenberg, and Chafee [ex officio].

OPENING STATEMENT OF HON. DIRK KEMPTHORNE,
U.S. SENATOR FROM THE STATE OF IDAHO

Senator KEMPTHORNE. Ladies and gentlemen, I'll call this hearing to order. I'd like to welcome all of you to today's hearing and to say to all of our panelists who will be giving us their thoughts this morning, we welcome you and we thank you for being here as well.

Today's hearing seeks out the best and the brightest ideas for making innovation, incentive, habitat recovery and respecting private property, vital parts of the Endangered Species Act, a law that is now needlessly punitive in its application and enforcement. The message that ESA has too much regulation, too much control, too much government-has come through loud and clear in the hearings that we have held to date.

People who live with the ESA are angry with how the Government uses it against them. The Endangered Species Act has failed because it relies too often on untested science, problems with administrative action, and excludes States and local government from important decisions. Nearly every witness has said ESA needs changes, from the unemployed timber worker in Idaho to the Secretary of the Interior, there is agreement that the Act should be reformed.

At the same time, all of our witnesses want to save endangered plant and wildlife that make the world we share so enriching. ESA must be reformed. I have described myself on different occasions as a pro-business environmentalist. As a result of what I've heard so far in the hearings, I will tell you that I am also a pro-family environmentalist. For too long, the Act has carelessly disregarded the

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