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ESA Energy Bill Conference Letter

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ESA Energy Bill Conference Letter

ESA Energy Bill Conference Letter

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ga =. Wnited States Senate October 5, 2016 ‘The Honorable Lisa Murkowski ‘The Honorable Maria Cantvell CCainan, Senate Commits on Energy Ranking Member, Senate Commitee on and Natural Resources Energy end Natal Rsourcss 109 Hat Senate Ofiee Bailing SII Hart Senate Office Building ‘Washington, De 20515 Washingon, DC20315 ‘Dear Csieman Murkowski end Ranking Member Cantwell We greatly appreciate your leadership roles in shepherding the Energy Policy Modernization Act ‘of 2016 (S. 2012) through the Senate, and your efforts to carefully craft a broadly supported bill ‘that marks te first comprehensive energy package in nearly a decade. But while S.2012 represents a bipartisan approuch to updating our nation’s energy policy, we are deeply concemed with a number of extreme measures contained in the House-passed energy package that represent attacks against key environmental laws that protect our nation's wildlife, Te House-amended versions rife with riders that would undermine our shared energy priorities, as well as brazen atempts to dismantle some of our nation’s foundational ‘environmental laws, including the Clean Air Act, the Clean Water Act, the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), and the Endangered Species Act (ESA), We're confident you are already well aware of these harmful environmental provisions but with the Senate and House Conference Committee negotiations formally underway, we wanted to underscore several eitical attacks against wildlife in paricular~ specifically provisions within the eotroversial “Sportsmen's Heritage and Recreational Enhancement Act” (H.R. 2406) and the so-called “Western Water and American Food Security Act” (H.R. 2898), which bath passed the House along party lines. We urge yeu to flatly reject attempis to include any anti-wildlite provisions from H.R. 2406 and H.R. 2898 — Division Titles [and I of the House energy bill in the final conference report ‘Among the most harmful willie provisions flde into the House eneray package ae atemps to: expand the use of dangercus and indiscriminate taps on millions of aces of public lands by {aking the unprecedented step of coin trapping asa form of hunting: revoke protections for imperil pray wolf populatians an pete Rte jatcn rue; cure vital FSA protection for salmon and other native fish in Californias reduce water deliveries to national ‘wildlife refuges during dry years; waive covironmenal review under NEPA for ll management activities within the National Wife Refuge System; require the Fish and Wilde Service WS) to accommodate certain incompatible uses on national wildlife refuges circumvent the [NEPA process by foreing the National Park Service (NPS) tallow private hunters to Kill oxherwise protected bison as part of certain “management” pans; permanently prevent numerous goverment agencies from assessing the rsks posed by lead ammunition; gut the Fish and ‘Wilde Service's historic rle to combat wilde weatficking and save elephants fom extinction by restricting the sale of ivery; promote the controversial practice of deer-

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