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i shoot.. wound. kill. trap, capture. or collect" any such animal. Take may include significant habitat modification or degradation where it actually kills or injures wildlife by significantly impairing essential behavioral patterns. including breeding. feeding, or shelter(50 CFR §17.3). Take incidental to an otherwise lawful activity may be authorized by one of twop rocedures: If a Federal agency is involved with the permitting, funding, or carrying out of a project that t may result intake, then that agency must engage in a formal consultation with the Service. Such consultation would result in a biological opinion addressing the anticipated effect of the project on listed and proposed species. The opinion may authorize a limited level of incidental take. If no Federal agency is involved with the project, and federally listed species may be taken as part of the project, then you, the applicant, should apply for an incidental take permit. The Service may issue such a permit if you submit a satisfactory conservation plan for the species that would be affected by your project. Should your survey determine that federally listed or proposed species occur in the area and are likely to be affected by the project. we recommend that you work with this office and the California Department of Fish and Game to develop a plan that mitigates for the project's direct and indirect impacts to listed species and compensates for project-related loss of habitat. You should include the mitigation plan in any environmental documents you tile. Critical Habitat FWhen a species is listed as endangered or threatened. areas of habitat considered essential to its conservation may be designated as critical habitat. These areas may require special management � considerations or protection. They provide needed space for growth and normal behavior: food. water, E . air. light. other nutritional or physiological requirements; cover or shelter; and sites for breeding, reproduction. rearing of offspring. germination or seed dispersal. 1 F. Although critical habitat may be designated on private or State lands, activities on these lands are not restricted unless there is Federal involvement in the activities or direct harm to listed wildlife. F If any species has proposed or designated critical habitat within.a quad, there will be a separate line for this on the species list. Maps and boundary descriptions of the critical habitat may be found in the Federal Register. The information is also reprinted in the Code of Federal Regulations (50 CFR 1795). Candidate Species We recommend that you address impacts to candidate species. We put plants and animals on our candidate list when we have enough scientific information to eventually propose them for listing as threatened or endangered. By considering these species early in your planning process you may be able to avoid the problems that could develop if one of these candidates was listed before the end of F1 your project. I Your list may contain a section called Species of Concern. This term includes former category 2