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Sacramento Fish & Wildlife('"'ITIce Species List Page 3 of 4 and/or botanist, familiar with the habitat requirements of the species on your list, should determine whether they or habitats suitable for them may be affected by your project. 'We recommend that your surveys include any proposed and candidate species on your list. a See our Protocol and Recovery Permits es._ p g For plant surveys, we recommend using the Guidehhei for Conducting. and RepQgi.n_g Botanical Inventories. The results of your surveys should'be published in any environmental documents prepared for your project. Your Responsibilities Under the Endangered Species Act r All animals identified as listed above are fully protected under the Endangered Species Act of 1973, as amended. Section 9 of the Act and its implementing regulations prohibit'the take of a federally listed wildlife species. Take is defined by the Act as "to harass, harm, pursue, hunt, 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 sigr«ificantly impairing essential mbehavioral patterns,,including breeding,. ---feeding.-or shelter (So CFR §17.3). - Take incidental to an otherwise lawful activity may be authorized by one of two procedures: . If a Federal agency is involved with the permitting, funding, or carrying out of a project that may result in take, then that agency;must engage in a formal consultation with the Service. During formal consultation, the Federal agency, the applicant and the Service work together to avoid or-,minimize the impact on listed species and their habitat. Such consultation would result in a biological opinion by the Service 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. 1 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 minimizes the project's direct and indirect impacts to listed species and compensates for project-related loss of habitat. You should include the plan in any environmental documents you Fie. ' Critical Habitat When 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, air, light, other nutritional or physiological requirements; cover or shelter; and sites for breeding, reproduction, rearing of offspring, germination or seed dispersal. Although critical habitat may be designated on private or State lands, activities on these lands are not restricted unless there is Federal involvement i:n the activities or direct harm to listed wildlife. If any species,has proposed or designated critical habitat within a quad, there will be a separate line for this on the species list. 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 17.95). See our Map Room page. http://www.fws.gov/sacramento/es/spp_lists/auto_list.cfm 4/21/2010