Federal and State Endangered and Threatened Species Expenditures Fiscal Year 2001
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U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service Federal and State Endangered and Threatened Species Expenditures Fiscal Year 2001 January 1998 TABLE OF CONTENTS EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ...........................................................................................................................ii What is the purpose of this report?........................................................................................................ii What expenditures are reported? ..........................................................................................................ii What expenditures were formerly not included?....................................................................................ii What are the expenditures reported for FY 2001? ................................................................................ii How does the FY 2001 expenditure report compare to other years?...................................................iii ENDANGERED SPECIES EXPENDITURES FISCAL YEAR 2001 .................................................. 1 PURPOSE ............................................................................................................................................ 1 BACKGROUND.................................................................................................................................... 1 What does "Reasonably Identifiable Expenditures" mean?......................................................... 1 What is not included in the report? .............................................................................................. 2 What is included in the report? .................................................................................................... 2 SECTION 18(1), FEDERAL EXPENDITURES..................................................................................... 3 What expenditures are reported by the Fish and Wildlife Service? ............................................. 3 What expenditures are reported by other Federal agencies?...................................................... 3 SECTION 18(2), STATE EXPENDITURES.......................................................................................... 3 What is included in the State expenditures?................................................................................ 3 SUMMARY OF DATA........................................................................................................................... 4 What is the format for the report=s tables?................................................................................... 4 What are the expenditures reported for FY 2001?....................................................................... 4 The 10 listed entities with the highest reported expenditures in Fiscal Year 2001 ....................................................................................................................... 5 The 10 species with the highest reported expenditures in Fiscal Year 2001 ....................................................................................................................... 5 How do the expenditures compare among species? ................................................................... 6 COMPARISON TO PREVIOUS REPORTS......................................................................................... 6 Why are comparisons with other reports difficult? ....................................................................... 6 Forgone Revenues ...................................................................................................................... 7 Table A. OTHER ESA EXPENSES FOR BONNEVILLE POWER ADMINISTRATION (1993-2001; FROM BPA REPORTS)… ………………………………………………………...7 Table B. SUMMARY OF EXPENDITURES AND ASSOCIATED STATISTICS FROM FY 1989-2001 ........ 8 Table 1. FY 2001 Reported Expenditures for Endangered and Threatened Species, Not Including Land Acquisition ....................................... 9 Table 2. Species Ranked in Descending Order of Total FY 2001 Reported Expenditures, Not Including Land Acquisition......................... 45 Table 3. FY 2001 Reported Land Acquisition Expenditures For Endangered and Threatened Species….75 Appendix A. Supplemental Guidance for Reporting Expenditures for the Conservation of Endangered and Threatened Species .............................................................................................................. 82 Appendix B. Reports Provided by Other Federal Agencies ....................................................................... 85 Appendix C. Summary of Comments from Reporting Agencies for “Other ESA Expenses” Category………………………………………………………………………………………………………...157 ii EXECUTIVE SUMMARY What is the purpose of this report? Section 18 of the Endangered Species Act (Act) of 1973 requires the Secretary of the Interior (working through the Fish and Wildlife Service) to annually report certain expenditures for the conservation of threatened and endangered species. This report presents the reported expenditures for Fiscal Year 2001 (October 2000 - September 2001). What expenditures are reported? Beginning with this report, we have sought to more fully identify other Act-related expenditures by asking for expenditures not identifiable to specific individual species, in addition to the standard request. In the past and for this report, expenditures that are reasonably identifiable for a specific listed species have been reported. All Federal agencies and those States receiving section 6 grant-in-aid funds pursuant to the Act are asked to report. Since only a few foreign species are receiving expenditures from U.S. governmental agencies, we restrict these annual reports to a discussion concerning listed U.S. species (foreign species are tabulated as “Other ESA Expenses”). Expenditures are identified by listed entity, which may be a species, subspecies, Distinct Population Segment, or Evolutionarily Significant Unit as identified in 50 CFR 17.11 and 17.12. They are reported separately for the Service, the States, and in aggregate for all other reporting Federal agencies. The Service and 20 other Federal agencies identified expenditures for the conservation of individual threatened and endangered species. Two additional Federal agencies responded that their expenditures were not reasonably identifiable to specific individual species, and they could not provide data. We included the data from all Federal agencies in Appendix B. What expenditures were formerly not included? The reporting Federal and State agencies made a good faith effort to develop species-by-species expenditures for this report. However, a significant portion of threatened and endangered species conservation activities includes law enforcement, consultation, recovery coordination activities benefiting multiple species, and other actions that are not easily identifiable to specific individual species. Accounting procedures by all agencies for most staff salaries, operations, maintenance, and other support services are not recorded to specific individual species and were not reflected in the reported expenditures in past reports. These costs are included in this report for the first time as “Other ESA Expenses.” What are the expenditures reported for FY 2001? • Total Expenditures reported were $2,442,355,500, of which $777,760,141 was reported as expenditures for specific individual species, including $130,180,425 for land acquisition; and $1,664,595,359 was reported as “Other ESA Expenses” (not identified to species), of which $47,302,545 was for land acquisition. • Table 1 shows expenditures reasonably identifiable to specific individual species, for each species, by the Service, other Federal agencies collectively, and the States collectively. Non-specific “Other ESA Expenses” by each of these categories are shown at the end of this Table. Table 2 displays species-specific expenditures by species expenditure rank, in descending order. Table 3 displays land acquisition expenditures, and individual agency reports are in Appendix B. C The percent of threatened and endangered species with expenditures reported: 87.6 (not including “Other ESA Expenses”) iii C The median and maximum general (non-land) expenditure for species with at least $100 reported expenditures (not including “Other ESA Expenses”)(Table B): Median - $17,000 Maximum species total - $46,782,971 C The range of general (non-land) expenditures for all species: $0 to $46,782,971 (Table 2) (not including “Other ESA Expenses”) • The number of species with general (non-land) expenditures exceeding $1 million (not including “Other ESA Expenses”): 84 species (including 5 with both endangered and threatened vertebrate populations)(Table 2) C The number of species with 50 percent of expenditures: 16 (1.2 percent of the ESA list) (Table 2) (not including “Other ESA Expenses”) C The number of species with 90 percent of expenditures: 80 (6.3 percent of the ESA list) (Table 2) (not including “Other ESA Expenses”) How does the FY 2001 expenditure report compare to other years? Due to differences in reporting methods, this report cannot be easily compared to prior expenditure reports. These year-to-year differences include changes in the number of States reporting, changes in how expenditures are calculated, changes in the agencies= ability to track expenditures, and changes in the number of listed species. Therefore, real dollar increases or decreases cannot be accurately calculated or inferred from the overall or individual totals. This year for