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The ESA should be amended in a manner that:
Mandates the complete and meaningful consideration of the impacts the ESA-related action will
have on the welfare of the landowners, communities, and businesses potentially affected by the
action. Although the ESA presently requires economic consideration of critical habitat designations,
the Service routinely ignores its responsibilities in this regard, marginalizing the analysis by
imposing a "baseline approach." The Tenth Circuit Federal Court of Appeals completely and
unequivocally rejected this baseline approach in a recent decision.
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