Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the Office of Management and Budget; Policy for Evaluation of Conservation Efforts When Making Listing Decisions (PECE)

Paperwork Continues for Conservation Plans

If you are a State, local, or Tribal government, a business, a nonprofit, or an individual involved in wildlife conservation, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is renewing the Policy for Evaluation of Conservation Efforts (PECE) information collection without changes. The agency says respondents must still submit conservation plans, monitoring results, and progress reports and estimates reporting takes 120 hours, monitoring 600 hours, and developing a conservation plan 2,000 hours per respondent, with a total estimated burden of 8,160 hours; comments are open until March 2, 2026. The notice also states there are no new non-hour monetary costs associated with this renewal.