HR106119th Congress

LIST Act of 2025

Sponsored By: Representative Biggs (AZ)

Introduced

Summary

Make delisting more precise and faster when species have recovered or were wrongly listed. This bill would add a clear recovery trigger for removing species, set a fast path to correct erroneous listings, and penalize knowingly fraudulent petitions.

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  • Species and recovery: Would require the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the National Marine Fisheries Service to initiate delisting when recovery plan goals are met or when substantial scientific or commercial information shows the species has recovered. It would also allow delisting when no recovery goals exist but the species is judged recovered.
  • Five-year reviews and removal notices: Would require five-year status reviews to consider recovery-plan criteria, the statutory listing factors, a finding of error, or a determination the species is no longer endangered or threatened. If a species is removed the Federal Register notice would consist solely of a removal notice.
  • Erroneous listings and petitioners: Would create a 90-day rapid review to identify listings based on information that is inaccurate beyond reasonable scientific error, fraudulent, or misrepresentative. A positive error finding would not be subject to judicial review and anyone who knowingly filed such a petition would be barred from acting as an "interested person" on petitions for 10 years.

Bill Overview

Analyzed Economic Effects

2 provisions identified: 0 benefits, 0 costs, 2 mixed.

Clearer endangered species reviews and delistings

If enacted, the Secretary would have to start delisting when recovery plan goals are met. If no plan goals exist, the Secretary could delist when the species is judged recovered. If strong scientific or commercial data show recovery, the Department would remove the species and publish only a removal notice. Five-year reviews would have to use set options: follow recovery plan criteria, use listing factors if criteria are missing, find prior error, or find the species is no longer endangered or threatened.

Rapid removal of wrongful listings

If enacted, within 90 days of getting or producing certain flawed data, the Secretary would decide if a listing likely relied on it. If yes, the species would be removed and a notice published; that positive finding could not be reviewed in court. Negative findings could be reviewed. People who knowingly submit false or misleading information in a petition would lose “interested person” status for 10 years for later petitions.

Sponsors & CoSponsors

Sponsor

Biggs (AZ)

AZ • R

Cosponsors

There are no cosponsors for this bill.

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