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Threatened and Endangered Species: At What Cost? The Corps of Engineers Looks at Expenditures and Priorities

机译:濒危物种:要付出什么代价?工程师团着眼于支出和优先事项

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Current political conditions, primarily budgetary uncertainty, and the related reluctance to make funding commitments for future generations, have raised questions about the costs of conservation and environmental protection that have not previously been asked. As Federal investments are scrutinized and budgets become ever more constrained, the costs associated with environmental requirements could begin to be of greater importance and to influence decisions on Federal projects. In response to concerns about the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Corps) spending under the Endangered Species Act (P.L. 93-205) (ESA), a limited investigation was performed to determine the accuracy of reported Corps expendi tures. The investigation showed that, for particular groups of species, actual conservation costs for threatened and endangered species may be twice the amounts previously reported in the annual ESA expenditure reporting to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. In light of this finding, the Corps has sought a means to provide more accurate and consistent reporting of expenditures for addressing threatened and endangered species. A Species Costs Template (template) has been developed to identify the types and magnitude of costs related to the ESA and to counteract the impediments (legal, institutional, and practical) to underreporting costs. The template will be used by the Corps for reporting ESA costs beginning with Fiscal Year 2005 (FY05) (reported in January 2006). Five broad categories of expenditures (effects determination costs, ESA protection and conservation costs, equipment costs, opportunity costs, and other species costs) are identified by the template.
机译:当前的政治条件,主要是预算的不确定性,以及相关的不愿为子孙后代做出资金承诺的问题,引起了人们对于养护和环境保护成本的质疑,这是以前从未提出过的。随着对联邦投资的审查和预算的日益严格,与环境要求相关的成本可能开始变得越来越重要,并影响到联邦项目的决策。为了回应对美国陆军工程兵(Corps)根据《濒危物种法》(P.L. 93-205)(ESA)的支出的担忧,进行了有限的调查以确定报告的军费开支的准确性。调查显示,对于特定种类的物种,受威胁和濒危物种的实际保护成本可能是先前在向美国鱼类和野生动物服务局报告的年度ESA支出中所报告数量的两倍。鉴于这一发现,兵团已寻求一种手段来提供更准确和一致的支出报告,以应对受威胁和濒危物种。已经开发了物种成本模板(模板),以识别与ESA相关的成本的类型和规模,并抵消报告不足的成本的障碍(法律,制度和实践)。从2005财政年度(2006财年)开始(2006年1月报告),该模板将被军团用于报告ESA成本。模板确定了五大类支出(影响确定成本,ESA保护和养护成本,设备成本,机会成本和其他物种成本)。

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