Actions for Improve Collaboration on Project Design
- 41. - Establish specific game and wildlife population and habitat goals and objectives for oil and gas development projects
- 41.1 - Issue a joint Secretarial Order to form a team whose goal is to assess landscape-level assessment units on all federal, state, and local units
- 41.2 - Direct existing planning policy to reinforce the desirability of having all interested state and tribal governments involved in plan development
- 41.3 - Conduct pre-development assessments prioritized by energy potential
- 41.4 - Require consideration of state/tribal established fish and wildlife habitat/population goals and objectives in formal planning processes
- 41.5 - Require annual coordination and map sharing between state and federal agencies
- 41.6 - Require annual federal agency consultation with state agencies to review new data prior to new leasing offerings and decisions to avoid or mitigate impacts to wildlife
- 42. - Produce a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) between federal agencies and western governors
- 42.1 - Establish agreement between states and federal agencies to share uniform mapping information on wildlife migration corridors
- 42.2 - Seek opportunities to work with land trusts and NGOs for conserving wildlife corridors
- 42.3 - Create incentives for federal land managers to partner on wildlife corridor conservation with private landowners and industry
- 42.4 - Establish and utilize mitigation accounts for funding for wildlife friendly fencing and conservation easements
- 43. - Establish a formal working relationship between federal agencies and state wildlife managers
- 43.1 - Discuss specifics involving the AFWA and its Energy and Wildlife Policy Committee to determine needs and opportunities to refine EPACT 2005
- 43.2 - Establish and fund an energy liaison position among the BLM, USDA Forest Service, and AFWA
- 43.3 - Support an Energy Wildlife policy workshop focused on seeking solutions and promoting joint understanding of process, policies, goals, and objectives
- 44. - Authorize a program to formalize the BLM Pilot Oil and Gas Offices that were established by the Energy Policy Act, 2005
- 45. - Collaborate with industry and wildlife biologists on updating best management practices as new technologies are developed
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