Sec. 5. National fish, wildlife, and plants climate adaptation strategy
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The Panel shall adopt the Strategy to protect, restore, and conserve natural resources so that natural resources become more resilient, adapt to, and withstand the ongoing and expected impacts of extreme weather and climate change. Beginning in fiscal year 2017, and every 4 years thereafter, the Panel shall review and revise the Strategy to incorporate— new information regarding the ongoing and expected impacts of climate change on natural resources; and new advances in the development of natural resources adaptation strategies.
In revising the Strategy, the Panel shall— use the best available science; and provide public notice and opportunity for comment from all interested stakeholders. A revised Strategy shall— assess the vulnerability of natural resources to climate change, including short-term, medium-term, long-term, cumulative, and synergistic impacts; describe current, observation, and monitoring activities at the Federal, State, tribal, and local levels relating to the ongoing and expected impacts of climate change on natural resources; identify and prioritize research and data needs; identify natural resources likely to have the greatest need for protection, restoration, and conservation due to the ongoing and expanding impacts of extreme weather and climate change; include specific protocols for integrating natural resources adaptation strategies and activities into the conservation and management of natural resources by Federal agencies to ensure consistency across agency jurisdictions; identify opportunities for maintaining, restoring, or enhancing natural resources to reduce the risks of extreme weather and climate change on other vulnerable sectors of society; identify Federal policies and actions that may reduce resilience and increase the vulnerability of natural resources to extreme weather and climate change; include specific actions that Federal agencies shall take to protect, conserve, and restore natural resources to become more resilient, adapt to, and withstand the ongoing and expected impacts of climate change, including a timeline to implement those actions; include specific mechanisms for ensuring communication and coordination— among Federal agencies; and between Federal agencies and State natural resource agencies, territories of the United States, Indian tribes, private landowners, conservation organizations, and other countries that share jurisdiction over natural resources with the United States; include specific actions to develop and implement coordinated natural resources inventory and monitoring protocols through interagency coordination and collaboration with States and local governments, Indian tribes, and private organizations; and include procedures for guiding the development of detailed agency-specific adaptation plans required under section 7.
Consistent with other laws and Federal trust responsibilities concerning Indian land, each Federal agency represented on the Panel shall integrate the elements of the Strategy that relate to conservation, restoration, and management of natural resources into agency plans, environmental reviews, and programs. Each Federal agency represented on the Panel shall, on an annual basis, make available to the public a report documenting the actions of the agency in implementing the Strategy.
The Panel shall coordinate the implementation of the Strategy with non-Panel Federal agencies to achieve the national policy described in section 2(c).