Sec. 4. Greater Sage-Grouse Reporting Requirement
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Not later than December 15, 2014, the Secretary shall submit to the appropriate committees of Congress a report on the status of greater sage-grouse conservation efforts. In the report required under subsection (a), the Secretary shall include— a description of public and private programs and expenditures, including State and Federal Government agencies, relating to greater sage-grouse conservation; a description of State management plans, including plans that have been announced but not yet implemented; a description of Bureau of Land Management plans, or plans by any other land management agencies, relating to greater sage-grouse conservation; in accordance with subsection (c), a description of the metrics that, at the discretion of the Secretary, will be used to make a determination of whether the greater sage-grouse should be listed as threatened or endangered under the Endangered Species Act of 1973 (16 U.S.C. 1531 et seq.); any outcome under the programs, expenditures, or plans referred to in paragraphs
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(3)that can be measured by the metrics described in subsection (c); and any recommendations to Congress for legislative actions that could provide certainty to farmers, ranchers, developers, and small businesses and could assist in the conservation of the greater sage-grouse. The metrics referred to in subsection (b)(4) may include— the quantity of acres enrolled in sagebrush and habitat protection in conservation programs established under title XII of the Food Security Act of 1985 (16 U.S.C. 3801 et seq.) or other conservation programs of the Department of Agriculture, including conservation easements, land purchases or swaps, vegetation management or habitat enhancement programs, and fuels management programs; data on nonfire related habitat restoration efforts, including native, nonnative, and mixed seeding efforts; data on mine reclamation and subsequent restoration efforts intended to restore greater sage-grouse habitat; data on conifer removal; data on presuppression fire efforts, including— the number of acres associated with fuels management programs; and the number of miles associated with fire breaks; data on habitat restoration, including postfire restoration efforts involving native, nonnative, and mixed seeding; data on structure removal, power line burial, power line retrofitting or modification, fence modification, fence marking, and fence removal; for livestock and rangeland management, data on allotment closure and road closure; for travel management, data on road and trail closure and trail rerouting; data on greater sage-grouse translocation efforts, including the number of greater sage-grouse translocated, the age of each translocated greater sage-grouse, and the sex of each translocated greater sage-grouse; and any other data or metric the Secretary may examine in making the decision on whether to list the greater sage-grouse as a threatened or endangered species under the Endangered Species Act of 1973 (16 U.S.C. 1531 et seq.).
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