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This Act may be cited as the . Endangered Species Act Amendments of 2020 The table of contents for this Act is as follows: Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents. TITLE I—Technical corrections of gender-specific pronouns Sec. 101. Technical corrections of gender-specific pronouns. TITLE II—Enhancing the Federal-State conservation partnership Sec. 201. Definitions. Sec. 202. State-Federal consultation relating to conservation and recovery of wildlife. Sec. 203. Recovery of threatened and endangered species.
Sec. 204. Delisting, downlisting, and uplisting. Sec. 205. Cooperation with States and Indian Tribes. Sec. 206. State consultation regarding experimental populations. Sec. 207. State participation in settlements. TITLE III—Encouraging conservation activities through regulatory certainty Sec. 301. Sense of Congress regarding conservation agreements and activities. Sec. 302. Conservation agreements as factors in listing decisions. Sec. 303. Conservation efforts as regulatory mechanisms.
Sec. 304. Candidate conservation agreements with assurances. Sec. 305. Safe harbor agreements. Sec. 306. Conservation agreement templates. TITLE IV—Strengthening conservation decisionmaking through increased transparency Sec. 401. Transparency of information. Sec. 402. Transparency in litigation. TITLE V—Optimizing conservation through resource prioritization Sec. 501. Prioritization of listing petitions, reviews, and determinations. TITLE VI—Studies to improve conservation Sec. 601.
Definition of Secretaries. Sec. 602. Study to review conservation factors. Sec. 603. Study and report on expenditures. Sec. 604. Study to quantify litigation expenses. TITLE VII—Reauthorization Sec. 701. Reauthorization. TITLE VIII—Miscellaneous Sec. 801. Effect. Sec. 802. Sense of the Senate.