Identification of Conservation Measures and Management Activities Sample Clauses

Identification of Conservation Measures and Management Activities. In this section of the CCAA, the conservation measures and/or management activities that the property owner will undertake are identified. These conservation measures should focus on actions that eliminate or reduce the threats to the covered species on the enrolled property in order to meet the CCAA standard. Specifically, the property owner and the Service should: (1) describe the nature, extent, timing, duration, and other pertinent details of the conservation measures that the property owner is willing to undertake to address the threats and conserve the covered species; and (2) explain how the conservation measures are appropriate for the covered species and are expected to eliminate or reduce the threats to the species on the enrolled property. The determination of whether the conservation measures identified in a CCAA will meet the CCAA standard is a critical part of CCAA development. In order to make this finding, the Service must determine that the benefits of the conservation measures implemented by the property owner under a CCAA, when combined with those benefits that would be achieved if the conservation measures were also implemented on other necessary properties, would preclude or remove any need to list the covered species. This determination will be made by the Service on a case-by-case basis and needs to include an analysis relating the proposed conservation measures to the five listing factors under section 4 of the Act (64 FR 32726) that categorize potential threats. These threat factors are: (A) the present or threatened destruction, modification, or curtailment of the species’ habitat or range; (B) overutilization for commercial, recreational, scientific, or educational purposes; (C) disease or predation; (D) the inadequacy of existing regulatory mechanisms; (E) other natural or manmade factors affecting its continued existence. Specifically, the CCAA should clearly demonstrate how the proposed conservation measures would reduce or eliminate the threats to the covered species on the enrolled property. By demonstrating this relationship, the Service can assume that if other property owners addressed the threats to the species on their properties, the CCAA standard would be met. Since it is unlikely that all five of these threat factors will occur on each enrolled property, the CCAA needs only to address those specific threats that apply to the covered species on the enrolled property. If a specific threat factor does not apply to the c...