Quiz 1 FP and ESA

Question 1

Forest practices became legally enforceable in Washington state in what year?

Answer 1

1970’s

Question 2

Timber fish and wildlife established consensus based negotiation process for state holders to meet habitat and water quality goals in what year?

Answer 2

1988

Question 3

what year did several salmon species get listed as threatened or endangered?

Answer 3

1998

Question 4

Negotiations became forest and fish report (FFR), a strategy to recover the salmon in what year?

Answer 4

1999

Question 5

Washington legislators encourage forest practice board to fallow recommendations in the FFR to develop new forest practice rules in what year?

Answer 5

2000

Question 6

Following preparation of an environmental impact statement (EIS, WFPB), additional work by stakeholders, and consideration of public comments, WFPB approve final rules in what year

Answer 6

2001

Question 7

The new rules brought two sweeping changes. One was to define forest practices on non-federal lands for the next 50 years to meet the following goals: First to…

Answer 7

Comply with the federal Endangered Species Act (ESA).

Satisfy the federal Clean Water Act (CWA).

Question 8

The second was to establish an adaptive management framework and….

Answer 8

to provide science-based recommendations and technical information to assist the WFPB in determining if and when it is necessary or advisable to adjust rules and guidance for aquatic resources to achieve resource goals and objectives.”

Question 9

The endangered species act was signed when?

Answer 9

12/28/1973

Question 10

The endangered species act replaced what?

Answer 10

The Endangered Species Conservation Act of 1969

Question 11

How many species are listed as endangered or threatened?

Answer 11

2270

Question 12

a species is considered endangered when…

Answer 12

if it is in danger of extinction throughout all or a significant portion of its range

Question 13

a species is considered threatened when…

Answer 13

it is likely to become an endangered species within the foreseeable future

Question 14

A species must be listed under the Endangered Species Act (ESA) if it is threatened or endangered due to any of the following 5 factors:

Answer 14

present or threatened destruction, modification, or curtailment of its habitat or range;

over-utilization of the species for commercial, recreational, scientific, or educational purposes;

disease or predation;

inadequacy of existing regulatory mechanisms

other natural or manmade factors affecting its continued existence

Question 15

The ESA requires that listing determinations be based solely on ..

Answer 15

best scientific and commercial information

Question 16

There are essentially 2 ways marine species can be listed under the ESA:

Answer 16

Any person or organization may petition us to list a species as “threatened” or “endangered”,

We may initiate a status review of a species

Question 17

Critical habitat is…

Answer 17

Specific areas within or outside the geographical area occupied by the species at the time of listing, if they contain physical or biological features essential to conservation, and those features may require special management considerations or protection

Question 18

What is “take?”

Answer 18

means to “harass, harm, pursue, hunt, shoot, wound, kill, trap, capture, or collect, or to attempt to engage in any such conduct.”

Question 19

Federal Water Pollution control act started in what year?

Answer 19

1948

Question 20

what did the 1972 amendments do?

Answer 20

Established the basic structure for regulating pollutant discharges into the waters of the United States.
Funded the construction of sewage treatment plants under the construction grants program

Question 21

what are the two types of enforcement actions?

Answer 21

Civil Administrative Actions

Civil Judicial Actions

Question 22

What is Civil Administrative Actions?

Answer 22

are non-judicial enforcement actions taken by EPA or a state under its own authority. These actions do not involve a judicial court process.

Question 23

What is Civil Judicial Actions?

Answer 23

are formal lawsuits. They are filed in court, against persons or entities that have failed to:
comply with statutory or regulatory requirements,
comply with an administrative order,
pay EPA the costs for cleaning up a Superfund site or commit to doing the cleanup work.

Question 24

2 Types of Enforcement Results

Answer 24

Civil Enforcement

Criminal Enforcement

Question 25

What is the clean air act?

Answer 25

the comprehensive federal law that regulates air emissions from stationary and mobile sources.