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United States United States United States United States Department of Department of Department of Department of Agriculture Commerce Interior Interior Forest Service National Oceanic Bureau of Fish and and Atmospheric Land Management Wildlife Service Administration Fisheries Reply to: 2670(FS)/6840(BLM) Date: May 27, 2003 FS/NOAA Fisheries/BLM/FWS-Memorandum To: Forest Service Supervisors (Regions 1, 4, 6), USDI Fish Wildlife Service Field Supervisors (Region 1), USDI Bureau of Land Management District/Field Managers (OR/WA, ID, and MT), and USDC National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Fisheries Project Managers (Northwest) Subject: Implementing Streamlined Consultation Procedures for Section 7 of the Endangered Species Act (excluding California) – (ICS Memo #2) As the Regional Executives representing the Forest Service (FS), the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), the Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS), and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Fisheries, we are re-issuing the Streamlined Consultation Procedures for Section 7 of the Endangered Species Act - July 1999 (see the interagency ESA website listed below) for the geographic area encompassing the Northwest Forest Plan, PACFISH/INFISH (excluding California), and the range of the threatened bull trout, and related Biological Opinions. By doing so, we are reaffirming our commitment to these procedures as our basic approach to meeting our collective responsibilities under Section 7 of the Endangered Species Act (ESA). We continue to endorse the establishment of interagency Level 1 and Level 2 teams, a Regional Technical Team (RTT), Interagency Coordinators (IC’s), and an Interagency Coordination Subgroup (ICS) as the foundation for implementing these procedures here in the Pacific Northwest. We are incorporating most of the documents referenced in this memorandum on the newly developed interagency ESA website: /esa/. These doc