[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 50, Volume 7]
[Revised as of October 1, 2006]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 50CFR424.02]

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                    TITLE 50--WILDLIFE AND FISHERIES
 
CHAPTER IV--JOINT REGULATIONS (UNITED STATES FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE, 
 
PART 424_LISTING ENDANGERED AND THREATENED SPECIES AND DESIGNATING CRITICAL HABITAT--Table of Contents
 
                      Subpart A_General Provisions
 
Sec.  424.02  Definitions.

    (a) The definitions of terms in 50 CFR 402.02 shall apply to this 
part 424, except as otherwise stated.

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    (b) Candidate means any species being considered by the Secretary 
for listing as an endangered or a threatened species, but not yet the 
subject of a proposed rule.
    (c) Conservation, conserve, and conserving mean to use and the use 
of all methods and procedures that are necessary to bring any endangered 
or threatened species to the point at which the measures provided 
pursuant to the Act are no longer necessary. Such methods and procedures 
include, but are not limited to, all activities associated with 
scientific resources management such as research, census, law 
enforcement, habitat acquisition and maintenance, propagation, live 
trapping, and transplantation, and, in the extraordinary case where 
population pressures within a given ecosystem cannot be otherwise 
relieved, may include regulated taking.
    (d) Critical habitat means (1) the specific areas within the 
geographical area currently occupied by a species, at the time it is 
listed in accordance with the Act, on which are found those physical or 
biological features (i) essential to the conservation of the species and 
(ii) that may require special management considerations or protection, 
and (2) specific areas outside the geographical area occupied by a 
species at the time it is listed upon a determination by the Secretary 
that such areas are essential for the conservation of the species.
    (e) Endangered species means a species that is in danger of 
extinction throughout all or a significant portion of its range.
    (f) List or lists means the Lists of Endangered and Threatened 
Wildlife and Plants found at 50 CFR 17.11(h) or 17.12(h).
    (g) Plant means any member of the plant kingdom, including, without 
limitation, seeds, roots, and other parts thereof.
    (h) Public hearing means an informal hearing to provide the public 
with the opportunity to give comments and to permit an exchange of 
information and opinion on a proposed rule.
    (i) Secretary means the Secretary of the Interior or the Secretary 
of Commerce, as appropriate, or their authorized representatives.
    (j) Special management considerations or protection means any 
methods or procedures useful in protecting physical and biological 
features of the environment for the conservation of listed species.
    (k) Species includes any species or subspecies of fish, wildlife, or 
plant, and any distinct population segment of any vertebrate species 
that interbreeds when mature. Excluded is any species of the Class 
Insecta determined by the Secretary to constitute a pest whose 
protection under the provisions of the Act would present an overwhelming 
and overriding risk to man.
    (l) State agency means any State agency, department, board, 
commission, or other governmental entity that is responsible for the 
management and conservation of fish, plant, or wildlife resources within 
a State.
    (m) Threatened species means any species that is likely to become an 
endangered species within the foreseeable future throughout all or a 
significant portion of its range.
    (n) Wildlife or fish and wildlife means any member of the animal 
kingdom, including without limitation, any vertebrate, mollusk, 
crustacean, arthropod, or other invertebrate, and includes any part, 
product, egg, or offspring thereof, or the dead body or parts thereof.