# Plain Language Summary: Endangered Species Act Rule Withdrawal Bill

This bill tells two federal agencies—the Fish and Wildlife Service and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)—to cancel new rules they proposed related to the Endangered Species Act. The Endangered Species Act is the main federal law that protects animals and plants at risk of extinction, like bald eagles, gray wolves, and sea turtles. These agencies had been working on new regulations to change how this law works, but this bill would stop those changes before they take effect.

The practical effect is that whatever new protections or requirements these agencies were planning to add through their proposed rules would not happen. Instead, the existing rules and practices for protecting endangered species would stay in place. This could affect environmental groups that wanted stronger protections, businesses that were concerned about new restrictions, and the animals and plants themselves depending on what those proposed rules would have done. Without seeing the specific proposed rules, it's hard to say exactly who benefits and who loses, but generally speaking, this bill freezes the status quo rather than allowing the government to update how it manages endangered species protection.

A bill to require the Director of the United States Fish and Wildlife Service and the Assistant Administrator for Fisheries of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to withdraw proposed rules relating to the Endangered Species Act of 1973, and for other purposes.