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Enhancing the Quality and Objectivity of Scientific Information

To improve the quality and objectivity of the scientific information we use to make decisions, the Fish and Wildlife Service will implement a more structured “peer review” process for influential scientific information and highly influential scientific assessments, per OMB Bulletin on Peer Review, “Final Information Quality Bulletin for Peer Review,” (PDF, 263 KB) released December 16, 2004.

Part of the peer review process is to provide information on the Web about how each peer review is to be conducted, as described in this checklist.

Peer Review Agenda

We have identified the following documents as meeting the OMB criteria of peer review for influential scientific information. Click on a title to get more information about that document and the peer review process we have set up for it. This list will be updated as necessary.

Posting Date
Draft Document Title
12/16/2005
Idaho springsnail, 12-month finding (listing/delisting)
12/20/2005
11/01/2006
Proposed Designation of Critical Habitat for 11 Species of Picture-wing Flies from the Hawaiian Islands.
1/25/07
Marbled Murrelet Proposed Designation of Critical Habitat

 
12/07/2007
Draft Recovery Plan for the Northern Spotted Owl
12/10/2007
Proposed Designation of Critical Habitat for the Northern Spotted Owl
8/11/2008
Withdrawal of Proposed Reclassification of the Hawaiian Hawk or Io (Buteo solitarius) from Endangered to Threatened; Proposed Rule to Remove the Hawaiian hawk from the Federal List of Endangered and Threatened Wildlife




   
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