Permits for
Native Endangered & Threatened Species
The Endangered Species Act, with some exceptions, prohibits activities affecting threatened and endangered species unless authorized by a permit from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) or the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administrations—Fisheries. Your proposed activity may also require a state permit. You should contact your state wildlife agencies for additional information. Getting a Service permit is contingent upon obtaining any required state permit.
Offices That Issue Permits The Service's Endangered Species program issues permits through its Regional offices for native endangered and threatened species, except for import or export permits, which are issued by the Division of Management Authority located at our Headquarters Office in Arlington, Virginia. Permits and Public CommentEndangered species
permits authorize actions that can potentially impact a species’
recovery. Before issuing a permit, we invite public comment on it. Federal
Register announcements soliciting public comment on permit applications
can be found in the Service's
centralized library of Federal Register notices in the “Notices”
section of each year. Permit Application Fees The processing fee for
many permit applications increased on May 11, 2005.
For information on the fee increase please
view the final rule [PDF] (published on Monday, April 11, 2005), or the accompanying press
release. Revised Permit Application Forms for Native Endangered & Threatened Species Fish and Wildlife Service permit applications are available on the web. The Endangered Species Program's permit applications are numbered below. The first page is now identical for all Service permit application forms. To make the forms easier to use, most of the check box items have been moved to the front. We also added a list of Regional contacts. Please read the instructions on how to fill out the online forms before accessing the forms.
If you need a permit application form for a different Service program, go to our main permit web page. | |||||||