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Title 50 —Wildlife and Fisheries
Chapter I —United States Fish and Wildlife Service, Department of the Interior
Subchapter B
—Taking, Possession, Transportation, Sale, Purchase, Barter, Exportation, and Importation of Wildlife and Plants
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PART 17—ENDANGERED AND THREATENED WILDLIFE AND PLANTS
Authority: 16 U.S.C. 1361–1407; 1531–1544; and 4201–4245, unless otherwise noted.
Source: 40 FR 44415, Sept. 26, 1975, unless otherwise noted.
Source: 40 FR 44415, Sept. 26, 1975, unless otherwise noted. Redesignated at 85 FR 82388, Dec. 18, 2020.
Source: 40 FR 44415, Sept. 26, 1975. Redesignated at 85 FR 82388, Dec. 18, 2020, and further redesignated at 87 FR 43447, July 21, 2022.
EDITORIAL NOTE

Editorial Note: Paragraphs (a)–(h) of § 17.99 appear in 50 Part 17, §§ 17.99(a) to 17.99(h).
EDITORIAL NOTE

Editorial Note: Paragraphs (a)–(e) of § 17.95 appear in 50 Part 17, §§ 17.1 to 17.95(a), 50 Part 17, § 17.95(b), and 50 Part 17, § 17.95(c)
to § 17.95(e).

EDITORIAL NOTE

Editorial Note: Paragraphs (a)–(b) of § 17.95 appear in 50 Part 17, §§ 17.1 to 17.95(a) and 50 Part 17, § 17.95(b).
EDITORIAL NOTE

Editorial Note: Paragraph (a) of § 17.95 appears in 50 Part 17, §§ 17.1 to 17.95(a).

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 Part 17 Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants

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 Subpart A Introduction and General Provisions
17.1 – 17.9
§ 17.1 Purpose of regulations.
§ 17.2 Scope of regulations.
§ 17.3 Definitions.
§ 17.4 Pre-Act wildlife.
§ 17.5 Alaska natives.
§ 17.6 State cooperative agreements. [Reserved]
§ 17.7 Raptor exemption.
§ 17.8 Import exemption for threatened, CITES Appendix-II wildlife.
§ 17.9 Permit applications and information collection requirements.
 Subpart B Lists
17.11 – 17.12
§ 17.11 Endangered and threatened wildlife.
§ 17.12 Endangered and threatened plants.
 Subpart C Endangered Wildlife
17.21 – 17.23
§ 17.21 Prohibitions.
§ 17.22 Permits for scientific purposes, enhancement of propagation or survival, or for incidental taking.
§ 17.23 Economic hardship permits.
17.31 – 17.48
 Subpart D Threatened Wildlife
§ 17.31 Prohibitions.
§ 17.32 Permits—general.
§ 17.40 Special rules—mammals.
§ 17.41 Special rules—birds.
§ 17.42 Special rules—reptiles.
§ 17.43 Special rules—amphibians.
§ 17.44 Special rules—fishes.
§ 17.45 Special rules—snails and clams.
§ 17.46 Special rules—crustaceans.
§ 17.47 Special rules—insects.
§ 17.48 Special rules—common sponges and other forms. [Reserved]
 Subpart E Similarity of Appearance
§ 17.50 General.
§ 17.51 Treatment as endangered or threatened.
§ 17.52 Permits—similarity of appearance.
 Subpart F Endangered Plants

17.50 – 17.52

17.61 – 17.63

§ 17.61 Prohibitions.
§ 17.62 Permits for scientific purposes or for the enhancement of propagation or survival.
§ 17.63 Economic hardship permits.
 Subpart G Threatened Plants
17.71 – 17.78
§ 17.71 Prohibitions.
§ 17.72 Permits—general.
§ 17.73 Special rules—flowering plants.
§ 17.74 Special rules—conifers and cycads.
§§ 17.75-17.78 [Reserved]
Subpart
H Experimental Populations
17.80 – 17.86
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§ 17.80 Definitions.
§ 17.81 Listing.
§ 17.82 Prohibitions.
§ 17.83 Interagency cooperation.
§ 17.84 Species-specific rules—vertebrates.
§ 17.85 Species-specific rules—invertebrates.
§ 17.86 [Reserved]
Subpart
I Interagency Cooperation
17.94 – 17.99
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§ 17.94 Critical habitats.
§ 17.95 Critical habitat—fish and wildlife.
§ 17.96 Critical habitat—plants.
§§ 17.97-17.98 [Reserved]
§ 17.99 Critical habitat; plants on the Hawaiian Islands.
 Subpart J Manatee Protection Areas
§ 17.100 Purpose.
§ 17.101 Scope.
§ 17.102 Definitions.
§ 17.103 Establishment of protection areas.
§ 17.104 Prohibitions.
§ 17.105 Permits and exceptions.
§ 17.106 Emergency establishment of protection areas.
§ 17.107 Facilitating enforcement.
§ 17.108 List of designated manatee protection areas.
§§ 17.109-17.199 [Reserved]

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