Existing law, the California Endangered Species Act, requires the Fish and Game Commission to establish a list of endangered species and a list of threatened species, and requires the department to recommend, and the commission to adopt, criteria for determining if a species is endangered or threatened. Under the act, an interested person may petition the commission to add a species to, or remove a species from, either the list of endangered species or the list of threatened species, and existing law requires the commission to consider the petition at a meeting, as prescribed. The act requires the commission to publish a notice, as prescribed, of the receipt of a petition by the department or by an interested party and referred to the department or the commencement of an evaluation to add a species to, remove a species from, or change the status of a species on, the list of endangered species or the list of threatened species. The act requires the commission to notify interested persons by mail of the notices and to mail a copy of the notice to those persons.
This bill would require the commission to post a notice on its internet website at the time that it mails a copy of the notice those persons.