The Endangered Species Act (Section 18) requires the Fish and Wildlife Service to submit to Congress (through the Secretary of the Interior) an annual report of a cost analysis of expenditures that were made for the conservation of threatened and endangered species. The reports include what the Federal government and State governments spent during the preceding Federal fiscal year. Congress uses the reports to compare how the money is distributed across the species. They are not used to determine appropriations nor do they show how much was appropriated for each species. The reports are available to the public, and the information is often used by environmental organizations to assist with conservation and by the media.

To gather the information, the Director (through the Endangered Species Program) sends out a request for data each year to all Federal agencies that may have a connection with a federally listed species and, therefore, a need to spend money to uphold the Act. The same request is also sent to the International Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies, which gathers the data from the individual States and Territories. The Endangered Species Program then compiles the data and prepares the annual “Report to Congress on Federal and State Endangered and Threatened Species Expenditures.”

• 1996 Expenditure Report [pdf]. This report presents the reported expenditures for Fiscal Year 1996 (October 1995 - September 1996).
• 1997 Expenditure Report [pdf]. This report presents the reported expenditures for Fiscal Year 1997 (October 1996 - September 1997).
• 1998-2000 Expenditure Reports These three reports present the reported expenditures for Fiscal Years 1998 (October 1997 - September 1998), 1999 (October 1998 - September 1999), and 2000 (October 1999 - September 2000).
• 2001 Expenditure Report [pdf]. This report presents the reported expenditures for Fiscal Year 2001 (October 2000 - September 2001). Revised January 2005.
• 2002 Expenditure Report [pdf]. This report presents the reported expenditures for Fiscal Year 2002 (October 2001 - September 2002). Revised January 2005.
• 2003 Expenditure Report [pdf]. This report presents the reported expenditures for Fiscal Year 2003 (October 2002 - September 2003). January 2005.
• 2004 Expenditure Report [15.6MB pdf]. This report presents the reported expenditures for Fiscal Year 2004 (October 2003 - September 2004). January 2006

  The reports are available to the public, and the information is used by the media, environmental organizations, and other interested parties.

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