1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Greater Sage-Grouse Protection and Recovery Act of 2017 . 2. Purposes The purposes of this Act are— (1) to facilitate implementation of State management plans over a period of multiple, consecutive greater sage-grouse life cycles; and (2) to demonstrate the efficacy of the State management plans for the protection and recovery of the greater sage-grouse. 3. Definitions In this Act: (1) Federal resource management plan The term Federal resource management plan means— (A) a land use plan prepared by the Bureau of Land Management for public land pursuant to section 202 of the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 ( 43 U.S.C. 1712 ); and (B) a land and resource management plan prepared by the Forest Service for National Forest System land pursuant to section 6 of the Forest and Rangeland Renewable Resources Planning Act of 1974 ( 16 U.S.C. 1604 ). (2) Greater sage-grouse The term greater sage-grouse means a sage-grouse of the species Centrocercus urophasianus. (3) State management plan The term State management plan means a State-approved plan for the protection and recovery of the greater sage-grouse. 4. Protection and recovery of greater sage-grouse (a) Endangered Species Act of 1973 findings (1) Delay required The Secretary of the Interior may not modify or invalidate the finding of the Director of the United States Fish and Wildlife Service announced in the proposed rule entitled Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants