1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Endangered Species Management Self-Determination Act . 2. Definition of ESA In this Act, the term ESA means the Endangered Species Act of 1973 ( 16 U.S.C. 1531 et seq.). 3. Findings Congress finds that— (1) the ESA was passed in 1973 as a means of protecting and recovering species and has not been substantially revised in over 25 years; (2) the ESA has not achieved its stated goal of recovering threatened species or endangered species; (3) of the species listed in accordance with the ESA, less than 1 percent of the total number of species in the United States have been recovered and removed from the list, largely due to data errors or other factors; (4) there is— (A) no comprehensive independent study of the costs or benefits of the ESA; (B) no full accounting of how much the Federal Government and State and local governments spend to implement, enforce, and comply with the ESA; and (C) no meaningful effort to account for the costs the ESA imposes on the private sector; (5) the ESA effectively penalizes landowners for owning endangered species habitat by forcing them to bear the cost of conservation; (6) the regulatory listing process under the ESA has become a tool for environmentalists to undermine, slow down, or halt construction of infrastructure projects, hampering economic growth and employment; and (7) litigation stemming from the ESA and some resulting settlements between the litigants and the Federal Government have made the ESA even more unworkable, to the detriment of species. 4. Amendments to the Endangered Species Act of 1973 (a) Determinations of endangered species and threatened species Section 4 of the Endangered Species Act of 1973 ( 16 U.S.C. 1533 ) is amended— (1) in subsection (a)— (A) in paragraph (1), by inserting , with the consent of the Governor of each State in which the endangered species or threatened species is present, after The Secretary