---
title: "Keep Up with Changing Federal Regulations"
date: 2022-12-19
author: "Katherine Purcell"
featured_image: "https://www.ectinc.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/RJB_MYSE.jpg"
categories:
  - name: "Regulatory Updates"
    url: "/category/regulatory-updates.md"
  - name: "Resources"
    url: "/category/resources.md"
tags:
  - name: "bat survey"
    url: "/tag/bat-survey.md"
  - name: "federally permitted bat biologists"
    url: "/tag/federally-permitted-bat-biologists.md"
  - name: "Florida bonneted bat"
    url: "/tag/florida-bonneted-bat.md"
  - name: "Gray bat"
    url: "/tag/gray-bat.md"
  - name: "impact evaluation"
    url: "/tag/impact-evaluation.md"
  - name: "Indiana bat"
    url: "/tag/indiana-bat.md"
  - name: "Northern long-eared bat"
    url: "/tag/northern-long-eared-bat.md"
  - name: "Ozark big-eared bat"
    url: "/tag/ozark-big-eared-bat.md"
  - name: "Virginia big-eared bat"
    url: "/tag/virginia-big-eared-bat.md"
---

# Keep Up with Changing Federal Regulations

Our avian and bat teams are ready to help you adapt to changing federal regulations that could affect future developments.

Here’s what you need to know:

## **Northern long-eared bat**

- Effective January 30, 2023 – status changes to “endangered”
- Range is significantly large – includes 37 states
- Mist-net and acoustic surveys will likely be required
- Construction and development schedules will likely be affected. Surveys can only be completed between May 15-Aug 15
- Seasonal tree clearing restrictions and wooded acreage removal thresholds will affect many projects
- Additional cost considerations for projects that require surveying, mitigation, or take permitting

[Learn more about NLEB](https://www.fws.gov/press-release/2022-11/northern-long-eared-bat-reclassified-endangered-under-endangered-species-act).

 ![](https://www.ectinc.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/RJB_MYSE-1024x698.jpg)Northern long-eared bat (Myotis septentrionalis)## **Lesser Prairie-chicken**

- Effective January 24, 2023: status changes to “threatened” for the Northern Distinct Population Segment and “endangered” for the Southern Distinct Population Segment
- Historic range has diminished by 90 %
- Range covers five states including southeastern Colorado, western Kansas, eastern New Mexico, western Oklahoma, and the Texas Panhandle
- Lek surveys need to be conducted between late-March and early-May

[Learn more about Lesser Prairie-Chicken](https://www.fws.gov/media/lesser-prairie-chicken-final-listing-4d-rule).

 ![](https://www.ectinc.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Native-Prairie-Chicken-1024x680.jpg)Lesser prairie-chicken (Tympanuchus pallidicinctus)###### CONNECT WITH US

 ![](https://www.ectinc.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Miller_Jessica.jpg)

## Jessica Miller

Operations Director

 [  
 CONTACT  ](mailto:jmiller@ectinc.com?cc=corp@ectinc.com&subject=Federal%20Regulation%20Changes)