I am against this bill and…

I am against this bill and hope that the government will drop this proposal.

Allowing people to begin work immediately after registering, before it is reviewed will result in rampant abuse by people registering and immediately starting work, claiming ignorance of the rules they must follow and what they are destroying/disturbing, meaning that by the time the registration is considered and, potentially, denied, the damage has already been done and the denial of the registration will become moot as the plants/animals will already have been driven out, destroyed, or otherwise interfered with. Additionally there is nothing to prevent those same actors from performing the same activities again, even after their previous activities are known, because there are no checks before the work even starts. Finally, even if a serial bad actor may have their registration denied very quickly, how easy will it be for them to retry the registration under a different name or different umbrella, bypassing the ability to properly vet the people behind registrations to discover past instances where they may not have acted in good faith.

I can't see how excluding the requirement for registration for activities which affect species protected at the federal level can do anything but promote people picking and choosing to concentrate their compliance efforts in the jurisdiction of least onerous requirements, leading to some habitats, instances of a species, or related environments to be negatively affected without consequences from the federal officials as they have much more geography to cover.