(

a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, if any person obtains from the Secretary of Commerce or the Secretary of the Interior an enhancement of survival permit pursuant to

Section 1539(a)(1)(

A) of Title of the United States Code that authorizes the taking of an endangered species or a threatened species that is listed pursuant to

Section of Title of the United States Code and that is an endangered species, threatened species, or candidate species pursuant to this

chapter in order to establish or maintain an experimental population, no further authorization or approval is necessary under this

chapter for that person to take that endangered species, threatened species, or candidate species identified in, and in accordance with, the enhancement of survival permit, if all of the following requirements are met:

(1) That person shall notify the director in writing that the person has received an enhancement of survival permit and include in the notification a copy of the permit.

(2) Upon receipt of the notice specified in paragraph (1), the director shall immediately have the notice published in the General Public Interest

section of the California Regulatory Notice Register.

(3) Within days after the director has received the notice specified in paragraph (1), the director determines the enhancement of survival permit will further the conservation of the species. As used in this paragraph, “conservation” has the same meaning as defined in

Section 2061.

(4) The director shall immediately have the determination pursuant to paragraph (3) published in the General Public Interest

section of the California Regulatory Notice Register. (

b) The timing and extent of a take authorization under this

section shall be limited to the terms in the federal enhancement of survival permit and shall expire upon the expiration of the federal permit. (c)

(1) This

section shall remain in effect only until the effective date of an amendment to

Section of Title of the United States Code that alters the requirements for issuing an enhancement of survival permit, as applicable, and as of that date is repealed.

(2) If the director becomes aware that this

section has been repealed pursuant to this subdivision, the director shall notify the Legislature of that fact pursuant to

Section of the Government Code.