No person shall buy, sell, offer for sale, store, transport, import, export, or otherwise traffic in any animal or plant or any part of any animal or plant whether living, dead, processed, manufactured, preserved, or raw if the animal or plant has been declared to be an endangered species by either the United States secretaries of the interior or commerce or the director of the Rhode Island department of environmental management...
Citation: Gen.Laws 1956, § 20-37-3.
...(e) Upon notification that an existing facility will be closed, or whenever the Commission has made a determination pursuant to subdivision (4) of subsection (a), that additional regional facility capacity is necessary or projected to be necessary, and no application submitted pursuant to subsections (c) and (d) is pending before the Commission which, if approved, would result in the development of additional capacity adequate to accept the low-level waste generated within the region for management, the Commission shall initiate the process stated in this section to select a state to host a regional facility in a timely manner and to ensure its operation for a twenty (20) year period. The primary criterion guiding this process shall be the protection of public health, safety and the environment. However, no state shall be required to host two (2) successive regional facilities.
(1) The Commission shall notify all party states, other than the host state in which the most recently developed regional facility is located, that they are potential host states for the purpose of undertaking the macroscreening review established in subdivision (2) of this subsection. The notification shall be made to the governor and the presiding officer of each house of the legislature of each party state, and shall describe the process to be used to select a host state.
(2) The Commission shall, after consultation with appropriate licensing and regulatory authorities, adopt by rule exclusionary criteria to identify all geographic areas that are unsuitable as regional facility sites. That criteria shall exclude, at least, all geographic areas:...
(xv) Critical to the habitat of endangered or threatened species of plants or animals...
Citation: Gen.Laws 1956, § 23-19.9-6.