Green strips or vegetative fuel breaks

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Loren St. John; Dan Ogle

2009-01-01

According to the National Interagency Fire Center, between 1998 and 2008 there were on average 65,581 fires per year and an average of 6,114,135 acres burned each year in the United States. Rangelands in the western United States have been invaded by many annual weed species including cheatgrass, an introduced winter annual grass that produces large quantities of...

The Interagency Cometh: Is the National Security System of 1947 Capable of Handling the Challenges of 2009?

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2009-01-01

command system.2 The United States Southern Command, responsible for Department of Defense planning, coordination, and operations in Central America ...South America and i waters, formed its Joint Interagency Task Force South to enable it to conduct coordinated illicit trafficking operations. ts y...Collin Powell and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, the National Security Council has at times been a place for policy to come to die under the

Balancing conflicting values: ecosystem solutions in the Pacific Northwest of the United States and Canada.

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Richard W. Haynes; Robert C. Szaro; Dennis P. Dykstra

2005-01-01

Ecosystem approaches to sustainable forest management in the Pacific Northwest of the United States and Canada have arisen in response to significant changes that have occurred in these societies over the past century or so (Interagency Ecosystem Management Task Force, 1995). One such change as been rapid population growth along the Pacific Coast, where the mild...

Cyberspace: A Selected Bibliography

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2013-05-01

Implications of the Private Sector’s Role in Cyber Conflict." Texas International Law Journal 47, no. 3 (Summer 2012): 617-640. ProQuest Lucas, George R...Cyberspace." Proceedings: United States Naval Institute 137, no. 2 (February 2011): 32-37. ProQuest Lin, Herbert . "Escalation Dynamics and Conflict...Harold Hongju. "International Law in Cyberspace." USCYBERCOM [United States Cyber Command] Inter-Agency Legal Conference, Ft. Meade , MD, September 18

COMPARISON OF DATA FROM THE STN AND IMPROVE NETWORKS

EPA Science Inventory

Two national chemical speciation-monitoring networks operate currently within the United States. The Interagency Monitoring of Protected Visual Environments (IMPROVE) monitoring network operates primarily in rural areas collecting aerosol and optical data to better understand th...

Climate Impacts Already Affect Every Region of the United States, Report Warns

NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

Showstack, Randy

2014-05-01

"Climate change, once considered an issue for a distant future, has moved firmly into the present," according to the third iteration of the U.S. National Climate Assessment (NCA), issued by the White House on 6 May. "The observed warming and other climatic changes are triggering wide-ranging impacts in every region of our country and throughout our economy," states the report, titled Climate Change Impacts in the United States, issued through the federal interagency U.S. Global Change Research Program.

CORAL DISEASE & HEALTH CONSORTIUM: FINDING SOLUTIONS

EPA Science Inventory

The National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and the Department of Interior (DOI) developed the framework for a Coral Disease and Health Consortium (CDHC) for the United States Coral Reef Task Force (USCRTF) through an interag...

EFFECT OF GROUND-WATER REMEDIATION ACTIVITIES ON INDIGENOUS MICROFLORA

EPA Science Inventory

The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), working with the Interagency DNAPL Consortium, completed an independent evaluation of microbial responses to ground-water remediation technology demonstrations at Launch Pad 34 at Cape Canaveral Air Station in Brevard Count...

75 FR 32810 - 60-Day Notice of Intention To Request Clearance of Collection of Information; Opportunity for...

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... Recreational Lands Pass available, for free, to any United States citizen or person domiciled in the United... Parks and Federal Recreational Lands Access Pass (Interagency Access Pass) was created to meet the... published them within the America the Beautiful--The National Parks and Federal Recreational Lands Pass...

Atmospheric ammonia and particulate inorganic nitrogen over the United States

EPA Science Inventory

We use in situ observations from the Interagency Monitoring of PROtected Visual Environments (IMPROVE) network, the Midwest Ammonia Monitoring Project, 11 surface site campaigns as well as Infrared Atmospheric Sounding Interferometer (IASI) satellite measurements with the GEOS-Ch...

RADIOACTIVE MATERIALS IN BIOSOLIDS: DOSE MODELING

EPA Science Inventory

The Interagency Steering Committee on Radiation Standards (ISCORS) has recently completed a study of the occurrence within the United States of radioactive materials in sewage sludge and sewage incineration ash. One component of that effort was an examination of the possible tra...

The United States Government Interagency Process and the Failure of Institution Building in Iraq

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2008-06-12

warehouses they were amazed to find pallets and pallets full of medical equipment from floor to ceiling that had had been in the warehouses for some... glass broken; and books and documents strewn about?”27 24 Durch, William ed. “Twenty-First-Century Peace Operations.” United States Institute of...health) to actors that potentially threaten domestic or international order (e.g., Egypt, Palestinian Authority, Lebanon ) Exploitation of legal

77 FR 47704 - Proposed Collection; Comment Request

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... Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS), an inter-agency committee chaired by the Secretary of the... DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY Proposed Collection; Comment Request AGENCY: Office of Investment..., the Office of Investment Security within the Department of the Treasury is soliciting comments...

Spatial and monthly trends in speciated fine particle concentration in the United States

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Malm, William C.; Schichtel, Bret A.; Pitchford, Marc L.; Ashbaugh, Lowell L.; Eldred, Robert A.

2004-02-01

In the spring of 1985 an interagency consortium of federal land management agencies and the Environmental Protection Agency established the Interagency Monitoring of Protected Visual Environments (IMPROVE) network to assess visibility and aerosol monitoring for the purpose of tracking spatial and temporal trends of visibility and visibility-impairing particles in rural areas. The program was initiated with 20 monitoring sites and was expanded to 165 sites between 2000 and 2003. This paper reports on fine aerosol data collected in the year 2001 at 143 sites. The major fine (dp < 2.5 μm) particle aerosol species, sulfates, nitrates, organics, light-absorbing carbon, and wind-blown dust, and coarse gravimetric mass are monitored, and at some sites, light scattering and/or extinction are measured. Sulfates, carbon, and crustal material are responsible for most of the fine mass at the majority of locations throughout the United States, while at sites in southern California and the midwestern United States, nitrates can contribute significantly. In the eastern United States, sulfates contribute between 50 and 60% of the fine mass. Sulfate concentrations tend to be highest in the summer months while organic concentrations can be high in the spring, summer, or fall seasons, depending upon fire-related emissions. However, at the two urban sites, Phoenix, Arizona, and Puget Sound, Washington, organics peak during the winter months. Nitrate concentrations also tend to be highest during the winter months. During the spring months in many areas of the western United States, fine soil can contribute as much as 40% of fine mass. The temporal changes in soil concentration that occur simultaneously over much of the western United States including the Rocky Mountain region suggest a large source region, possibly long-range transport of Asian dust.

How State and Local Interagency Partnerships Work.

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Rachal, Patricia, Ed.

1996-01-01

This newsletter theme issue describes a state-local team partnership model for interagency transition efforts for young adults with deaf-blindness. Excepts from a presentation by Jane M. Everson identify key aspects and characteristics of effective state and local interagency partnerships. These include: (1) strategies for initiating and…

Some significant wildlife strikes to civil aircraft in the United States, January 1990 - September 2008

DOT National Transportation Integrated Search

2008-10-23

The U.S. Department of Agriculture, through an interagency agreement with the Federal Aviation Administration, : compiles a database of all reported wildlife strikes to U.S. civil aircraft and to foreign carriers experiencing strikes : in the USA. We...

IMPACTS OF HISTORIC AND CURRENT-USE CHEMICALS IN WESTERN NATIONAL PARKS

EPA Science Inventory

The Western Airborne Contaminants Assessment Project (WACAP) is an interagency effort to determine if airborne contaminants such as semi-volatile organic compounds (sacs) and metals

(e.g. mercury) are impacting National Parks in the western United States. Remote, high elev...

Posture Statement of General Douglas M. Fraser, United States Air Force Commander, United States Southern Command, Before the 112th Congress House Armed Services Committee

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2012-03-06

1 Aravena, F. Confianza: base para la gobernabilidad y la convivencia democrática en América...Latinoamericano de Ciencias Sociales (FLACSO). 3 Joint Interagency Task Force South (JIATF South), our key component in detection and monitoring of illicit...Central America’s north, the government of Mexico has fully committed to reducing the power and impunity of transnational organized crime and drug

Some significant wildlife strikes to civil aircraft in the United States, January 1990 - September 2010

DOT National Transportation Integrated Search

2010-11-10

The U.S. Department of Agriculture, through an interagency agreement with the Federal Aviation Administration, compiles a database of all reported wildlife strikes to U.S. civil aircraft and to foreign carriers experiencing strikes in the USA. We hav...

ISCORS ASSESSMENT OF RADIOACTIVITY IN SEWAGE SLUDGE: MODELING TO ASSESS RADIATION DOSES

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The Interagency Steering Committee on Radiation Standards (ISCORS) has recently completed a study of the occurrence within the United States of radioactive materials in sewage sludge and sewage incineration ash. One component of that effort was an examination of the possible tran...

ASSESSING THE COMPARABILITY OF AMMONIUM, NITRATE AND SULFATE CONCENTRATIONS MEASURED BY THREE AIR QUALITY MONITORING NETWORKS

EPA Science Inventory

Airborne fine particulate matter across the United States is monitored by different networks, the three prevalent ones presently being the Clean Air Status and Trend Network (CASTNet), the Interagency Monitoring of PROtected Visual Environment Network (IMPROVE) and the Speciati...

An introduction to the special issue on ecological sites

USDA-ARS?s Scientific Manuscript database

The establishment of the Rangeland Interagency Ecological Site Manual by the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS), Forest Service (FS), and the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) heralds a new era of rangeland management in the United States (http://www.fs.fed.us/biology/soil/Signed_RIESM_2010...

Determining the Spatial and Seasonal Variability in OM/OC Ratios across the U.S. Using Multiple Regression

EPA Science Inventory

Data from the Interagency Monitoring of Protected Visual Environments (IMPROVE) network are used to estimate organic mass to organic carbon (OM/OC) ratios across the United States by extending previously published multiple regression techniques. Our new methodology addresses com...

Illegal Methamphetamine Drug Laboratories: A New Challenge for Environmental Health Professionals.

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Skeers, Vicki M.

1992-01-01

Reports on clandestine drug laboratories for manufacturing methamphetamine; the formation of an interagency steering committee to address the problem; and the role Environmental Health professionals need to play as the problem becomes more prevalent across the United States. Provides background information on methamphetamine characteristics and…

75 FR 22497 - Interagency Task Force on Veterans Small Business Development

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... authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including section 102 of title I of the Military Reservist and Veteran Small Business Reauthorization and...) the General Services Administration; and (b) four representatives from a veterans' service or military...

Armed and Dangerous? UAVs and U.S. Security

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2014-01-01

MEMS] as inertial navigation units [INUs]. This technology is widely used in commercial products, such as toy helicopters and Wii controllers. The...aircraft? In conclusion, both the MTCR and Wassenaar Arrange- ment provide the United States with the flexibility and controls to be able to balance its...security and nonproliferation goals with respect to armed UAVs. Perhaps more problematic is whether the government interagency can strike a balance

Management of the spotted owl: a case history in conservation biology

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B.R. Noon; K.S. McKelvey

1996-01-01

Official conservation efforts for the northern spotted owl began in the United States in 1975 when it was declared “threatened” in the state of Oregon; efforts continued in a sporadic and unsystematic way through the 1980s. In 1989 the Interagency Scientific Committee (ISC) was established by Congress and charged with the development of a scientifically defensible...

Planning and the Interagency Process: How can the United States Department of Defense and the Department of State Prepare for Future Joint Operations in a Time of Reduced Budgets?

DTIC Science & Technology

2012-04-30

Conrad Crane, “Phase IV Operations: Where Wars are Really Won.” Military Review, ( May -June 2005, http://usacac.army.mil/ CAC2 /MilitaryReview/Archives...Wars are Really Won.” Military Review, ( May -June 2005, http://usacac.army.mil/ CAC2 /MilitaryReview/Archives/English...Yerace, Joshua J 5f. WORK UNIT NUMBER N/A 7. PERFORMING ORGANIZATION NAME(S) AND ADDRESS(ES) USMC Command and Staff College Marine Corps

Understanding Children with Asthma: Trouble and Triggers

ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

Lim, JungHa; Wood, Beatrice L.; Cheah, PoAnn

2009-01-01

Asthma is one of the most common illnesses of childhood; in the United States, nearly 9% of children have the condition (Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics, 2006). Among children with chronic illnesses, asthma is the most common cause for school absence and hospitalization (Akinbami, 2006). Asthma is a chronic disorder of the…

Use of FIA plot data in the LANDFIRE project

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Chris Toney; Matthew Rollins; Karen Short; Tracey Frescino; Ronald Tymcio; Birgit Peterson

2007-01-01

LANDFIRE is an interagency project that will generate consistent maps and data describing vegetation, fire, and fuel characteristics across the United States within a 5-year timeframe. Modeling and mapping in LANDFIRE depend extensively on a large database of georeferenced field measurements describing vegetation, site characteristics, and fuel. The LANDFIRE Reference...

Interagency and Commercial Collaboration During an Investigation of Chikungunya and Dengue Among Returning Travelers to the United States

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Jentes, Emily S.; Millman, Alexander J.; Decenteceo, Michelle; Klevos, Andrew; Biggs, Holly M.; Esposito, Douglas H.; McPherson, Heidi; Sullivan, Carmen; Voorhees, Dayton; Watkins, Jim; Anzalone, Fanancy L.; Gaul, Linda; Flores, Sal; Brunette, Gary W.; Sotir, Mark J.

2017-01-01

Public health investigations can require intensive collaboration between numerous governmental and nongovernmental organizations. We describe an investigation involving several governmental and nongovernmental partners that was successfully planned and performed in an organized, comprehensive, and timely manner with several governmental and nongovernmental partners. PMID:27601520

US Research on Wildland Fires??…with a Focus on EPA’s Efforts

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The United States spends more than $1 billion every year to fight wildfires. According to National Interagency Fire Center data, of the 10 years with the largest acreage burned, nine have occurred since 2000 (as of 2012). This period coincides with many of the warmest years on re...

OFF-SITE ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING REPORT. RADIATION MONITORING AROUND UNITED STATES NUCLEAR TEST AREAS, CALENDAR YEAR 1985

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The EMSL-LV operates an Off-Site Radiological Safety Program around the NTS and other sites as requested by the Department of Energy (DOE) under an Interagency Agreement between DOE and EPA. This report, prepared in accordance with DOE guidelines (DOE85a), covers the program acti...

Defense Infrastructure: More Accurate Data Would Allow DOD to Improve the Tracking, Management, and Security of Its Leased Facilities

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2016-03-01

they traverse land [e.g., runway, road, rail line, pipeline, fence, pavement , electrical distribution line] and are reported by a linear unit of...locations. Furthermore, these officials stated that the new risk- based Interagency Security Committee standards provide a more flexible risk-based

Interagency Training Catalog of Courses, 1972-1973.

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Civil Service Commission, Washington, DC. Bureau of Training.

Training programs offered by various Federal agencies for Federal, State and local government employees are compiled in this catalog. Designed primarily for employees in the Washington, D.C. area, the catalog is divided into Open Interagency courses and Limited Interagency courses. Interagency courses are listed by major category such as Automatic…

Environmental Assessment for Construction of the United States Air Force Technical Application Center (AFTAC) on Patrick Air Force Base, Florida (Amended)

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2010-07-01

ORGANIZATION NAME(S) AND ADDRESS(ES) SpecPro Inc,Environmental Services,12500 San Pedro Avenue Ste 670,San Antonio,TX,78216 8. PERFORMING ORGANIZATION ...FDEP’s state Clearinghouse which provided interagency review by several state organizations . The FDEP determined that the Proposed Action is consistent...locations, etc., that use more organic elements with landscaping, trees, grass, rock, and aesthetic views. The amount of impervious surface for roads and

America's Children in Brief: Key National Indicators of Well-Being, 2010

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Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics, 2010

2010-01-01

Each year since 1997, the Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics has published a report on the well-being of children and families. The Forum's signature report, "America's Children: Key National Indicators of Well-Being," provides annual updates on the well-being of children and families in the United States across…

Homeland Defense. U.S. Northern Command Has a Strong Exercise Program, but Involvement of Interagency Partners and States Can Be Improved

DTIC Science & Technology

2009-09-01

fight the nation’s wars, DOD has developed an established, authoritative, time-tested process for planning, conducting, and evaluating exercises in...of mass destruction in Clark County, Nevada • Wildfires in the western United States • 2003 World Gymnastics Championship in California • Ongoing...exercises and, therefore, will be flexible to accommodate other organizations’ training objectives; however, NORTHCOM ultimately has its own

Interagency Contracting: An Overview of Federal Procurement and Appropriations Law

DTIC Science & Technology

2010-08-30

Management Reform Act of 1994 and other authorities creating franchise funds and interagency assisting entities. Unlike multi-agency contracts, GWACs...and the FSS, franchise funds and interagency assisting entities are not themselves contracting vehicles, but they play a prominent role in...Expansion of the FSS to State and Local Governments.................................................. 22 Franchise Funds and Interagency Assisting Entities

Perspectives of The Interagency Nuclear Safety Review Panel (INSRP) on future nuclear powered space missions

DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI.GOV)

Gray, L.B.; Pyatt, D.W.; Sholtis, J.A.

1993-01-10

The Interagency Nuclear Safety Review Panel (INSRP) has provided reviews of all nuclear powered spacecraft launched by the United States. The two most recent launches were Ulysses in 1990 and Galileo in 1989. One reactor was launched in 1965 (SNAP-10A). All other U.S. space missions have utilized radioisotopic thermoelectric generators (RTGs). There are several missions in the next few years that are to be nuclear powered, including one that would utilize the Topaz II reactor purchased from Russia. INSRP must realign itself to perform parallel safety assessments of a reactor powered space mission, which has not been done in aboutmore » thirty years, and RTG powered missions.« less

34 CFR 303.523 - Interagency agreements.

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2010-07-01

... agency for paying for early intervention services (consistent with State law and the requirements of this... AND REHABILITATIVE SERVICES, DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION EARLY INTERVENTION PROGRAM FOR INFANTS AND... interagency agreements with other State-level agencies involved in the State's early intervention program...

34 CFR 303.523 - Interagency agreements.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

2011-07-01

... agency for paying for early intervention services (consistent with State law and the requirements of this... AND REHABILITATIVE SERVICES, DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION EARLY INTERVENTION PROGRAM FOR INFANTS AND... interagency agreements with other State-level agencies involved in the State's early intervention program...

Exploring Changes in Interagency Collaboration Following AIDS United's Positive Charge: A Five-Site HIV Linkage and Retention in Care Program

ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

Jain, Kriti M.; Maulsby, Cathy; Kinsky, Suzanne; Khosla, Nidhi; Charles, Vignetta; Riordan, Maura; Holtgrave, David R.

2016-01-01

Background: Many out-of-care people living with HIV have unmet basic needs and are served by loosely connected agencies. Prior research suggests that increasing agencies' coordination may lead to higher quality and better coordinated care. This study examines four U.S. interagency networks in AIDS United's HIV linkage and retention in care…

Partners in wildland fire preparedness: lessons from communities in the U.S.

Treesearch

Pamela J. Jakes; Linda Kruger; Martha Monroe; Victoria Sturtevant

2004-01-01

By almost any measure, the past decade has been severe in terms of wildland fire in the United States (Table 1). The National Interagency Fire Center (NIFC) maintains a list of ''Historically Significant Wildfires" in the US. - fires that are significant in terms of acres burned, value of the resources destroyed, or lives or property lost. Of the 34...

Top-down estimates of biomass burning emissions of black carbon in the western United States

Treesearch

Y. H. Mao; Q. B. Li; D. Chen; L. Zhang; W. -M. Hao; K.-N. Liou

2014-01-01

We estimate biomass burning and anthropogenic emissions of black carbon (BC) in the western US for May-October 2006 by inverting surface BC concentrations from the Interagency Monitoring of PROtected Visual Environment (IMPROVE) network using a global chemical transport model. We first use active fire counts from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS...

Interagency and Commercial Collaboration During an Investigation of Chikungunya and Dengue Among Returning Travelers to the United States.

PubMed

Jentes, Emily S; Millman, Alexander J; Decenteceo, Michelle; Klevos, Andrew; Biggs, Holly M; Esposito, Douglas H; McPherson, Heidi; Sullivan, Carmen; Voorhees, Dayton; Watkins, Jim; Anzalone, Fanancy L; Gaul, Linda; Flores, Sal; Brunette, Gary W; Sotir, Mark J

2017-02-08

Public health investigations can require intensive collaboration between numerous governmental and nongovernmental organizations. We describe an investigation involving several governmental and nongovernmental partners that was successfully planned and performed in an organized, comprehensive, and timely manner with several governmental and nongovernmental partners. © The American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene.

ACHP | News | Native Hawaiian Federal Interagency Working Group Created

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Search skip specific nav links Home arrow News arrow Heritage Tourism Gets Boost with House Vote Heritage Tourism Gets Boost with House Vote On July 22, 2014, the U.S. House of Representatives passed H.R. 4450 to tourism draw to the United States from people all over the world. "Brand USA" was established by

75 FR 44063 - Designation of the National Science and Technology Council to Coordinate Certain Activities Under...

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... Activities Under the Arctic Research and Policy Act of 1984 Memorandum for the Director of the Office of... of the United States, including the Arctic Research and Policy Act of 1984 (Title I of Public Law 98...) responsibility to coordinate activities assigned in sections 107 and 108 of the Act to the Interagency Arctic...

Flood risk awareness during the 2011 floods in the central United States: showcasing the importance of hydrologic data and interagency collaboration

USGS Publications Warehouse

Holmes, Robert R.; Schwein, Noreen O.; Shadie, Charles E.

2012-01-01

Floods have long had a major impact on society and the environment, evidenced by the more than 1,500 federal disaster declarations since 1952 that were associated with flooding. Calendar year 2011 was an epic year for floods in the United States, from the flooding on the Red River of the North in late spring to the Ohio, Mississippi, and Missouri River basin floods in the spring and summer to the flooding caused by Hurricane Irene along the eastern seaboard in August. As a society, we continually seek to reduce flood impacts, with these efforts loosely grouped into two categories: mitigation and risk awareness. Mitigation involves such activities as flood assessment, flood control implementation, and regulatory activities such as storm water and floodplain ordinances. Risk awareness ranges from issuance of flood forecasts and warnings to education of lay audiences about the uncertainties inherent in assessing flood probability and risk. This paper concentrates on the issue of flood risk awareness, specifically the importance of hydrologic data and good interagency communication in providing accurate and timely flood forecasts to maximize risk awareness. The 2011 floods in the central United States provide a case study of the importance of hydrologic data and the value of proper, timely, and organized communication and collaboration around the collection and dissemination of that hydrologic data in enhancing the effectiveness of flood forecasting and flood risk awareness.

Effectiveness of Interagency Cooperation at the Provincial Reconstruction Team Level in Afghanistan

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2011-04-07

Carlisle, PA: Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College, 2009. Marcella , Gabriel, ed. Affairs of State: The Interagency and National Security...Joint Operations, vi. 12 O’Neil, 4. 13 Gabriel Marcella , ed., Affairs of State: The Interagency and National Security (Carlisle, PA: Strategic Studies...O’Neil, 4. 16 Marcella , 4-6. 17 Michele A. Flournoy, "Prepared Statement For House Armed Services Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations

JACIE: A Model Partnership

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Thome, Kurt; Goldberg, Mitch; Mita, Dath; Stensaas, Gregory L.

2013-01-01

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), and the United States Geological Survey (USGS), and their associates and partners, are directly responsible for establishing and leading a unique interagency team of scientists and engineers who work together to evaluate and enhance the quality remote sensing data for commercial and government use. This team is called "the Joint Agency Commercial Imagery Evaluation (JACIE) team". The team works together to define, prioritize, assign, and assess civil and commercial image quality and jointly sponsors an annual JACIE Civil Commercial Imagery Evaluation workshop with participation support from the remote sensing calibration and validation science community.

Joint Interagency Task Force-Illicit Trafficking: Enhancing the Interagency Organizational Framework for Operations Along the Southwest Border

DTIC Science & Technology

2012-05-01

established trafficking corridors: Southern California, Arizona/ Sonora , New Mexico /West Texas, and Southeast Texas. Each RCC would absorb, consolidate... Mexico , Southwest Border, Transnational Criminal Organizations Unclassified Unclassified Unclassified Unclassified UU 39 United Stales Marine Corps...and smuggle people across the border with Mexico .” —President Barack H. Obama, August 13, 20101 The United States’ (U.S.) 2,000-mile porous

Adaptations to the Whole of Government Approach by the United States Department of State

DTIC Science & Technology

2010-06-11

lord and creator for blessing me with many talents and abilities. Filled with humility and humbleness, I realize I am ever learning , but yet to come...appreciate your willingness to make yourselves vulnerable to the challenges of life, so that I could learn to reach back and receive the values and...Contingency Operations in May 1997. The intent of this directive was to incorporate lessons learned into the interagency process on a regular basis and

Achieving Unity of Effort: Leveraging Interagency Cooperation Between the Department of Defense (DOD) and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID)

DTIC Science & Technology

2009-06-12

Government Printing Office, 2005), 2. 12 Carlos Pascual, ―Unifying our Approach to Conflict Transformation ,‖ U.S. Department of State, http...1 Peter F. Schaefer and P. Clayton Schaefer, ―Planning for Reconstruction and Transformation of Japan after WWII,‖ Applying a ‘Whole-of- Government ...Iraq and continuing challenges. Given, these experiences, senior military and civilian leaders alike have called for a ―whole of government

22 CFR 94.8 - Interagency coordinating group.

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2010-04-01

... 22 Foreign Relations 1 2010-04-01 2010-04-01 false Interagency coordinating group. 94.8 Section 94.8 Foreign Relations DEPARTMENT OF STATE LEGAL AND RELATED SERVICES INTERNATIONAL CHILD ABDUCTION § 94.8 Interagency coordinating group. The U.S. Central Authority shall nominate federal employees and...

PRIMARY AND SECONDARY ORGANIC AEROSOLS OVER THE UNITED STATES: ESTIMATES ON THE BASIS OF OBSERVED ORGANIC CARBON (OC) AND ELEMENTAL CARBON (EC), AND AIR QUALITY MODELED PRIMARY (OC/EC) RATIOS

EPA Science Inventory

The temporal and spatial distributions of primary and secondary organic carbon aerosols (OC) over the continental US during June 15 to August 31, 1999, were estimated by using observational OC and elemental carbon (EC) data from Interagency Monitoring of Protected Visual Environm...

Taking Stock: Interagency Integration in Stability Operations

DTIC Science & Technology

2012-03-01

implementation of 3000.05. In May 2009, a report to Congress highlighted the biggest challenge to integration as the lack of civilian department and agency...ORHA) and later subsumed by the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA). On May 11, 2004, NSPD 36, United States Government Operations in Iraq...military audience, although introductory presentations have been given at the U.S. Army Peacekeeping and Stability Operations Institute and Marine

Exploring the Lack of Interoperability of Databases within Department of Homeland Security Interagency Environment Concerning Maritime Port Security

DTIC Science & Technology

2009-03-01

37 Figure 8 New Information Sharing Model from United States Intelligence Community Information Sharing...PRIDE while the Coast Guard has MISSLE and the newly constructed WATCHKEEPER. All these databases contain intelligence on incoming vessels...decisions making. Experts rely heavily on future projections as hallmarks of skilled performance." (Endsley et al. 2006) The SA model above

Integrated United States Air Surveillance Governance Report

DTIC Science & Technology

2010-07-07

with examining whether and how IS departments and agencies might establish a governance mechanism to manage IS services in a manner that improves...Task Force recommends that an enduring interagency organization be established for collaborative management of IS services. It should be based on a...Committee (ISSAC)--would provide overall IS management and policy direction. IS technical work would be performed by a robust network of ISSAC

Can S/CRS Solve the United States Government’s Interagency Coordination Challenges?

DTIC Science & Technology

2008-05-22

Scientific Frontier. (New York: Basic Books, 2000), 153. 14 Seventy-seven people now staff S/CRS. Ambassador John Herbst leads the organization. He is...achievements are successful deployments with USAID to Iraq and Afghanistan. Colonel William “ Fitz ” Lee serves as the senior military advisor to...a definition of 18 Richard E. Walton and John M. Dutton. “The Management of

76 FR 24899 - National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences; Notice of Meetings

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... Act, as amended (5 U.S.C. App.), notice is hereby given of meetings of the Interagency Breast Cancer... listed below in advance of the meeting. Name of Committee: Interagency Breast Cancer and Environmental...: Interagency Breast Cancer and Environmental Research Coordinating Committee (IBCERC) State of the Science...

Implications of State Policy Changes on Mental Health Service Models for Students with Disabilities

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Lawson, Janelle E.; Cmar, Jennifer L.

2016-01-01

For over 25 years, students with disabilities in California received educationally related mental health services through interagency collaboration between school districts and county mental health agencies. After a major change in state policy that eliminated state-mandated interagency collaboration, school districts in California are now solely…

Interagency Collaboration for Young Adults with Deaf-Blindness: Toward a Common Transition Goal.

ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

Everson, Jane M.; And Others

This monograph is a compilation of the knowledge gained by the Technical Assistance Center (TAC) of the Helen Keller National Center, from training and technical assistance activities conducted with state interagency teams serving youth and young adults with deaf-blindness. The book views interagency collaboration as essential in achieving…

75 FR 14335 - Revisions to the Export Administration Regulations To Enhance U.S. Homeland Security: Addition of...

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... identified by an interagency working group that is reviewing export control issues related to homeland security. The interagency working group is made up of representatives from the Departments of Commerce, Defense, Homeland Security and State. The purpose of the interagency working group is to ensure that...

Building on a Foundation of Strength: Fiscal Year 2012 United States Army Annual Financial Report

DTIC Science & Technology

2012-01-01

competency-based training in conjunction with the Army competency management system. Â Fellowships and experience-broadening interagency, international ...operations. This section focuses on the Army’s system of internal controls to comply with such laws as the Federal Financial Management Improvement Act...accurate financial information through efficient and effective internal controls. By having effective internal controls, the Army is able to improve

Job Corps: Its Costs, Employment Outcomes, and Service to the Public. Briefing Report to the Chairman, Committee on Labor and Human Resources, United States Senate.

ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

General Accounting Office, Washington, DC.

This report evaluates the cost effectiveness of the Civilian Conservation Centers (CCCs) which are part of the Job Corps program but operated under inter-agency agreement by the Departments of Agriculture and the Interior. Data are from the program year beginning July 1, 1984. Information is presented on: (1) the costs, job placements, and…

Report of the Acquisition Advisory Panel to the Office of Federal Procurement Policy and the United States Congress (January 2007)

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2007-01-01

Business Case to Support Executive Agent Redesignation . . . . . . . . . . . . 259 Appendix B: Agency Application for Franchise Fund Pilot Program...interagency vehicles through the Depart- ment of Treasury and Department of Interior Franchise funds and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration...reauthorization of GWACs and Franchise Funds to require greater emphasis on meeting specific agency needs and furthering the overall effectiveness of

Survey for Listeria monocytogenes on ready-to-eat foods from retail establishments in the United States (2010-2013): assessing potential changes of pathogen prevalence and levels in a decade

USDA-ARS?s Scientific Manuscript database

A multi-year Interagency Listeria monocytogenes Market Basket Survey (Lm MBS) was undertaken for selected categories of refrigerated ready-to eat (RTE) foods purchased at retail in four FoodNet sites in the U.S. Eighteen product types were sampled, including RTE seafood, produce, dairy, meat, eggs,...

75 FR 62399 - Public Meeting To Solicit Input for a Strategic Plan for Federal Youth Policy

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... that the Interagency Working Group on Youth Programs solicit input from young people, State children's... Services, in its role as the Chair of the Interagency Working Group on Youth Programs, is announcing a... site for the Interagency Working Group on Youth Programs at http://www.FindYouthInfo.gov for...

75 FR 48690 - Public Meeting To Solicit Input for a Strategic Plan for Federal Youth Policy

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2010-08-11

... directing the Interagency Working Group on Youth Programs to solicit input from young people, State children... Services, in its role as the Chair of the Interagency Working Group on Youth Programs, is announcing a... site for the Interagency Working Group on Youth Programs at http://www.FindYouthInfo.gov for...

Whole of Government Approach: Maximizing Unity of Effort Between the Department of Defense (DOD), Department of State (DOS), and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID)

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2013-12-13

role in Global War on Terrorism . The goal of this study is to illustrate a framework to improve interagency cooperation though the Joint...and Edward Marks, “ The Global War on Terrorism : A Regional Approach to Coordination,” Joint Force Quarterly no. 32 (Autumn 2002): 50. 6...second mission was to provide civil support to Civilian Irregular Defense Groups (CIDG), which were established to win the loyalty of the aboriginal

75 FR 62400 - Public Meeting To Solicit Input for a Strategic Plan for Federal Youth Policy

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... directing the Interagency Working Group on Youth Programs to solicit input from young people, State children... Services, in its role as the Chair of the Interagency Working Group on Youth Programs, is announcing a... the Web site for the Interagency Working Group on Youth Programs at http://www.FindYouthInfo.gov for...

How Can the United States Army and the Interagency Community Better Define and Develop Rule of Law Doctrine and Initiatives to Include Projects Which Will Impact the Human Rights of Women in Afghanistan and Iraq?

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2009-06-12

prosecuting and punishing criminal acts. 76 In the area of family law, some Muslim countries now prohibit polygamy and divorce by the husband’s...relations.” 198 Therefore, practices of polygamy would be inconsistent with the CEDAW because it undermines women‟s equality with men and potentially

Repairing the Interagency Process

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2007-01-01

GRANT NUMBER 5c. PROGRAM ELEMENT NUMBER 6. AUTHOR(S) 5d. PROJECT NUMBER 5e. TASK NUMBER 5f. WORK UNIT NUMBER 7. PERFORMING ORGANIZATION NAME(S...8. PERFORMING ORGANIZATION REPORT NUMBER 9. SPONSORING/MONITORING AGENCY NAME(S) AND ADDRESS(ES) 10. SPONSOR/MONITOR’S ACRONYM(S) 11. SPONSOR...State and Defense. It would be a flat, streamlined organization with 10 to 15 core members, who would be permanent employees of the NSC rather than

New Jersey interagency emergency management plan.

DOT National Transportation Integrated Search

2005-09-01

This report outlines the research and work performed to lay the foundation for the : development of a New Jersey Interagency Emergency Management Plan. The : research into existing practices within the four state level transportation agencies : revea...

Climate Change Now Apparent and Unequivocal, New Report Warns

NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

Showstack, Randy

2009-06-01

Climate change is happening now in the United States and globally, and its impacts are expected to become increasingly severe for more people and places unless the rate of emissions of heat-trapping gases is substantially reduced, according to a new report, “Global Climate Change Impacts in the United States,” issued at a 16 June White House briefing. The 190-page report, a product of the interagency U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP), states that “global warming is unequivocal and primarily human-induced.” Among other key findings of the report—which drew on USGCRP results and other studies including Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reports and the Arctic Climate Impact Assessment—is that climate change will have numerous impacts on water resources, ecosystems, agriculture, coastal areas, human health, and other sectors.

Organizational and Structural Reform: Transforming the United States Government for 21st Century Contingencies

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2009-04-03

the concept calls for interagency task forces ( IATF ) co-led by a Special Representative of the President and the Commander of a military Joint Task...functional lines, civilian and military members comprise the IATF staff. Furthermore, when possible, the concept establishes the IATF early outside the...prepare and plan for the complex contingency. When deployed, the IATF relies on the military joint task force for most of its support including

Arctic Security Considerations and the U.S. Navy’s Roadmap for the Arctic

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2010-01-01

observed in the sea, in the air, and on land. Indigenous Arctic people are facing relocation and loss of communities as sea-ice melt causes increased...sea-ice melting associated with global climate change has caused leadersfrom the United States and the international community to reconsider the...of the Navy as a valued partner by the joint, interagency, and international communities . THE CHANGING ARCTIC ENVIRONMENT The Arctic has long been a

Building the Guatemalan Interagency Task Force Tecun Uman: Lessons Identified

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2015-01-01

ONE Introduction Guatemala is a major transit point for drugs going to the United States. Drugs arrive in Guatemala by sea from Colombia and Ecuador ...Univision, March 31, 2012; “Fuerza de Tarea Contrarrestará Contrabando en Frontera con México,” Emisoras Unidas, December 16, 2013; and Brenda...March 6, 2012. “Fuerza de Tarea Contrarrestará Contrabando en Frontera con México,” Emisoras Unidas, December 16, 2013. As of November 14, 2014: http

To amend the Sikes Act to promote the use of cooperative agreements under such Act for land management related to Department of Defense readiness activities and to amend title 10, United States Code, to facilitate interagency cooperation in conservation programs to avoid or reduce adverse impacts on military readiness activities.

THOMAS, 113th Congress

Rep. Bordallo, Madeleine Z. [D-GU-At Large

2013-03-12

House - 06/17/2013 Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Natural Resources. H. Rept. 113-115, Part I. (All Actions) Tracker: This bill has the status IntroducedHere are the steps for Status of Legislation:

Impacts of Climate Change on Human Health in the United ...

EPA Pesticide Factsheets

Climate change threatens human health and well-being in the United States. To address this growing threat, the Interagency Group on Climate Change and Human Health (CCHHG), a working group of the U.S. Global Change Research Program’s (USGCRP), has developed this assessment as part of the ongoing efforts of the USGCRP’s National Climate Assessment (NCA) and as called for under the President’s Climate Action Plan. The authors of this assessment have compiled and assessed current research on human health impacts of climate change and summarized the current “state of the science” for a number of key impact areas. This assessment provides a comprehensive update to the most recent detailed technical assessment for the health impacts of climate change, 2008 Synthesis and Assessment Product 4.6 (SAP 4.6) Analyses of the Effects of Global Change on Human Health and Welfare and Human Systems (CCSP 2008). It also updates and builds upon the health chapter of the third NCA (Melillo et al. 2014). The lead and coordinating Federal agencies for the USGCRP Climate and Health Assessment are the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), National Institute of Health (NIH), and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Available at https://health2016.globalchange.gov/ The interagency U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) has developed this assessment as part of the ongoing efforts of their National C

Hydrologic Unit Map -- 1978, state of South Dakota

USGS Publications Warehouse

,

1978-01-01

This map and accompanying table show Hydrologic Unites that are basically hydrographic in nature. The Cataloging Unites shown supplant the Cataloging Units previously depicted n the 1974 State Hydrologic Unit Map. The boundaries as shown have been adapted from the 1974 State Hydrologic Unit Map, "The Catalog of Information on Water Data" (1972), "Water Resources Regions and Subregions for the National Assessment of Water and Related Land Resources" by the U.S. Water Resources Council (1970), "River Basin of the United States" by the U.S. Soil Conservation Service (1963, 1970), "River Basin Maps Showing Hydrologic Stations" by the Inter-Agency Committee on Water Resources, Subcommittee on Hydrology (1961), and State planning maps. The Political Subdivision has been adopted from "Counties and County Equivalents of the States if the United States" presented in Federal Information Processing Standards Publication 6-2, issued by the National Bureau of Standards (1973) in which each county or county equivalent is identified by a 2-character State code and a 3-character county code. The Regions, Subregions and Accounting Units are aggregates of the Cataloging Unites. The Regions and Sub regions are currently (1978) used by the U.S> Water Resources Council for comprehensive planning, including the National Assessment, and as a standard geographical framework for more detailed water and related land-resources planning. The Accounting Units are those currently (1978) in use by the U.S. Geological Survey for managing the National Water Data Network. This map was revised to include a boundary realinement between Cataloging Units 10140103 and 10160009.

Homeland Security Interagency Support. (Joint Center for Lessons Learned Quarterly Bulletin. Volume 4, Issue 2, March 2002)

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2002-03-01

sections consists of four units, the Domestic Terrorism Operations Unit, the WMD Operations Unit, the WMD Countermeasures Unit, and Special Events Management Unit...Countermeasures Unit Chief Special Events Management Unit Chief Domestic Terrorism/ Counterterrorism Section Chief International Terrorism Section Asstistant

Comparison. US P-61 and Delft sediment samplers

USGS Publications Warehouse

Beverage, Joseph P.; Williams, David T.

1990-01-01

The Delft Bottle (DB) is a flow-through device designed by the Delft Hydraulic Laboratory (DHL), The Netherlands, to sample sand-sized sediment suspended in streams. The US P-61 sampler was designed by the Federal Interagency Sedimentation Project (FISP) at the St. Anthony Falls Hydraulic Laboratory, Minneapolis, Minnesota, to collect suspended sediment from deep, swift rivers. The results of two point-sampling tests in the United States, the Mississippi River near Vicksburg, Mississippi, in 1983 and the Colorado River near Blythe, California, in 1984, are provided in this report. These studies compare sand-transport rates, rather than total sediment-transport rates, because fine material washes through the DB sampler. In the United States, the commonly used limits for sand-sized material are 0.062 mm to 2.00 mm (Vanoni 1975).

Terrestrial ecosystems: national inventory of vegetation and land use

USGS Publications Warehouse

Gergely, Kevin J.; McKerrow, Alexa

2013-11-12

The Gap Analysis Program (GAP)/Landscape Fire and Resource Management Planning Tools (LANDFIRE) National Terrestrial Ecosystems Data represents detailed data on the vegetation and land-use patterns of the United States, including Alaska, Hawaii, and Puerto Rico. This national dataset combines detailed land cover data generated by the GAP with LANDFIRE data (http://www.landfire.gov/). LANDFIRE is an interagency vegetation, fire, and fuel characteristics mapping program sponsored by the U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) and the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service.

Beyond Joint: Operationalizing Inter-Agency Coordination to Achieve Unity of Action

DTIC Science & Technology

2014-04-01

was palatable .2 Lest the reader be concerned that I will advocate that small wars are the future pattern of warfare that the United States will...conducting conflict. While the sources of future conflict are unchanged from those observed throughout history of energy security, access to food and...11e3-b182- 1b3bb2eb474c_story.html (last accessed 30 Mar 14). Wass de Czege, BG Huba. “Operational Art: Continually Making Two Kinds of Choices In

A spatial database of wildfires in the United States, 1992-2011

NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

Short, K. C.

2013-07-01

The statistical analysis of wildfire activity is a critical component of national wildfire planning, operations, and research in the United States (US). However, there are multiple federal, state, and local entities with wildfire protection and reporting responsibilities in the US, and no single, unified system of wildfire record-keeping exists. To conduct even the most rudimentary interagency analyses of wildfire numbers and area burned from the authoritative systems of record, one must harvest records from dozens of disparate databases with inconsistent information content. The onus is then on the user to check for and purge redundant records of the same fire (i.e. multijurisdictional incidents with responses reported by several agencies or departments) after pooling data from different sources. Here we describe our efforts to acquire, standardize, error-check, compile, scrub, and evaluate the completeness of US federal, state, and local wildfire records from 1992-2011 for the national, interagency Fire Program Analysis (FPA) application. The resulting FPA Fire-occurrence Database (FPA FOD) includes nearly 1.6 million records from the 20 yr period, with values for at least the following core data elements: location at least as precise as a Public Land Survey System section (2.6 km2 grid), discovery date, and final fire size. The FPA FOD is publicly available from the Research Data Archive of the US Department of Agriculture, Forest Service (doi:10.2737/RDS-2013-0009). While necessarily incomplete in some aspects, the database is intended to facilitate fairly high-resolution geospatial analysis of US wildfire activity over the past two decades, based on available information from the authoritative systems of record.

A spatial database of wildfires in the United States, 1992-2011

NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

Short, K. C.

2014-01-01

The statistical analysis of wildfire activity is a critical component of national wildfire planning, operations, and research in the United States (US). However, there are multiple federal, state, and local entities with wildfire protection and reporting responsibilities in the US, and no single, unified system of wildfire record keeping exists. To conduct even the most rudimentary interagency analyses of wildfire numbers and area burned from the authoritative systems of record, one must harvest records from dozens of disparate databases with inconsistent information content. The onus is then on the user to check for and purge redundant records of the same fire (i.e., multijurisdictional incidents with responses reported by several agencies or departments) after pooling data from different sources. Here we describe our efforts to acquire, standardize, error-check, compile, scrub, and evaluate the completeness of US federal, state, and local wildfire records from 1992-2011 for the national, interagency Fire Program Analysis (FPA) application. The resulting FPA Fire-Occurrence Database (FPA FOD) includes nearly 1.6 million records from the 20 yr period, with values for at least the following core data elements: location, at least as precise as a Public Land Survey System section (2.6 km2 grid), discovery date, and final fire size. The FPA FOD is publicly available from the Research Data Archive of the US Department of Agriculture, Forest Service (doi:10.2737/RDS-2013-0009). While necessarily incomplete in some aspects, the database is intended to facilitate fairly high-resolution geospatial analysis of US wildfire activity over the past two decades, based on available information from the authoritative systems of record.

Synchronizing USG Efforts Toward Collaborative Healthcare Policy Making in Iraq

DTIC Science & Technology

2009-01-15

46; see also Amanda Smith, “Strategic Communication: Interagency Rhetoric and Consistent Interpretation,” in The Interagency and Counterinsurgency...December 7, 2005; see also Douglas C. Lovelace , Jr., “Foreword” in Stability Operations and State-Building: Continuities and Contingencies, ed. Greg

InterAgency Journal (Volume 2, Issue 2, Summer 2011)

DTIC Science & Technology

2011-01-01

Interagency Task Force for Irregular Warfare ( IATF -IW). It is fair to say that in prosecuting foreign policy which currently includes open warfare...With the introduction of the IATF -IW, CENTCOM is actively developing and promoting plans in conjunction with the civilian entities of government. The...opposite extreme, in the IATF - IW being the agent of the State Department. This subordination to State Department lead ensured rebuilding Iraq would

The National Security Policy Process: The National Security Council and Interagency System

DTIC Science & Technology

2008-11-24

Service Officer who has served as the State Department’s Deputy Executive Secretary, and also was U.S. Ambassador to the State of Qatar from 1998...creation under President Truman. It describes the current NSC organizational structure and processes, and defines the roles of the key departments and...of doing business. Finally, the paper comments upon how the interagency process is incorporating new organizational structures associated with

USGEO Common Framework For Earth Observation Data

NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

Walter, J.; de la Beaujardiere, J.; Bristol, S.

2015-12-01

The United States Group on Earth Observations (USGEO) Data Management Working Group (DMWG) is an interagency body established by the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP). The primary purpose of this group is to foster interagency cooperation and collaboration for improving the life cycle data management practices and interoperability of federally held earth observation data consistent with White House documents including the National Strategy for Civil Earth Observations, the National Plan for Civil Earth Observations, and the May 2013 Executive Order on Open Data (M-13-13). The members of the USGEO DMWG are working on developing a Common Framework for Earth Observation Data that consists of recommended standards and approaches for realizing these goals as well as improving the discoverability, accessibility, and usability of federally held earth observation data. These recommendations will also guide work being performed under the Big Earth Data Initiative (BEDI). This talk will summarize the Common Framework, the philosophy behind it, and next steps forward.

75 FR 59263 - Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection Renewal; Comment Request

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2010-09-27

...: Interagency Guidance on Sound Incentive Compensation Practices. (3064-0175). DATES: Comments must be submitted...: Interagency Guidance on Sound Incentive Compensation Practices. OMB Number: 3064-0175. Form Number: None... Collection: The Guidance would help ensure that incentive compensation policies at insured state non-member...

Apache Trail, Tonto National Forest : Observations, Considerations, and Recommendations from the Interagency Transportation Assistance Group (TAG)

DOT National Transportation Integrated Search

2016-03-03

This report summarizes the observations and findings of an interagency transportation assistance group (TAG) convened to discuss the long-term future of Arizona State Route 88, also known as the Apache Trail, a historic road on the Tonto Nation...

Enhancing Family Roles in EI Programs.

ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

Popper, Barbara K.

1997-01-01

Input from a variety of viewpoints is essential in complex policy discussions. Families serving on local interagency coordinating councils (LICCs) and state interagency coordinating councils (SICCs) should reflect the diversity of families served within the early intervention or preschool service system with respect to income level, ethnicity,…

Surveillance for Asian H5N1 avian influenza in the United States

USGS Publications Warehouse

Ip, Hon S.; Slota, Paul G.

2006-01-01

Increasing concern over the potential for migratory birds to introduce the Asian H5N1 strain of avian influenza to North America prompted the White House Policy Coordinating Committee for Pandemic Influenza Preparedness to request that the U.S. Departments of Agriculture (USDA) and Interior (DOI) develop a plan for the early detection of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) in the United States. To promote coordination among wildlife, agriculture, and human health agencies on HPAI surveillance efforts, the two Departments worked with representatives from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the International Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies, and the Alaska Department of Fish and Game to develop the U.S. Interagency Strategic Plan for Early Detection of Asian H5N1 Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza in Wild Migratory Birds.

76 FR 37119 - Interagency Committee on Smoking and Health, (ICSH)

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2011-06-24

... Committee on Smoking and Health, (ICSH) In accordance with section 10(a)(2) of the Federal Advisory... July 18, 2011. Purpose: The Interagency Committee on Smoking and Health advises the Secretary... private entities, Federal agencies, and State and local public health agencies with respect to smoking and...

Experiences in Interagency and International Interfaces for Mission Support

NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)

Dell, G. T.; Mitchell, W. J.; Thompson, T. W.; Cappellari, J. O., Jr.; Flores-Amaya, F.

1996-01-01

The Flight Dynamics Division (FDD) of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Goddard Space Flight Center (GFSC) provides extensive support and products for Space Shuttle missions, expendable launch vehicle launches, and routine on-orbit operations for a variety of spacecraft. A major challenge in providing support for these missions is defining and generating the products required for mission support and developing the method by which these products are exchanged between supporting agencies. As interagency and international cooperation has increased in the space community, the FDD customer base has grown and with it the number and variety of external interfaces and product definitions. Currently, the FDD has working interfaces with the NASA Space and Ground Networks, the Johnson Space Center, the White Sands Complex, the Jet propulsion Laboratory (including the Deep Space Network), the United States Air Force, the Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales, the German Spaceflight Operations Center, the European Space Agency, and the National Space Development Agency of Japan. With the increasing spectrum of possible data product definitions and delivery methods, the FDD is using its extensive interagency experience to improve its support of established customers and to provide leadership in adapting/developing new interfaces. This paper describes the evolution of the interfaces between the FDD and its customers, discusses many of the joint activities ith these customers, and summarizes key lessons learned that can be applied to current and future support.

Large Unmanned Aircraft System Operations in the National Airspace System - the NASA 2007 Western States Fire Missions

NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)

Buoni, Gregory P.; Howell, Kathleen M.

2008-01-01

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Dryden Flight Research Center (DFRC) Ikhana (ee-kah-nah) project executed the 2007 Western States Fire Missions over several of the western United States using an MQ-9 unmanned aircraft system (UAS) in partnership with the NASA Ames Research Center, the United States Forest Service, and the National Interagency Fire Center. The missions were intended to supply infrared imagery of wildfires to firefighters on the ground within 10 minutes of data acquisition. For each of the eight missions, the NASA DFRC notified the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) of specific flight plans within three or fewer days of the flight. The FAA Certificate of Waiver or Authorization (commonly referred to as a COA ) process was used to obtain access to the United States National Airspace System. Significant time and resources were necessary to develop the COA application, perform mission planning, and define and approve emergency landing sites. Unique aspects of flying unmanned aircraft created challenges to mission operations. Close coordination with FAA headquarters and air traffic control resulted in safe and successful missions that assisted firefighters by providing near-real-time imagery of selected wildfires.

Earthquake Hazards Program Could Have New Leadership

NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

Showstack, Randy

The interagency National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program (NEHRP) in the United States will have new leadership and increased authorized funding, if bipartisan re-authorization legislation approved by the House of Representatives on 1 October becomes law. The bill, H. R. 2608, would elevate the National Institute of Standards and Technology as the lead agency for planning and coordinating NEHRP, replacing the Federal Emergency Management Agency in that role. The NEHRP, established by Congress in 1977, also includes the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and the National Science Foundation (NSF) as agency partners.

Using radar to advance migratory bird management: An interagency collaboration

USGS Publications Warehouse

Sojda, R.; Ruth, J.M.; Barrow, W.C.; Dawson, D.K.; Diehl, R.H.; Manville, A.; Green, M.T.; Krueper, D.J.; Johnston, S.

2005-01-01

Migratory birds face many changes to the landscapes they traverse and the habitats they use. Wind turbines and communications towers, which pose hazards to birds and bats in flight, are being erected across the United States and offshore. Human activities can also destroy or threaten habitats critical to birds during migratory passage, and climate change appears to be altering migratory patterns. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) and other agencies are under increasing pressure to identify and evaluate movement patterns and habitats used during migration and other times.

Avian influenza surveillance of wild birds

USGS Publications Warehouse

Slota, Paul

2007-01-01

The President's National Strategy for Pandemic Influenza directs federal agencies to expand the surveillance of United States domestic livestock and wildlife to ensure early warning of hightly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) in the U.S. The immediate concern is a potential introduction of HPAI H5N1 virus into the U.S. The presidential directive resulted in the U.S. Interagency Strategic Plan for Early Detection of H5N1 Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza in Wild Migratory Birds (referred to as the Wild Bird Surveillance Plan or the Plan).

Summary of preliminary step-trend analysis from the Interagency Whitebark Pine Long-termMonitoring Program—2004-2013

USGS Publications Warehouse

Legg, Kristin; Shanahan, Erin; Daley, Rob; Irvine, Kathryn M.

2014-01-01

In mixed and dominant stands, whitebark pine (Pinus albicaulis) occurs in over two million acres within the six national forests and two national parks that comprise the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem (GYE). Currently, whitebark pine, an ecologically important species, is impacted by multiple ecological disturbances; white pine blister rust (Cronartium ribicola), mountain pine beetle (Dendroctonus ponderosae), wildfire, and climate change all pose significant threats to the persistence of whitebark pine populations. Substantial declines in whitebark pine populations have been documented throughout its range.Under the auspices of the Greater Yellowstone Coordinating Committee (GYCC), several agencies began a collaborative, long-term monitoring program to track and document the status of whitebark pine across the GYE. This alliance resulted in the formation of the Greater Yellowstone Whitebark Pine Monitoring Working Group (GYWPMWG), which consists of representatives from the U.S. Forest Service (USFS), National Park Service (NPS), U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), and Montana State University (MSU). This groundbased monitoring program was initiated in 2004 and follows a peer-reviewed protocol (GYWPMWG 2011). The program is led by the Greater Yellowstone Inventory and Monitoring Network (GRYN) of the National Park Service in coordination with multiple agencies. More information about this monitoring effort is available at: http://science. nature.nps.gov/im/units/gryn/monitor/whitebark_pine.cfm. The purpose of this report is to provide a draft summary of the first step-trend analysis for the interagency, long-term monitoring of whitebark pine health to the Interagency Grizzly Bear Study Team (IGBST) as part of a synthesis of the state of whitebark pine in the GYE. Due to the various stages of the analyses and reporting, this is the most efficient way to provide these results to the IGBST.

Interagency Transition Team Development and Facilitation. Essential Tools.

ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

Stodden, Robert A.; Brown, Steven E.; Galloway, L. M.; Mrazek, Susan; Noy, Liora

2005-01-01

The purpose of this Essential Tool is to assist state-level transition coordinators and others responsible for forming, conducting, and evaluating the performance of interagency transition teams that are focused upon the school and post-school needs of youth with disabilities. This Essential Tool is designed to guide the coordination efforts of…

Interagency Symposium on University Research in Transportation Noise (2nd) Held at North Carolina State University, Raleigh on June 5-7, 1974. Book of Proceedings, Volume 2

DTIC Science & Technology

1974-06-01

RESEARCH IN TRANSPORTATION NOISE (2ND), HELD AT NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY, RALEIGH, ON JUNE 5-7, 1974 BOOK OF PROCEEDINGS, VOLUME II NORTH... Research in Transportation Noise, Vol. II ?. Recipient𔃻. Accession No. 5. Report Dire June 5-7, 1974 6. 7. Aurhor(s> 8. Performing...Interagency Symposium on University Research in Transportation Noise was to continue to focus attention on university research in basic and applied

ALLOCATION OF MONITORING SITES FOR REGIONAL SURVEYS OF HYDROLOGIC UNITS

EPA Science Inventory

In order to characterize the ecological condition of Pacific Northwest watersheds and their aquatic ecosystems, interagency teams have developed the Aquatic and Riparian Effectiveness Monitoring Plan. Monitoring is targeted at the subwatershed scale (6th-field Hydrologic Unit Co...

Announcement—guidance document for acquiring reliable data in ecological restoration projects

USGS Publications Warehouse

Stapanian, Martin A.; Rodriguez, Karen; Lewis, Timothy E.; Blume, Louis; Palmer, Craig J.; Walters, Lynn; Schofield, Judith; Amos, Molly M.; Bucher, Adam

2016-01-01

The Laurentian Great Lakes are undergoing intensive ecological restoration in Canada and the United States. In the United States, an interagency committee was formed to facilitate implementation of quality practices for federally funded restoration projects in the Great Lakes basin. The Committee's responsibilities include developing a guidance document that will provide a common approach to the application of quality assurance and quality control (QA/QC) practices for restoration projects. The document will serve as a “how-to” guide for ensuring data quality during each aspect of ecological restoration projects. In addition, the document will provide suggestions on linking QA/QC data with the routine project data and hints on creating detailed supporting documentation. Finally, the document will advocate integrating all components of the project, including QA/QC applications, into an overarching decision-support framework. The guidance document is expected to be released by the U.S. EPA Great Lakes National Program Office in 2017.

Quantitative structure-activity relationships for predicting potential ecological hazard of organic chemicals for use in regulatory risk assessments.

PubMed

Comber, Mike H I; Walker, John D; Watts, Chris; Hermens, Joop

2003-08-01

The use of quantitative structure-activity relationships (QSARs) for deriving the predicted no-effect concentration of discrete organic chemicals for the purposes of conducting a regulatory risk assessment in Europe and the United States is described. In the United States, under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA), the TSCA Interagency Testing Committee and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (U.S. EPA) use SARs to estimate the hazards of existing and new chemicals. Within the Existing Substances Regulation in Europe, QSARs may be used for data evaluation, test strategy indications, and the identification and filling of data gaps. To illustrate where and when QSARs may be useful and when their use is more problematic, an example, methyl tertiary-butyl ether (MTBE), is given and the predicted and experimental data are compared. Improvements needed for new QSARs and tools for developing and using QSARs are discussed.

Joint Interagency Task Force-South: The Best Known, Least Understood Interagency Success (INSS Strategic Perspectives, Number 5, June 2011)

DTIC Science & Technology

2011-06-01

CONTRACT NUMBER 5b. GRANT NUMBER 5c. PROGRAM ELEMENT NUMBER 6. AUTHOR(S) 5d. PROJECT NUMBER 5e. TASK NUMBER 5f. WORK UNIT NUMBER 7. PERFORMING ...20319 8. PERFORMING ORGANIZATION REPORT NUMBER 9. SPONSORING/MONITORING AGENCY NAME(S) AND ADDRESS(ES) 10. SPONSOR/MONITOR’S ACRONYM(S) 11. SPONSOR...its subcomponents execute their mission by performing research and analysis, publication, conferences, policy support, and outreach. The mission of

Intensified dust storm activity and Valley fever infection in the southwestern United States

NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

Tong, Daniel Q.; Wang, Julian X. L.; Gill, Thomas E.; Lei, Hang; Wang, Binyu

2017-05-01

Climate models have consistently projected a drying trend in the southwestern United States, aiding speculation of increasing dust storms in this region. Long-term climatology is essential to documenting the dust trend and its response to climate variability. We have reconstructed long-term dust climatology in the western United States, based on a comprehensive dust identification method and continuous aerosol observations from the Interagency Monitoring of Protected Visual Environments (IMPROVE) network. We report here direct evidence of rapid intensification of dust storm activity over American deserts in the past decades (1988-2011), in contrast to reported decreasing trends in Asia and Africa. The frequency of windblown dust storms has increased 240% from 1990s to 2000s. This dust trend is associated with large-scale variations of sea surface temperature in the Pacific Ocean, with the strongest correlation with the Pacific Decadal Oscillation. We further investigate the relationship between dust and Valley fever, a fast-rising infectious disease caused by inhaling soil-dwelling fungus (Coccidioides immitis and C. posadasii) in the southwestern United States. The frequency of dust storms is found to be correlated with Valley fever incidences, with a coefficient (r) comparable to or stronger than that with other factors believed to control the disease in two endemic centers (Maricopa and Pima County, Arizona).

75 FR 67752 - Request for Nominations of Candidates To Serve on the Interagency Committee on Smoking and Health...

Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

2010-11-03

... DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES (HHS) Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Request for Nominations of Candidates To Serve on the Interagency Committee on Smoking and Health, (ICSH... entities, federal agencies, and State and local public health agencies with respect to smoking and health...

Alternatives to animal testing: information resources via the Internet and World Wide Web.

PubMed

Hakkinen, P J Bert; Green, Dianne K

2002-04-25

Many countries, including the United States, Canada, European Union member states, and others, require that a comprehensive search for possible alternatives be completed before beginning some or all research involving animals. Completing comprehensive alternatives searches and keeping current with information associated with alternatives to animal testing is a challenge that will be made easier as people throughout the world gain access to the Internet and World Wide Web. Numerous Internet and World Wide Web resources are available to provide guidance and other information on in vitro and other alternatives to animal testing. A comprehensive Web site is Alternatives to Animal Testing on the Web (Altweb), which serves as an online clearinghouse for resources, information, and news about alternatives to animal testing. Examples of other important Web sites include the joint one for the (US) Interagency Coordinating Committee on the Validation of Alternative Methods (ICCVAM) and the National Toxicology Program (NTP) Interagency Center for the Evaluation of Alternative Toxicological Methods (NICEATM) and the Norwegian Reference Centre for Laboratory Animal Science and Alternatives (The NORINA database). Internet mailing lists and online access to bulletin boards, discussion areas, newsletters, and journals are other ways to access and share information to stay current with alternatives to animal testing.

Genetic privacy and non-discrimination.

PubMed

Romeo Casabona, Carlos María

2011-01-01

The UN Inter-Agency Committee on Bioethics met for its tenth meeting at the UNESCO headquarters in Paris on 4-5th March 2011. Member organisations such as the WHO and UNESCO were in attendance alongside associate members such as the Council for Europe, the European Commission, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development and the World Trade Organisation. Discussion centred on the theme "genetic privacy and nondiscrimination". The United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) had previously considered, from a legal and ethical perspective, the implications of increasingly sophisticated technologies for genetic privacy and non-discrimination in fields such as medicine, employment and insurance. Thus, the ECOSOC requested that UNESCO report on relevant developments in the field of genetic privacy and non-discrimination. In parallel with a consultation process with member states, UNESCO launched a consultation with the UN Interagency Committee on Bioethics. This article analyses the report presented by the author concerning the analysis of the current contentions in the field and illustrates attempts at responding on a normative level to a perceived threat to genetic privacy and non-discrimination.

National Environmental Change Information System Case Study

NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)

Goodman, S. J.; Ritschard, R.; Estes, M. G., Jr.; Hatch, U.

2001-01-01

The Global Hydrology and Climate Center and NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center conducted a fact-finding case study for the Data Management Working Group (DMWG), now referred to as the Data and Information Working Group (DIWG), of the U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) to determine the feasibility of an interagency National Environmental Change Information System (NECIS). In order to better understand the data and information needs of policy and decision makers at the national, state, and local level, the DIWG asked the case study team to choose a regional water resources issue in the southeastern United States that had an impact on a diverse group of stakeholders. The southeastern United States was also of interest because the region experiences interannual climatic variations and impacts due to El Nino and La Nina. Jointly, with input from the DIWG, a focus on future water resources planning in the Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint (ACF) River basins of Alabama, Georgia, and Florida was selected. A tristate compact and water allocation formula is currently being negotiated between the states and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (COE) that will affect the availability of water among competing uses within the ACF River basin. All major reservoirs on the ACF are federally owned and operated by the U.S. Army COE. A similar two-state negotiation is ongoing that addresses the water allocations in the adjacent Alabama-Coosa-Tallapoosa (ACT) River basin, which extends from northwest Georgia to Mobile Bay. The ACF and ACT basins are the subject of a comprehensive river basin study involving many stakeholders. The key objectives of this case study were to identify specific data and information needs of key stakeholders in the ACF region, determine what capabilities are needed to provide the most practical response to these user requests, and to identify any limitations in the use of federal data and information. The NECIS case study followed the terms of reference developed by the interagency DIWG. The case study "lessons learned" and "key findings" offer guidelines and considerations to the DMWG for the development and implementation of a NECIS that would support the data and information needs of policy and decision makers at the national, state, and local level.

Evaluation Summary of the Expanding Opportunities Interagency Inclusion Initiative: Increasing and Enhancing Access, Participation and Supports for All Children in High Quality Inclusive Programs and Services

ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

National Early Childhood Technical Assistance Center (NECTAC), 2011

2011-01-01

This paper describes the impetus for creating the Expanding Opportunities Interagency Inclusion Initiative and achievements to date in identifying and implementing effective and efficient inclusion strategies in the participating states. In March 2004, the Child Care Bureau (CCB) (renamed the Office of Child Care) and the Administration on…

A Case Study in Interagency Collaboration: Colorado Migrant Health Program--Colorado Migrant Education Program. Final Report Migrant Education Health Program, 1987.

ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

Colorado State Dept. of Health, Denver.

This report of Colorado's 1987 Migrant Education Health Program details activities under the program, a cooperative undertaking by the state Health and Education departments. The report was written to provide: (1) assurance that the program's services have been within the scope and financial estimates of the interagency agreement; (2) a body of…

Prevalence and correlates of cryptococcal antigen positivity among AIDS patients--United States, 1986-2012.

PubMed

McKenney, Jennie; Smith, Rachel M; Chiller, Tom M; Detels, Roger; French, Audrey; Margolick, Joseph; Klausner, Jeffrey D

2014-07-11

Cryptococcal meningitis (CM) is one of the leading opportunistic infections associated with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection. The worldwide burden of CM among persons living with HIV/acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) was estimated in 2009 to be 957,900 cases, with approximately 624,700 deaths annually. The high burden of CM globally comes despite the fact that cryptococcal antigen (CrAg) is detectable weeks before the onset of symptoms, allowing screening for cryptococcal infection and early treatment to prevent CM and CM-related mortality (2). However, few studies have been conducted in the United States to assess the prevalence of cryptococcal infection. To quantify the prevalence of undiagnosed cryptococcal infection in HIV-infected persons in the United States during 1986-2012, stored sera from 1,872 participants in the Multicenter AIDS Cohort Study and the Women's Interagency HIV Study with CD4 T-cell counts <100 cells/µL were screened for CrAg, using the CrAg Lateral Flow Assay (LFA) (Immy, Inc.). This report describes the results of that analysis, which indicated the overall prevalence of CrAg positivity in this population to be 2.9% (95% confidence interval [CI] = 2.2%-3.7%).

The United States national volcanic ash operations plan for aviation

USGS Publications Warehouse

Albersheim, Steven; Guffanti, Marianne

2009-01-01

Volcanic-ash clouds are a known hazard to aviation, requiring that aircraft be warned away from ash-contaminated airspace. The exposure of aviation to potential hazards from volcanoes in the United States is significant. In support of existing interagency operations to detect and track volcanic-ash clouds, the United States has prepared a National Volcanic Ash Operations Plan for Aviation to strengthen the warning process in its airspace. The US National Plan documents the responsibilities, communication protocols, and prescribed hazard messages of the Federal Aviation Administration, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, US Geological Survey, and Air Force Weather Agency. The plan introduces a new message format, a Volcano Observatory Notice for Aviation, to provide clear, concise information about volcanic activity, including precursory unrest, to air-traffic controllers (for use in Notices to Airmen) and other aviation users. The plan is online at http://www.ofcm.gov/p35-nvaopa/pdf/FCM-P35-2007-NVAOPA.pdf. While the plan provides general operational practices, it remains the responsibility of the federal agencies involved to implement the described procedures through orders, directives, etc. Since the plan mirrors global guidelines of the International Civil Aviation Organization, it also provides an example that could be adapted by other countries.

5 CFR 410.305 - Establishing and using interagency training.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

2011-01-01

... training programs developed for its employees of other agencies under section 4120 of title 5, United... REGULATIONS TRAINING Establishing and Implementing Training Programs § 410.305 Establishing and using...

Who Should Have the Hammer? Leadership of SSTR Planning and Operations

DTIC Science & Technology

2009-10-23

Security Presidential Directive/NSPD-44 was produced which clarified governmental management of reconstruction and stabilization efforts. 1 Additionally...President, “ Management of Interagency Efforts Concerning Reconstruction and Stabilization, pp. 1 2 U.S. Department of Defense, DoDD 3000.05, pp.1 3 U.S...from regional and local State personnel, and conditional stand up of teams within the Interagency Management System. 16 Defense Department guidance

Affairs of State: The Interagency and National Security

DTIC Science & Technology

2008-12-01

and Powell and Rumsfeld during the first term of George W. Bush), regularly scheduled PC meetings allow for such differences to be aired and... schedules , operations orders, intelligence briefings, and liaison officers provided redundant layers of cross-checks and communications.1 It was a bright...from those in the executive branch. The timing for approving money works on a schedule that is only partly amenable to interagency coordination or

Early detection and rapid response

USGS Publications Warehouse

Westbrooks, Randy G.; Eplee, Robert E.; Simberloff, Daniel; Rejmánek, Marcel

2011-01-01

Prevention is the first line of defense against introduced invasive species - it is always preferable to prevent the introduction of new invaders into a region or country. However, it is not always possible to detect all alien hitchhikers imported in cargo, or to predict with any degree of certainty which introduced species will become invasive over time. Fortunately, the majority of introduced plants and animals don't become invasive. But, according to scientists at Cornell University, costs and losses due to species that do become invasive are now estimated to be over $137 billion/year in the United States. Early detection and rapid response (EDRR) is the second line of defense against introduced invasive species - EDRR is the preferred management strategy for preventing the establishment and spread of invasive species. Over the past 50 years, there has been a gradual shift away from large and medium scale federal/state single-agency-led weed eradication programs in the United States, to smaller interagency-led projects involving impacted and potential stakeholders. The importance of volunteer weed spotters in detecting and reporting suspected new invasive species has also been recognized in recent years.

Information resources in the USA on new and renewable energy: a description and directory

DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI.GOV)

Not Available

1981-06-01

This report is a contribution of the United States of America to preparations for the 1981 United Nations Conference on New and Renewable Sources of Energy. It describes the production dissemination, and availability of US scientific and technical information about new and renewable energy resources, the policy framework within which the technologies are developed, and the roles of public and private sectors. It also contains a directory of sources of additional information - printed material, computerized data bases, institutional services, and personal contacts - about the use of new and renewable energy. This report was prepared through the assistance ofmore » the Department of Energy's Technical Information Center, with funding and guidance from the Department of Energy and advice from an Interagency Task Force led by the Department of State. Inquiries about its contents should be addressed to the US Department of Energy, Technical Information Center, P.O. Box 62, Oak Ridge, TN 37830.« less

NOAA Marine and Arctic Monitoring Using UASs

NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

Jacobs, T.; Coffey, J. J.; Hood, R. E.; Hall, P.; Adler, J.

2014-12-01

Unmanned systems have the potential to efficiently, effectively, economically and safely bridging critical observation requirements in an environmentally friendly manner. As the United States' Marine and Arctic areas of interest expand and include hard-to-reach regions of the Earth (such as the Arctic and remote oceanic areas) optimizing unmanned capabilities will be needed to advance the United States' science, technology and security efforts. Through increased multi-mission and multi-agency operations using improved inter-operable and autonomous unmanned systems, the research and operations communities will better collect environmental intelligence and better protect our Country against hazardous weather, environmental, marine and polar hazards. This presentation will examine NOAA's Marine and Arctic Monitoring UAS strategies which includes developing a coordinated effort to maximize the efficiency and capabilities of unmanned systems across the federal government and research partners. Numerous intra- and inter-agency operational demonstrations and assessments have been made to verify and validated these strategies. The presentation will also discuss the requisite sUAS capabilities and our experience in using them.

Molecular Surveillance of Low Pathogenic Avian Influenza Viruses in Wild Birds across the United States: Inferences from the Hemagglutinin Gene

PubMed Central

Piaggio, Antoinette J.; Shriner, Susan A.; VanDalen, Kaci K.; Franklin, Alan B.; Anderson, Theodore D.; Kolokotronis, Sergios-Orestis

2012-01-01

A United States interagency avian influenza surveillance plan was initiated in 2006 for early detection of highly pathogenic avian influenza viruses (HPAIV) in wild birds. The plan included a variety of wild bird sampling strategies including the testing of fecal samples from aquatic areas throughout the United States from April 2006 through December 2007. Although HPAIV was not detected through this surveillance effort we were able to obtain 759 fecal samples that were positive for low pathogenic avian influenza virus (LPAIV). We used 136 DNA sequences obtained from these samples along with samples from a public influenza sequence database for a phylogenetic assessment of hemagglutinin (HA) diversity in the United States. We analyzed sequences from all HA subtypes except H5, H7, H14 and H15 to examine genetic variation, exchange between Eurasia and North America, and geographic distribution of LPAIV in wild birds in the United States. This study confirms intercontinental exchange of some HA subtypes (including a newly documented H9 exchange event), as well as identifies subtypes that do not regularly experience intercontinental gene flow but have been circulating and evolving in North America for at least the past 20 years. These HA subtypes have high levels of genetic diversity with many lineages co-circulating within the wild birds of North America. The surveillance effort that provided these samples demonstrates that such efforts, albeit labor-intensive, provide important information about the ecology of LPAIV circulating in North America. PMID:23226543

Interagency telemetry arraying for Voyager-Neptune encounter

NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)

Brown, D. W.; Brundage, W. D.; Ulvestad, J. S.; Kent, S. S.; Bartos, K. P.

1990-01-01

The reception capability of the Deep Space Network (DSN) has been improved over the years by increasing both the size and number of antennas at each complex to meet spacecraft-support requirements. However, even more aperture was required for the final planetary encounters of the Voyager 2 spacecraft. This need was met by arraying one radio astronomy observatory with the DSN complex in the United States and another with the complex in Australia. Following a review of augmentation for the Uranus encounter, both the preparation at the National Radio Astronomy (NRAO) Very Large Array (VLA) and the Neptune encounter results for the Parkes-Canberra and VLA-Goldstone arrays are presented.

Energy loss, range, and bremsstrahlung yield for 10-keV to 100-MeV electrons in various elements and chemical compounds

NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

Pages, Lucien; Bertel, Evelyne; Joffre, Henri; Sklavenitis, Laodamas

2012-12-01

Even though the United States lacks a national climate policy, significant action has occurred at the local and regional levels. Some of the most aggressive climate change policies have occurred at the state and local levels and in interagency cooperation on specific management issues. While there is a long history of partnerships in dealing with a wide variety of policy issues, the uncertainty and the political debate surrounding climate change has generated new challenges to establishing effective policy networks. This paper investigates the formation of climate policy networks in the State of Nevada. It presents a methodology based on social network analysis for assessing the structure and function of local policy networks across a range of substantive climate impacted resources (water, landscape management, conservation, forestry and others). It draws from an emerging literature on federalism and climate policy, public sector innovation, and institutional analysis in socio-ecological systems. Comparisons across different policy issue networks in the state are used to highlight the influence of network structure, connectivity, bridging across vertical and horizontal organizational units, organizational diversity, and flows between organizational nodes.

Spatial and seasonal patterns in urban influence on regional concentrations of speciated aerosols across the United States

NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

Hand, J. L.; Schichtel, B. A.; Malm, W. C.; Pitchford, M.; Frank, N. H.

2014-11-01

Monthly, seasonal, and annual mean estimates of urban influence on regional concentrations of major aerosol species were computed using speciated aerosol data from the rural IMPROVE network (Interagency Monitoring of Protected Visual Environments) and the United States Environmental Protection Agency's urban Chemical Speciation Network for the 2008 through 2011 period. Aggregated for sites across the continental United States, the annual mean and one standard error in urban excess (defined as the ratio of urban to nearby rural concentrations) was highest for elemental carbon (3.3 ± 0.2), followed by ammonium nitrate (2.5 ± 0.2), particulate organic matter (1.78 ± 0.08), and ammonium sulfate (1.23 ± 0.03). The seasonal variability in urban excess was significant for carbonaceous aerosols and ammonium nitrate in the West, in contrast to the low seasonal variability in the urban influence of ammonium sulfate. Generally for all species, higher excess values in the West were associated with localized urban sources while in the East excess was more regional in extent. In addition, higher excess values in the western United States in winter were likely influenced not only by differences in sources but also by combined meteorological and topographic effects. This work has implications for understanding the spatial heterogeneity of major aerosol species near the interface of urban and rural regions and therefore for designing appropriate air quality management strategies. In addition, the spatial patterns in speciated mass concentrations provide constraints for regional and global models.

Aligning the Mountain and the Molehill: How the Combatant Commander Coordinates his Theater Security Cooperation Plan with the State Department

DTIC Science & Technology

2005-02-14

hour per response, including the time for reviewing instructions, searching existing data sources, gathering and maintaining the data needed , and...the national level, the National Security Act of 1947 (NSA 47) mandates the need for interagency cooperation.6 In this regard, the National Security...within DoD, it lacks a central body or mechanism to provide the overarching, truly ’global’ oversight and guidance needed to ensure adequate interagency

Overview and history of the Beach Vitex Task Force: an interagency partnership in action

USGS Publications Warehouse

Westbrooks, Randy G.; Brabson, Elizabeth N.

2011-01-01

Beach vitex (Vitex rotundifolia L. f.), a woody vine from Korea, was introduced into the United States as a dune stabilization plant in the mid-1980s. By the mid- to late-1990s, Beach vitex was observed spreading from landscape plantings along the South Carolina coast, crowding out native dune species. In 2003, in response to concerns about possible impacts of the plant on native dune species, as well as loggerhead sea turtle nesting habitat, the South Carolina Beach Vitex Task Force was organized to address the problem. Since that time, the effort to control Beach vitex has expanded to include North Carolina, and more recently, Virginia.

Scientific Assessment of Hypoxia in US Coastal Waters ...

EPA Pesticide Factsheets

Report from the Interagency Working Group on Harmful Algal Blooms, Hypoxia and Human Health. Joint Subcommittee on Ocean Science and Technology (JOST) This report was prepared by a task force associated with the IWG-4H that included representatives of Federal agencies participating in the science and management of coastal hypoxia. It builds on earlier reports to assess hypoxia in U.S. coastal waters (CENR 2003) by updating the assessments and summarizing the major advances in hypoxia research during the past five years. Specifically, this report draws on An Assessment of Coastal Hypoxia and Eutrophication in U.S. Waters (CENR 2003), which was called for in HABHRCA 1998, and The State of Hypoxia in United States Estuarine and Coastal Waters (Diaz 2009). This report also recommends priorities for future hypoxia-related research across the U.S. government.

Response of Yellowstone grizzly bears to changes in food resources: A synthesis. Final report to the Interagency Grizzly Bear Committee and Yellowstone Ecosystem Subcommittee

USGS Publications Warehouse

,; van Manen, Frank T.; Costello, Cecily M.; Haroldson, Mark A.; Bjornlie, Daniel D.; Ebinger, Michael R.; Gunther, Kerry A.; Mahalovich, Mary Frances; Thompson, Daniel J.; Higgs, Megan D.; Irvine, Kathryn M.; Legg, Kristin; Tyers, Daniel B.; Landenburger, Lisa; Cain, Steven L.; Frey, Kevin L.; Aber, Bryan C.; Schwartz, Charles C.

2013-01-01

The Yellowstone grizzly bear (Ursus arctos) was listed as a threatened species in 1975 (Federal Register 40 FR:31734-31736). Since listing, recovery efforts have focused on increasing population size, improving habitat security, managing bear mortalities, and reducing bear-human conflicts. The Interagency Grizzly Bear Committee (IGBC; partnership of federal and state agencies responsible for grizzly bear recovery in the lower 48 states) and its Yellowstone Ecosystem Subcommitte (YES; federal, state, county, and tribal partners charged with recovery of grizzly bears in the Greater Yelowston Ecosystem [GYE]) tasked the Interagency Grizzly Bear Study Team to provide information and further research relevant to three concerns arising from the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals November 2011 decision: 1) the ability of grizzly bears as omnivores to find alternative foods to whitebark pine seeds; 2) literature to support their conclusions; and 3) the non-intuitive biological reality that impacts can occur to individuals without causing the overall population to decline. Specifically, the IGBC and YES requested a comprehensive synthesis of the current state of knowledge regarding whitebark pinbe decline and individual and population-level responses of grizzly bears to changing food resources in the GYE. This research was particularly relevant to grizzly bear conservation given changes in the population trajectory observed during the last decade.

US objectives generally achieved at broadcasting satellite international conference. Improvements can help in future conferences

NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

1984-08-01

The implementation of broadcasting satellite service for the Western Hemisphere was planned. Broadcasting satellites transmit television programs and other information services from Earth orbit to home or office antennas. At the request of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, State and the Judiciary, GAO reviewed conference results as compared to established conference objectives and examined the interagency coordination of U.S. participation in this international conference. The United States basically achieved its two most important conference objectives: adopting a technically and procedurally flexible plan for broadcasting satellite service and obtaining a sufficient allocation of satellite orbit slots and frequencies to meet domestic needs. The U.S. was unable, however, to obtain agreement on adopting a maximum signal power level for satellites. The Department of State could improve its preparation, internal coordination, and administrative support for future international conferences and recommends actions to the Secretary of State to improve its international telecommunications activities.

Milan Army Ammunition Plant remedial investigation report: Volume 1. Final report 89-91

DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI.GOV)

Okusu, N.; Hall, H.; Orndorff, A.

1991-12-09

A Remedial Investigation at the Milan Army Ammunition Plant, TN, was conducted for the US Army Toxic and Hazardous Materials Agency, under the terms of an Interagency Agreement with the State of Tennessee and the US Environmental Protection Agency. The study focused on the CERCLA site and selected RCRA regulated units identified by previous studies as potential sources of contamination. A broad range of chemicals including metals, explosives, and other organic compounds were found in source areas and in groundwater. The results of a risk assessment indicate that unacceptable levels of human health risks potentially exist. Conceptual models of sitemore » and unit characteristics were formulated to explain major findings, and areas not contributing to the problem were identified. For many source areas, major unknowns exist regarding hydrology, extent of contamination, and current and future impacts to groundwater quality.« less

7 CFR 621.41 - Participation in Federal-State policy and planning activities at the regional level.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

2011-01-01

... RIVER BASIN INVESTIGATIONS AND SURVEYS Interagency Coordination § 621.41 Participation in Federal-State... the leadership of NRCS, other USDA agencies, principally the Forest Service and Economic Research...

7 CFR 621.41 - Participation in Federal-State policy and planning activities at the regional level.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-01-01

... RIVER BASIN INVESTIGATIONS AND SURVEYS Interagency Coordination § 621.41 Participation in Federal-State... the leadership of NRCS, other USDA agencies, principally the Forest Service and Economic Research...

7 CFR 621.41 - Participation in Federal-State policy and planning activities at the regional level.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

2013-01-01

... RIVER BASIN INVESTIGATIONS AND SURVEYS Interagency Coordination § 621.41 Participation in Federal-State... the leadership of NRCS, other USDA agencies, principally the Forest Service and Economic Research...

7 CFR 621.41 - Participation in Federal-State policy and planning activities at the regional level.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

2012-01-01

... RIVER BASIN INVESTIGATIONS AND SURVEYS Interagency Coordination § 621.41 Participation in Federal-State... the leadership of NRCS, other USDA agencies, principally the Forest Service and Economic Research...

7 CFR 621.41 - Participation in Federal-State policy and planning activities at the regional level.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

2014-01-01

... RIVER BASIN INVESTIGATIONS AND SURVEYS Interagency Coordination § 621.41 Participation in Federal-State... the leadership of NRCS, other USDA agencies, principally the Forest Service and Economic Research...

75 FR 3193 - Information Collection; Annual Wildfire Summary Report

Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

2010-01-20

... addressed to Tim Melchert, Fire and Aviation Management, National Interagency Fire Center, Forest Service... Forest Service State and Private Forestry Cooperative Fire Program. The program provides supplemental funding for State and local fire fighting agencies. The Forest Service works cooperatively with State and...

The 3D Elevation Program national indexing scheme

USGS Publications Warehouse

Thatcher, Cindy A.; Heidemann, Hans Karl; Stoker, Jason M.; Eldridge, Diane F.

2017-11-02

The 3D Elevation Program (3DEP) of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) acquires high-resolution elevation data for the Nation. This program has been operating under an opportunity-oriented approach, acquiring light detection and ranging (lidar) projects of varying sizes scattered across the United States. As a result, the national 3DEP elevation layer is subject to data gaps or unnecessary overlap between adjacent collections. To mitigate this problem, 3DEP is adopting a strategic, systematic approach to national data acquisition that will create efficiencies in efforts to achieve nationwide elevation data coverage and help capture additional Federal and non-Federal investments resulting from advance awareness of proposed acquisitions and partnership opportunities. The 3DEP Working Group, an interagency group managed by the USGS, has agreed that all future 3DEP collections within the lower 48 States should be coordinated by using a 1-kilometer by 1-kilometer tiling scheme for the conterminous United States. Fiscal Year 2018 is being considered a transition year, and in Fiscal Year 2019 the national indexing scheme will be fully implemented, so that all 3DEP-supported projects will be acquired and delivered in the national indexing scheme and projected into the Albers Equal Area projection. 

The National Space Weather Program: Two decades of interagency partnership and accomplishments

NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

Bonadonna, Michael; Lanzerotti, Louis; Stailey, Judson

2017-01-01

This paper describes the development of the United States National Space Weather Program (NSWP) from early interests in space environmental phenomena and their impact through the culmination of the program in 2015. Over its 21 year run, the NSWP facilitated substantial improvements in the capabilities of Federal Space Weather services and fostered broad and enduring partnerships with industry and the academic community within the U.S. and internationally. Under the management of the Office of the Federal Coordinator for Meteorological Services and Supporting Research a coalition of 10 federal agencies worked together from 1994 to 2015 to advance the national space weather enterprise. The paper describes key events and accomplishments of the NSWP interagency partnership while recognizing the great achievements made by the individual agencies. In order to provide context, the paper also discusses several important events outside the NSWP purview. Some of these external events influenced the course of the NSWP, while others were encouraged by the NSWP partnership. Following the establishment of the Space Weather Operations, Research, and Mitigation Task Force of the National Science and Technology Council in the White House and the deactivation of the NSWP Council, the agencies now play a supporting role in the national effort as the federal engagement in the National Space Weather Partnership graduates to a higher level.

Personal Dimensions of Increasing State Influence.

ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

Kramer, Howard C.

Aspects of the relationships between state college and university representatives and state coordinating councils, and forms of intragroup behavior are considered. It is suggested that within an interorganizational paradigm, knowledge of and ability in interagency coordination may be crucial to the future of higher education. Higher education is…

Operational Experience with Long Duration Wildfire Mapping: UAS Missions Over the Western United States

NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)

Hall, Philip; Cobleigh, Brent; Buoni, Greg; Howell, Kathleen

2008-01-01

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration, United States Forest Service, and National Interagency Fire Center have developed a partnership to develop and demonstrate technology to improve airborne wildfire imaging and data dissemination. In the summer of 2007, a multi-spectral infrared scanner was integrated into NASA's Ikhana Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) (a General Atomics Predator-B) and launched on four long duration wildfire mapping demonstration missions covering eight western states. Extensive safety analysis, contingency planning, and mission coordination were key to securing an FAA certificate of authorization (COA) to operate in the national airspace. Infrared images were autonomously geo-rectified, transmitted to the ground station by satellite communications, and networked to fire incident commanders within 15 minutes of acquisition. Close coordination with air traffic control ensured a safe operation, and allowed real-time redirection around inclement weather and other minor changes to the flight plan. All objectives of the mission demonstrations were achieved. In late October, wind-driven wildfires erupted in five southern California counties. State and national emergency operations agencies requested Ikhana to help assess and manage the wildfires. Four additional missions were launched over a 5-day period, with near realtime images delivered to multiple emergency operations centers and fire incident commands managing 10 fires.

30 CFR 227.401 - What are a State's responsibilities if it processes production reports or royalty reports?

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2010-07-01

... and Reports, the MMS Minerals Production Reporter Handbook, any interagency memorandum of... processes production reports or royalty reports? 227.401 Section 227.401 Mineral Resources MINERALS MANAGEMENT SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR MINERALS REVENUE MANAGEMENT DELEGATION TO STATES States...

75 FR 45606 - Interagency Ocean Policy Task Force-Final Recommendations of the Interagency Ocean Policy Task Force

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Report of the American Ornithologists' Union Committee on Conservation, 1976-77. The recovery team-recovery plan approach to conservation of endangered species; A status summary and appraisal

USGS Publications Warehouse

King, W.B.; Jackson, J.A.; Kale, H.W.; Mayfield, H.F.; Plunkett, R.L.; Scott, J.M.; Springer, P.F.; Temple, S.A.; Wilbur, S.R.

1977-01-01

The U.S. Endangered Species Act of 1973 (P.L. 93-205) identifies the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS), under authority delegated by the Secretary of the Interior, as the lead agency charged with the conservation of most endangered species in the United States. Some marine species are the responsibility of the Secretary of Commerce, and the responsibility for marine turtles is shared. In 1972 the USFWS sent preliminary instructions to certain field researchers to develop a unified coordinated plan for the recovery of the species they were working with. These were the precursors of recovery teams and recovery plans. The plans, and the teams to draft and help implement them, became one significant means of fulfilling the USFWS' obligations under the Endangered Species Act, particularly Sections 6 and 7, which deal with state and interagency cooperation.

Wildfire and MAMS data from STORMFEST

NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)

Jedlovec, Gary J.; Carlson, G. S.

1993-01-01

Early in 1992, NASA participated in an inter-agency field program called STORMFEST. The STORM-Fronts Experiment Systems Test (STORMFEST) was designed to test various systems critical to the success of STORM 1 in a very focused experiment. The field effort focused on winter storms in order to investigate the structure and evolution of fronts and associated mesoscale phenomena in the central United States. This document describes the data collected from two instruments onboard a NASA ER2 aircraft which was deployed out of Ellington Field in Houston, Texas from February 13 through March 15, 1992, in support of this experiment. The two instruments were the Wildfire (a.k.a. the moderate resolution imaging spectrometer-nadir (MODIS-N) Airborne Simulation (MAS)) and the Multispectral Atmospheric Mapping Sensor (MAMS).

Recent field experiments with commercial satellite imagery direct downlink.

PubMed

Gonzalez, Anthony R; Amber, Samuel H

US Pacific Command's strategy includes assistance to United States government relief agencies and nongovernment organizations during humanitarian aid and disaster relief operations in the Asia-Pacific region. Situational awareness during these operations is enhanced by broad interagency access to unclassified commercial satellite imagery. The Remote Ground Terminal-a mobile satellite downlink ground station-has undergone several technology demonstrations and participated in an overseas deployment exercise focused on a natural disaster scenario. This ground station has received new commercial imagery within 20 minutes, hastening a normally days-long process. The Army Geospatial Center continues to manage technology development and product improvement for the Remote Ground Terminal. Furthermore, this ground station is now on a technology transition path into the Distributed Common Ground System-Army program of record.

The Perspectives of the International Agencies

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Hollander, Astrid

2005-01-01

An Inter-agency Panel of Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) experts, drawn from seven United Nations and other international agencies, was one of the highlights in the programme of UNESCO's International Experts Meeting "Learning for Work, Citizenship and Sustainability" (Bonn, Germany, 25-28 October 2004). The Panel…

Program review presentation to Level 1, Interagency Coordination Committee

NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)

1982-01-01

Progress in the development of crop inventory technology is reported. Specific topics include the results of a thematic mapper analysis, variable selection studies/early season estimator improvements, the agricultural information system simulator, large unit proportion estimation, and development of common features for multi-satellite information extraction.

Calibration of state and transition models with FVS

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Melinda Moeur; Don Vandendriesche

2010-01-01

The Interagency Mapping and Assessment Project (IMAP), a partnership between federal and state agencies, is developing mid-scale vegetation data and state and transition models (STM) for comparing the likely outcomes of alternative management policies on forested landscapes across the Pacific Northwest Region. In an STM, acres within a forested ecosystem transition...

48 CFR 51.204 - Use of interagency fleet management system (IFMS) vehicles and related services.

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... Contractor Use of Interagency Fleet Management System (IFMS) 51.204 Use of interagency fleet management system (IFMS) vehicles and related services. Contractors authorized to use interagency fleet management... 48 Federal Acquisition Regulations System 1 2010-10-01 2010-10-01 false Use of interagency fleet...

Planning for Interagency Cooperation in Rural Development. CARD Report 45.

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Rogers, David L.; Glick, Edward L.

With a major emphasis on cooperative planning in rural development, three elements of development process were identified: (1) integration of units involved, occurring when several organizations contribute to a larger collective effort; (2) decentralized planning and local initiative, occurring when planning initiative is at the local level; (3)…

Comprehensive Civil Information Management: How to Provide It

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2012-04-04

5f. WORK UNIT NUMBER 7. PERFORMING ORGANIZATION NAME(S) AND ADDRESS(ES) AND ADDRESS(ES) 8. PERFORMING ORGANIZATION REPORT NUMBER...Management, Non-Government Organizations , International Organizations , Interagency 16. SECURITY CLASSIFICATION OF: 17. LIMITATION OF ABSTRACT 18...Information Support Operations, Psychological Operations, Flat Technology, Knowledge Management, Non-Government Organizations , International

Association of child care burden and household composition with adherence to highly active antiretroviral therapy in the Women's Interagency HIV Study.

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Merenstein, Daniel; Schneider, Michael F; Cox, Christopher; Schwartz, Rebecca; Weber, Kathleen; Robison, Esther; Gandhi, Monica; Richardson, Jean; Plankey, Michael W

2009-04-01

Our objective was to describe the association that childcare burden, household composition, and health care utilization have with adherence to highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) among women in the United States. The primary outcome was 95% or more adherence to HAART evaluated at 10,916 semiannual visits between October 1998 and March 2006 among 1419 HIV-infected participants enrolled in the Women's Interagency HIV Study. HAART adherence levels of 95% or more were reported at 76% of the semiannual visits. At only 4% of the person-visits did women report either quite a bit or extreme difficulty in caring for child; at 52% of the person-visits women reported at least one child 18 years of age or older living in the household. We found a one-unit increase in the difficulty in caring for children (childcare burden was assessed on a 5-point scale: not difficult [1] to extremely difficult [5]) was associated with a 6% decreased odds of 95% or more HAART adherence (adjusted odds ratio [OR] = 0.94; p = 0.07). Each additional child 18 years of age or less living in the household was associated with an 8% decreased odds of 95% or more adherence (adjusted OR = 0.92, p = 0.03). Both the number and type of adult living in the household, as well as health care utilization were not associated with HAART adherence. Greater child care burden and number of children 18 years old or younger living in household were both inversely associated with HAART adherence. Assessing patients' difficulties in caring for children and household composition are important factors to consider when addressing adherence to HAART.

Section 619 Profile, 19th Edition

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Lazara, A., Ed.; Danaher, J., Ed.; Kraus, R., Ed.; Goode, S., Ed.; Hipps, C., Ed.; Festa, C., Ed.

2012-01-01

This 2012 edition of this publication updates information provided by state coordinators on state policies, programs, and practices under the Preschool Grants Program (Section 619 of Part B) of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA). Information includes: (1) program administration; (2) funding; (3) interagency coordination; (4)…

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... transportation conformity revisions to the Kentucky State Implementation Plan (SIP) submitted by the Commonwealth...). This addition consists of transportation conformity criteria and procedures related to interagency consultation and enforceability of certain transportation-related control measures and mitigation measures. The...

Smoke from Canadian Fires Blankets Eastern U.S.

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2002-01-01

Smoke from multiple large wildfires in Quebec is blanketing the southern portion of the Canadian province and extending southward over the Great Lakes and eastern United States. This image was acquired by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on the Terra satellite on July 7, 2002, and shows dozens of active fire detections (red dots) east of James Bay at upper left. The enormous smoke plume is almost 200 miles wide where it enters the United States over the New York and Vermont state lines. The thick pall is affecting air quality in places well to the south, including New York, Baltimore, and Washington, D.C. The image shows the smoke drifting out over the Atlantic Ocean, and then curling back in over North Carolina (bottom right). On Sunday, July 7, the Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Center reported 15 new fires in Quebec in the preceding 24 hours, bringing the total to more than 40 fires in the region, at least 7 which were burning out of control. Most of the fires are believed to have been caused by lightning, more of which is expected on Monday. According to news reports, several hundred people remain evacuated from their homes. Image by Jesse Allen, NASA Earth Observatory, based upon data provided by the MODIS Land Rapid Response Team at NASA GSFC

Seasonal, Spatial, and Long-term Variability of Fine Mineral Dust in the United States

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Hand, J. L.; White, W. H.; Gebhart, K. A.; Hyslop, N. P.; Gill, T. E.; Schichtel, B. A.

2017-12-01

Characterizing the seasonal, spatial, and long-term variability of fine mineral dust (FD) is important to assess its environmental and climate impacts. FD concentrations (mineral particles with aerodynamic diameters less than 2.5 µm) were estimated using ambient, ground-based PM2.5 elemental chemistry data from over 160 remote and rural Interagency Monitoring of Protected Visual Environments (IMPROVE) sites from 2011 through 2015. FD concentrations were highest and contributed over 50% of PM2.5 mass at southwestern sites in spring and across the central and southeastern United States in summer (20-30% of PM2.5). The highest seasonal variability in FD occurred at sites in the Southeast during summer, likely associated with impacts from North African transport, which was also evidenced in the elemental ratios of calcium, iron, and aluminum. Long-term trend analyses (2000-2015) indicated widespread, regional increases in FD concentrations during spring in the West, especially in March in the Southwest. This increase was associated with an early onset of the spring dust season and correlated with the Pacific Decadal Oscillation and the El Niño Southern Oscillation. The Southeast and central United States also experienced increased FD concentrations during summer and fall, respectively. Contributions of FD to PM2.5 mass have increased in regions across the United States during all seasons, in part due to increased FD concentrations but also as a result of reductions in secondary aerosols (e.g., sulfates, nitrates, and organic carbon). Increased levels of FD have important implications for its environmental and climate impacts; mitigating these impacts will require identifying and characterizing source regions and underlying mechanisms for dust episodes.

Atmospherically transported elements and deposition in the Southeastern United States: Local or transoceanic?

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Holmes, C.W.; Miller, R.

2004-01-01

Saharan dust is persistently transported and deposited in ecosystems of the western Atlantic Ocean. This dust is an aggregate of clay and quartz particles cemented with Fe oxides. Samples collected and analyzed from Mali (central Africa), the Azores, the Caribbean and the Eastern United States document the levels of minor and trace metals in the dust. Metal loadings, particularly the toxic elements - Hg and As, are significantly higher than average crustal rocks. Over the past decade, the focus has been to understand the cycling of Hg in south Florida, but As has received very little attention. Arsenic in the sediment deposited in the past decade in south Florida averages 14 mg/kg and appears to be correlated with Al, a proxy for dust. The largest available aerosol data set containing As is the IMPROVE (Interagency Monitoring of Protected Visual Environments) data set. The average concentrations in aerosols collected during this program range from 17 mg/kg in the Virgin Islands to 79 mg/kg at Chassahowitzka, Florida. At Chassahowitzka, most of the As appears to be associated with organic C. If it is assumed that the concentrations in Mali dust and in the aerosols in the Virgin Islands are indicative of soil dust, then the higher values at Chassahowitzka may be derived from local or regional sources. A simple calculation indicates that African dust supplies about 25% of the As deposited from aerosols in the southeastern United States. Comparison of the average yearly As concentrations measured in the Virgin Islands and Everglades shows a negative relationship with the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO). This relationship demonstrates the influence of climate on the transport and deposition of aerosols to the southeastern United States.

Concurrent Temporal and Spatial Trends in Sulfate and Organic Mass Concentrations Measured in the IMPROVE Monitoring Program

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Malm, William C.; Schichtel, Bret A.; Hand, Jenny L.; Collett, Jeffrey L.

2017-10-01

Recent modeling and field studies have highlighted a relationship between sulfate concentrations and secondarily formed organic aerosols related to isoprene and other volatile biogenic gaseous emissions. The relationship between these biogenic emissions and sulfate is thought to be primarily associated with the effect of sulfate on aerosol acidity, increased aerosol water at high relative humidities, and aerosol volume. The Interagency Monitoring of Protected Visual Environments (IMPROVE) program provides aerosol concentration levels of sulfate (SO4) and organic carbon (OC) at 136 monitoring sites in rural and remote areas of the United States over time periods of between 15 and 28 years. This data set allows for an examination of relationships between these variables over time and space. The relative decreases in SO4 and OC were similar over most of the eastern United States, even though concentrations varied dramatically from one region to another. The analysis implied that for every unit decrease in SO4 there was about a 0.29 decrease in organic aerosol mass (OA = 1.8 × OC). This translated to a 2 μg/m3 decrease in biogenically derived secondary organic aerosol over 15 years in the southeastern United States. The analysis further implied that 35% and 27% in 2001 and 2015, respectively, of average total OA may be biogenically derived secondary organic aerosols and that there was a small but significant decrease in OA not linked to changes in SO4 concentrations. The analysis yields a constraint on ambient SO4-OC relationships that should help to refine and improve regional-scale chemical transport models.

Drainage area data for Alabama streams

USGS Publications Warehouse

Stallings, J.S.; Peirce, L.B.

1957-01-01

The drainage area of a river basin is an important parameter in many engineering equations used for hydrologic design. It is not a parameter, however, that always requires precise measurement. Factors in the hydrologic cycle such as rainfall, runoff, transpiration, and infiltration cannot be measured nearly as closely as drainage area. Largely for this reason, drainage areas are often measured to varying degrees of precision depending upon the immediate need, with little thought to some other use or some other user of the figure obtained. It can readily be appreciated that this practice, continued for long by many different agencies, will result in a heterogeneous collection of drainage area figures, often discordant and of an accuracy unknown to any but those who computed them. Figures of drainage area published by various Federal agencies are frequently discrepant or contradictory, giving rise to confusion in the use of drainage area data. Seeking to better this situation, the Federal Inter-Agency River Basin Committee (FIARBC) in November 1951 published its Bulletin No. 4, Inter-Agency Coordination of Drainage Area Data. That Bulletin recommended procedures to be followed by the interested Federal agencies “for coordinating drainage area data in the interest of promoting uniformity, reducing confusion and contradiction of published figures, and improving the ready availability of drainage area data pertaining to drainage basins of the United States and its possessions.”

NASA/Air Force/Environmental Protection Agency Interagency Depainting Study

NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)

Clark-Ingram, Marceia

1998-01-01

Many popular and widely used paint stripping products have traditionally contained methylene chloride as their main active ingredient. However, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has critically curved the allowable use of methylene chloride under the National Emission Standard for Hazardous Air Pollutants regulating Aerospace Manufacturing and Rework Facilities . Compliance with this rule was mandatory by September 1998 for affected facilities. An effort is underway to identify and evaluate alternative depainting technologies emphasizing those believed both effective and environmentally benign. On behalf of the EPA and in cooperation with the United States Air Force, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration is conducting a technical assessment of several alternative technologies ( i.e. : chemical stripping, two CO2 blasting processes, CO2 xenon lamp coating removal, CO2 Laser stripping, plastic media blasting, sodium bicarbonate wet stripping, high pressure water stripping, and wheat starch blasting). These depainting processes represent five removal method categories, namely abrasive, impact, cryogenic, thermal, and/or molecular bonding dissociation. This paper discusses the test plan and parameters for this interagency study. Several thicknesses of clad and non-clad aluminum substrates were used to prepare test specimens. Each depainting process has been assigned a specimen lot, all of which have completed three to five stripping cycles. Numerous metallurgical evaluations are underway to assess the impact of these alternative depainting processes upon the structural integrity of the substrate.

A 10-year spatial and temporal trend of sulfate across the United States

NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

Malm, William C.; Schichtel, Bret A.; Ames, Rodger B.; Gebhart, Kristi A.

2002-11-01

Legislative and regulatory mandates have resulted in reduced sulfur dioxide (SO2) emissions in both the eastern and western United States with anticipation that concurrent levels of ambient SO2, SO42-, and rainwater acidity would decrease. This paper examines spatial and temporal trends in ambient SO42- concentration from 1988 to 1999, SO2 emissions from 1990 to 1999, and the relationship between these two variables. The SO42- concentration data came from combining data from the Interagency Monitoring of Protected Visual Environments (IMPROVE) and the Clean Air Status and Trends Network (CASTNet). Over 70 sites spread across the continental United States are considered in this analysis. From a spatial perspective, the 90th percentile summer sulfate concentrations are highest along the Ohio River Valley and in central Tennessee where the emission density of SO2 is greatest. These concentrations are a factor of 2 greater than the Northeast, northern Michigan, and coastal areas of the Southeast and about a factor of 15 greater than the central western United States. In the East, the largest SO42- decreases in the 80th percentile concentrations occurred north of the Ohio River Valley, while most monitoring sites south of Kentucky and Virginia showed increasing and decreasing trends that were not statistically significant. Big Bend National Park, Texas, Cranberry, North Carolina, and Lassen Volcanic National Park, California, are the only areas that show a statistically significant increase in SO42- mass concentrations. The 1990-1999 annual 80th percentile SO42- time series were compared to the annual SO2 emissions over four broad United States regions. Each region had a unique time series pattern with the SO42- concentrations and SO2 emissions closely tracking each other over the 10-year period. Both the SO42- and SO2 emissions decreased in the Northeast (28%) and the West (15%), while there was little change in the Southeast and a 15% increase over Texas, New Mexico, and Colorado.

The Virginia Home Visiting Consortium

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Bodkin, Catherine

2010-01-01

The Virginia Home Visiting Consortium (HVC) is a collaboration of public and private organizations which work to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of home visiting services throughout the state. The HVC identified service needs and gaps and has focused on increasing the interagency state and local partnerships so that resources are…

Spatiotemporal distribution of airborne particulate metals and metalloids in a populated arid region

NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

Prabhakar, Gouri; Sorooshian, Armin; Toffol, Emily; Arellano, Avelino F.; Betterton, Eric A.

2014-08-01

A statistical analysis of data from the Interagency Monitoring of Protected Visual Environments (IMPROVE) network of aerosol samplers has been used to study the spatial and temporal concentration trends in airborne particulate metals and metalloids for southern Arizona. The study region is a rapidly growing area in southwestern North America characterized by high fine soil concentrations (among the highest in the United States), anthropogenic emissions from an area within the fastest growing region in the United States, and a high density of active and abandoned mining sites. Crustal tracers in the region are most abundant in the summer (April-June) followed by fall (October-November) as a result of dry meteorological conditions which favor dust emissions from natural and anthropogenic activity. A distinct day-of-week cycle is evident for crustal tracer mass concentrations, with the greatest amplitude evident in urban areas. There have been significant reductions since 1988 in the concentrations of toxic species that are typically associated with smelting and mining. Periods with high fine soil concentrations coincide with higher concentrations of metals and metalloids in the atmosphere, with the enhancement being higher at urban sites.

NOAA Atmospheric, Marine and Arctic Monitoring Using UASs (including Rapid Response)

NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

Coffey, J. J.; Jacobs, T.

2015-12-01

Unmanned systems have the potential to efficiently, effectively, economically, and safely bridge critical observation requirements in an environmentally friendly manner. As the United States' Atmospheric, Marine and Arctic areas of interest expand and include hard-to-reach regions of the Earth (such as the Arctic and remote oceanic areas) optimizing unmanned capabilities will be needed to advance the United States' science, technology and security efforts. Through increased multi-mission and multi-agency operations using improved inter-operable and autonomous unmanned systems, the research and operations communities will better collect environmental intelligence and better protect our Country against hazardous weather, environmental, marine and polar hazards. This presentation will examine NOAA's Atmospheric, Marine and Arctic Monitoring Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) strategies which includes developing a coordinated effort to maximize the efficiency and capabilities of unmanned systems across the federal government and research partners. Numerous intra- and inter-agency operational demonstrations and assessments have been made to verify and validated these strategies. This includes the introduction of the Targeted Autonomous Insitu Sensing and Rapid Response (TAISRR) with UAS concept of operations. The presentation will also discuss the requisite UAS capabilities and our experience in using them.

Using NASA Satellite Observations to Map Wildfire Risk in the United States for Allocation of Fire Management Resources

NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

Farahmand, A.; Reager, J. T., II; Behrangi, A.; Stavros, E. N.; Randerson, J. T.

2017-12-01

Fires are a key disturbance globally acting as a catalyst for terrestrial ecosystem change and contributing significantly to both carbon emissions and changes in surface albedo. The socioeconomic impacts of wildfire activities are also significant with wildfire activity results in billions of dollars of losses every year. Fire size, area burned and frequency are increasing, thus the likelihood of fire danger, defined by United States National Interagency Fire Center (NFIC) as the demand of fire management resources as a function of how flammable fuels (a function of ignitability, consumability and availability) are from normal, is an important step toward reducing costs associated with wildfires. Numerous studies have aimed to predict the likelihood of fire danger, but few studies use remote sensing data to map fire danger at scales commensurate with regional management decisions (e.g., deployment of resources nationally throughout fire season with seasonal and monthly prediction). Here, we use NASA Gravity Recovery And Climate Experiment (GRACE) assimilated surface soil moisture, NASA Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) vapor pressure deficit, NASA Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) enhanced vegetation index products and landcover products, along with US Forest Service historical fire activity data to generate probabilistic monthly fire potential maps in the United States. These maps can be useful in not only government operational allocation of fire management resources, but also improving understanding of the Earth System and how it is changing in order to refine predictions of fire extremes.

Corrosion Evaluation of Aircraft Depainting Chemicals

NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)

McGill, Preston; Torres, Pablo

1999-01-01

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is participating in an interagency task agreement with the Environmental Protection Agency and the United States Air Force to evaluate alternative technologies for aerospace depainting operations that do not adversely affect the environment. An element of this study is directed towards the evaluation of environmentally advantaged chemical paint strippers, specifically, paint strippers that do not contain methylene chloride. Eight environmentally advantaged, or alternative, chemical paint strippers and two methylene chloride, or baseline, paint strippers were obtained from various manufacturers and incorporated into the depainting study. In addition to being evaluated on their ability to remove paint, the potential of these chemicals to promote corrosion and hydrogen embrittlement was evaluated. The corrosion and hydrogen embrittlement potential of the chemical paint strippers are presented in this report.

KSC-02pd1260

NASA Image and Video Library

2002-08-30

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Cape Canaveral Spaceport leaders gather after the master plan signing ceremony at Port Canaveral Terminal 10. From left are Canaveral National Seashore Superintendent Robert Newkirk, Canaveral Port Authority Executive Director Malcolm "Mac" McLouth, KSC Director Roy Bridges Jr., U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson, 45th Space Wing Commander Gregory Pavlovich, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Services Refuge Manager Ron Hight, Naval Ordnance Test Unit Commanding Officer William Borger, and Florida Space Authority Executive Director Ed Gormel. The plan represents interagency cooperation between the leadership group's agencies and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the National Park Service and U.S. Navy. Joining them in developing a vision of the Spaceport's future have been aerospace educators, researchers, and businesses, along with representatives from local, state and national government.

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NASA Image and Video Library

2002-08-28

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Cape Canaveral Spaceport leaders gather after the master plan signing ceremony at Port Canaveral Terminal 10. From left are Canaveral National Seashore Superintendent Robert Newkirk, Canaveral Port Authority Executive Director Malcolm "Mac" McLouth, KSC Director Roy Bridges Jr., U.S. Rep. Dave Weldon, 45th Space Wing Commander Gregory Pavlovich, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Services Refuge Manager Ron Hight, Naval Ordnance Test Unit Commanding Officer William Borger, and Florida Space Authority Executive Director Ed Gormel. The plan represents interagency cooperation between the leadership group's agencies and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the National Park Service and U.S. Navy. Joining them in developing a vision of the Spaceport's future have been aerospace educators, researchers, and businesses, along with representatives from local, state and national government.

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NASA Image and Video Library

2002-08-30

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson talks to the media after the master plan signing ceremony at Port Canaveral Terminal 10. Also attending were Canaveral National Seashore Superintendent Robert Newkirk, Canaveral Port Authority Executive Director Malcolm "Mac" McLouth, KSC Director Roy Bridges Jr., U.S. Rep. Dave Weldon, 45th Space Wing Commander Gregory Pavlovich, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Services Refuge Manager Ron Hight, Naval Ordnance Test Unit Commanding Officer William Borger, and Florida Space Authority Executive Director Ed Gormel. The plan represents interagency cooperation between the leadership group's agencies and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the National Park Service and U.S. Navy. Joining them in developing a vision of the Spaceport's future have been aerospace educators, researchers, and businesses, along with representatives from local, state and national government.

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NASA Image and Video Library

2002-08-30

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Center Director Roy Bridges addresses guests at the master plan signing ceremony at Port Canaveral Terminal 10. Also attending were Canaveral National Seashore Superintendent Robert Newkirk, Canaveral Port Authority Executive Director Malcolm "Mac" McLouth, KSC Director Roy Bridges Jr., U.S. Rep. Dave Weldon, U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson, 45th Space Wing Commander Gregory Pavlovich, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Services Refuge Manager Ron Hight, Naval Ordnance Test Unit Commanding Officer William Borger, and Florida Space Authority Executive Director Ed Gormel. The plan represents interagency cooperation between the leadership group's agencies and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the National Park Service and U.S. Navy. Joining them in developing a vision of the Spaceport's future have been aerospace educators, researchers, and businesses, along with representatives from local, state and national government.

77 FR 183 - Federal Acquisition Regulation; Preventing Abuse of Interagency Contracts

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... ensure a level playing field in the acquisition planning process, the FAR should be amended to require a... the ability of the Government to leverage its purchasing power, e.g., will it have a negative effect... Act also provides authority for placement of orders between major organizational units within an...

Working Together. Policy and Practice in Scottish Early Childhood Centres

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Paton, Grace

2007-01-01

A key policy response to continuing concerns about levels of poverty and social exclusion in the United Kingdom has been the promotion of integrated children's services, involving professionals from education, social work, health and other fields working together on an inter-agency basis. This small-scale qualitative research project, using an…

Vegetation classification system for California: user's guide

Treesearch

Serena C. Hunter; Timothy E. Paysen

1986-01-01

The Vegetation Classification System for California is an unbiased system of defining and naming units of vegetation. The concept was devised by an interagency, interdisciplinary team (Paysen and others 1980, 1982). The system derives its uniqueness from its impartiality to any particular agency or resource discipline, thus providing a long-needed link between diverse...

78 FR 43218 - Notice of Kidney Interagency Coordinating Committee Meeting

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... DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES National Institutes of Health Notice of Kidney Interagency Coordinating Committee Meeting SUMMARY: The Kidney Interagency Coordinating Committee (KICC) will hold a meeting on September 27, 2013, about interagency collaboration to improve outcomes in Chronic Kidney...

78 FR 23970 - Interagency Task Force on Veterans Small Business Development

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75 FR 62611 - Interagency Task Force on Veterans Small Business Development

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77 FR 41472 - Interagency Task Force on Veterans Small Business Development

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76 FR 8393 - Interagency Task Force on Veterans Small Business Development

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48 CFR 42.002 - Interagency agreements.

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ACHP | News | Native Hawaiian Federal Interagency Working Group Created

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Search skip specific nav links Home arrow News arrow Native Hawaiian Federal Interagency Working Group Created Native Hawaiian Federal Interagency Working Group Created Improving consultations on unique issues involving Native Hawaiian organizations is the purpose of a new interagency working group established by the

15 CFR 750.4 - Procedures for processing license applications.

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2013-01-01

... interagency groups established to provide expertise and coordinate interagency consultation. These interagency groups consist of: (i) The Missile Technology Export Control Group (MTEC). The MTEC, chaired by the... paper copy. (d) Review by other agencies and/or interagency groups. (1) Within 10 days of receipt of a...

15 CFR 750.4 - Procedures for processing license applications.

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15 CFR 750.4 - Procedures for processing license applications.

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2012-01-01

... interagency groups established to provide expertise and coordinate interagency consultation. These interagency groups consist of: (i) The Missile Technology Export Control Group (MTEC). The MTEC, chaired by the... paper copy. (d) Review by other agencies and/or interagency groups. (1) Within 10 days of receipt of a...

15 CFR 750.4 - Procedures for processing license applications.

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2014-01-01

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15 CFR 750.4 - Procedures for processing license applications.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-01-01

... interagency groups established to provide expertise and coordinate interagency consultation. These interagency groups consist of: (i) The Missile Technology Export Control Group (MTEC). The MTEC, chaired by the... paper copy. (d) Review by other agencies and/or interagency groups. (1) Within 10 days of receipt of a...

Financial Futures of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant

DTIC Science & Technology

2017-03-27

iii Preface The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) has been described as the wealthiest terrorist group in history. From seizing control of...interagency group within the U.S. government and conducted within the Intelligence Policy Center of the RAND National Defense Research Institute, a...17 CHAPTER FOUR

Survey on Early Childhood Advisory Councils. NGA Center for Best Practices Backgrounder

ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

National Governors Association, 2007

2007-01-01

During fall 2007, the NGA Center surveyed states regarding the presence and nature of state early childhood coordinating councils, which may exist as Early Learning Councils, Task Forces, Children's Cabinets, Interagency Coordinating Councils, etc. For brevity, these coordinating entities are referred to below as Early Childhood Advisory Councils…

Sources and Implications of Bias and Uncertainty in a Century of US Wildfire Activity Data

NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

Short, K.

2013-12-01

The statistical analysis of wildfire activity is a critical component of national wildfire planning, operations, and research in the United States (US). Wildfire activity data have been collected in the US for over a century. Yet, to this day, no single unified system of wildfire record-keeping exists. Data for analysis are generally harvested from archival summary reports from federal or interagency fire organizations; incident-level wildfire reporting systems of the federal, state, and local fire services; and, increasingly, remote-sensing programs. It is typical for research into wildfire activity patterns for all or part of the last century to require data from several of these sources and perhaps others. That work is complicated by the disunity of the various datasets and potentially compromised by inherent reporting biases, discussed here. The availability of wildfire records with the information content and geospatial precision generally sought for increasingly popular climatological analyses and the modeling of contemporary wildfire risk is limited to recent decades. We explain how the disunity and idiosyncrasies of US wildfire reporting have largely precluded true interagency, or all-lands, analyses of even recent wildfire activity and hamstrung some early risk modeling efforts. We then describe our efforts to acquire, standardize, error-check, compile, scrub, and evaluate the completeness of US federal, state, and local wildfire records from 1992-2011 for the national interagency Fire Program Analysis (FPA) application. The resulting FPA Fire-Occurrence Database (FPA FOD) includes nearly 1.6 million records from the 20-year period, with values for at least the following core data elements: location at least as precise as a Public Land Survey System section (2.6-km2 grid), discovery date, and final fire size. The FPA FOD is publicly available from the Research Data Archive of the US Department of Agriculture, Forest Service (http://dx.doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009). While necessarily incomplete in some aspects, the database is intended to facilitate fairly high-resolution geospatial analysis of wildfire activity over the past two decades, based on available information from the authoritative systems of record. Formal non-federal wildfire reporting has been on the rise over the past several decades, and users of national datasets like the FPA FOD must beware of state and local reporting biases to avoid drawing spurious conclusions when analysing the data. Apparent trends in the numbers and area burned by wildfires, for example, may be the result of multiple factors, including changes in climate, fuels, demographics (e.g. population density), fire-management policies, and - as we underscore here - levels of reporting.

National Space Weather Program Releases Strategy for the New Decade

NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

Williamson, Samuel P.; Babcock, Michael R.; Bonadonna, Michael F.

2010-12-01

The National Space Weather Program (NSWP; http://www.nswp.gov) is a U.S. federal government interagency program established by the Office of the Federal Coordinator for Meteorology (OFCM) in 1995 to coordinate, collaborate, and leverage capabilities across stakeholder agencies, including space weather researchers, service providers, users, policy makers, and funding agencies, to improve the performance of the space weather enterprise for the United States and its international partners. Two important documents released in recent months have established a framework and the vision, goals, and strategy to move the enterprise forward in the next decade. The U.S. federal agency members of the NSWP include the departments of Commerce, Defense, Energy, Interior, State, and Transportation, plus NASA, the National Science Foundation, and observers from the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) and the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). The OFCM is also working with the Department of Homeland Security's Federal Emergency Management Agency to formally join the program.

Integrated planning for United Action in Phase Zero

DTIC Science & Technology

2007-05-24

Allocations by Country Category and Objective .............. 24 Figure 9 - USAID Funtional Bureau DCHA Organization...interagency activities are performed to dissuade or deter potential adversaries and to assure or solidify relationships with friends and allies. They...Shaping Operations, it must be recognized that a cluster of capabilities are described as central for both and found in each. The relationship

41 CFR 101-25.202 - Factors to be used to determine assignment of purchase responsibility.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-07-01

... experience of agency purchasing and contracting officials and their operating units with due regard to... determine assignment of purchase responsibility. 101-25.202 Section 101-25.202 Public Contracts and Property... PROCUREMENT 25-GENERAL 25.2-Interagency Purchase Assignments § 101-25.202 Factors to be used to determine...

Regional land cover characterization using Landsat thematic mapper data and ancillary data sources

USGS Publications Warehouse

Vogelmann, James E.; Sohl, Terry L.; Campbell, P.V.; Shaw, D.M.; ,

1998-01-01

As part of the activities of the Multi-Resolution Land Characteristics (MRLC) Interagency Consortium, an intermediate-scale land cover data set is being generated for the conterminous United States. This effort is being conducted on a region-by-region basis using U.S. Standard Federal Regions. To date, land cover data sets have been generated for Federal Regions 3 (Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Virginia, Maryland, and Delaware) and 2 (New York and New Jersey). Classification work is currently under way in Federal Region 4 (the southeastern United States), and land cover mapping activities have been started in Federal Regions 5 (the Great Lakes region) and 1 (New England). It is anticipated that a land cover data set for the conterminous United States will be completed by the end of 1999. A standard land cover classification legend is used, which is analogous to and compatible with other classification schemes. The primary MRLC regional classification scheme contains 23 land cover classes.The primary source of data for the project is the Landsat thematic mapper (TM) sensor. For each region, TM scenes representing both leaf-on and leaf-off conditions are acquired, preprocessed, and georeferenced to MRLC specifications. Mosaicked data are clustered using unsupervised classification, and individual clusters are labeled using aerial photographs. Individual clusters that represent more than one land cover unit are split using spatial modeling with multiple ancillary spatial data layers (most notably, digital elevation model, population, land use and land cover, and wetlands information). This approach yields regional land cover information suitable for a wide array of applications, including landscape metric analyses, land management, land cover change studies, and nutrient and pesticide runoff modeling.

77 FR 75349 - Seventy-First Report of the TSCA Interagency Testing Committee to the Administrator of the...

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2012-12-19

... Report of the TSCA Interagency Testing Committee to the Administrator of the Environmental Protection...-2012-0820; FRL-9370-9] Seventy-First Report of the TSCA Interagency Testing Committee to the...) Interagency Testing Committee (ITC) transmitted its 71st ITC Report to the EPA Administrator on November 14...

36 CFR 73.11 - Federal Interagency Panel for World Heritage.

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2010-07-01

... 36 Parks, Forests, and Public Property 1 2010-07-01 2010-07-01 false Federal Interagency Panel for World Heritage. 73.11 Section 73.11 Parks, Forests, and Public Property NATIONAL PARK SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR WORLD HERITAGE CONVENTION § 73.11 Federal Interagency Panel for World Heritage. (a) Responsibilities. The Federal Interagency...

Surveillance plan for the early detection of H5N1 highly pathogenic avian influenza virus in migratory birds in the United States: surveillance year 2009

USGS Publications Warehouse

Brand, Christopher J.

2009-01-01

Executive Summary: This Surveillance Plan (Plan) describes plans for conducting surveillance of wild birds in the United States and its Territories and Freely-Associated States to provide for early detection of the introduction of the H5N1 Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) subtype of the influenza A virus by migratory birds during the 2009 surveillance year, spanning the period of April 1, 2009 - March 31, 2010. The Plan represents a continuation of surveillance efforts begun in 2006 under the Interagency Strategic Plan for the Early Detection of H5N1 Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza in Wild Migratory Birds (U.S. Department of Agriculture and U.S. Department of the Interior, 2006). The Plan sets forth sampling plans by: region, target species or species groups to be sampled, locations of sampling, sample sizes, and sampling approaches and methods. This Plan will be reviewed annually and modified as appropriate for subsequent surveillance years based on evaluation of information from previous years of surveillance, changing patterns and threats of H5N1 HPAI, and changes in funding availability for avian influenza surveillance. Specific sampling strategies will be developed accordingly within each of six regions, defined here as Alaska, Hawaiian/Pacific Islands, Lower Pacific Flyway (Washington, Oregon, California, Idaho, Nevada, Arizona), Central Flyway, Mississippi Flyway, and Atlantic Flyway.

Circumventing the Glass Ceiling: Women Executives in American State Governments.

ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

Bullard, Angela M.; Wright, Deil S.

1993-01-01

Data from 1984 (n=489) and 1988 (n=658) surveys show that female executives in state government have progressed in top positions in certain types of agencies, but much progress has occurred by avoiding, not breaking, the glass ceiling. Most notable male-female differences are in party affiliation, age, interagency mobility, career progress, and…

32 CFR 148.1 - Interagency reciprocal acceptance .

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2014-07-01

..., MILITARY AND CIVILIAN NATIONAL POLICY AND IMPLEMENTATION OF RECIPROCITY OF FACILITIES National Policy on Reciprocity of Use and Inspections of Facilities § 148.1 Interagency reciprocal acceptance . Interagency...

32 CFR 148.1 - Interagency reciprocal acceptance .

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2012-07-01

..., MILITARY AND CIVILIAN NATIONAL POLICY AND IMPLEMENTATION OF RECIPROCITY OF FACILITIES National Policy on Reciprocity of Use and Inspections of Facilities § 148.1 Interagency reciprocal acceptance . Interagency...

32 CFR 148.1 - Interagency reciprocal acceptance .

Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

2013-07-01

..., MILITARY AND CIVILIAN NATIONAL POLICY AND IMPLEMENTATION OF RECIPROCITY OF FACILITIES National Policy on Reciprocity of Use and Inspections of Facilities § 148.1 Interagency reciprocal acceptance . Interagency...

Preventing 3 Million Premature Deaths and Helping 5 Million Smokers Quit: A National Action Plan for Tobacco Cessation

PubMed Central

Fiore, Michael C.; Croyle, Robert T.; Curry, Susan J.; Cutler, Charles M.; Davis, Ronald M.; Gordon, Catherine; Healton, Cheryl; Koh, Howard K.; Orleans, C. Tracy; Richling, Dennis; Satcher, David; Seffrin, John; Williams, Christine; Williams, Larry N.; Keller, Paula A.; Baker, Timothy B.

2004-01-01

In August 2002, the Subcommittee on Cessation of the Interagency Committee on Smoking and Health (ICSH) was charged with developing recommendations to substantially increase rates of tobacco cessation in the United States. The subcommittee’s report, A National Action Plan for Tobacco Cessation, outlines 10 recommendations for reducing premature morbidity and mortality by helping millions of Americans stop using tobacco. The plan includes both evidence-based, population-wide strategies designed to promote cessation (e.g., a national quitline network) and a Smokers’ Health Fund to finance the programs (through a $2 per pack excise tax increase). The subcommittee report was presented to the ICSH (February 11, 2003), which unanimously endorsed sending it to Secretary Thompson for his consideration. In this article, we summarize the national action plan. PMID:14759928

Vatican snubs UNICEF, citing concerns over family planning.

PubMed

1996-11-22

On November 4, the permanent mission of the Holy See to the UN stated that it would discontinue its usual annual contribution ($2000) to the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) because the agency: 1) advocated altering national legislation regarding abortion; 2) distributed contraceptives; and 3) participated in a 1995 UN publication ("Inter-agency Field Manual on Reproductive Health in Refugee Situations") that recommends use of emergency postcoital contraception in situations involving sexual violence. In the same statement, the Holy See described a shift in UNICEF activities based on the organization's failure to respond to requests that specific donations be used for "morally unobjectionable child-related projects"; pastors and church-related institutions were asked to review their contributions to UNICEF. Catholics for a Free Choice promptly announced a donation, equal to that discontinued by the Vatican, to UNICEF.

Preventing 3 million premature deaths and helping 5 million smokers quit: a national action plan for tobacco cessation.

PubMed

Fiore, Michael C; Croyle, Robert T; Curry, Susan J; Cutler, Charles M; Davis, Ronald M; Gordon, Catherine; Healton, Cheryl; Koh, Howard K; Orleans, C Tracy; Richling, Dennis; Satcher, David; Seffrin, John; Williams, Christine; Williams, Larry N; Keller, Paula A; Baker, Timothy B

2004-02-01

In August 2002, the Subcommittee on Cessation of the Interagency Committee on Smoking and Health (ICSH) was charged with developing recommendations to substantially increase rates of tobacco cessation in the United States. The subcommittee's report, A National Action Plan for Tobacco Cessation, outlines 10 recommendations for reducing premature morbidity and mortality by helping millions of Americans stop using tobacco. The plan includes both evidence-based, population-wide strategies designed to promote cessation (e.g., a national quitline network) and a Smokers' Health Fund to finance the programs (through a 2 US dollar per pack excise tax increase). The subcommittee report was presented to the ICSH (February 11, 2003), which unanimously endorsed sending it to Secretary Thompson for his consideration. In this article, we summarize the national action plan.

Interagency Coordination Structures in Stabilization and Reconstruction Operations

DTIC Science & Technology

2010-06-11

poor interagency coordination and lack of unity as significant problems that compromise USG efforts in Afghanistan. This lack of interagency...objectives into consolidated tactical level goals and initiatives. Lack of interagency coordination structures at this level causes a variety of...Iraqi Reconstruction noticed a similar series of issues in an audit of civil police training in Afghanistan and Iraq. The lack of coordination

28 CFR 54.230 - Transition plans.

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2010-07-01

... Judicial Administration DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE (CONTINUED) NONDISCRIMINATION ON THE BASIS OF SEX IN... Interagency Committee on Education Code of the educational institution submitting such plan, the... bind the institution to all actions set forth in the plan. (2) State whether the educational...

7 CFR 15a.18 - Transition plans.

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2010-01-01

... Office of the Secretary of Agriculture EDUCATION PROGRAMS OR ACTIVITIES RECEIVING OR BENEFITTING FROM... of Education, a transition plan shall: (1) State the name, address, and Federal Interagency Committee on Education (FICE) Code of the educational institution submitting such plan, the administratively...

22 CFR 229.230 - Transition plans.

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2010-04-01

... Foreign Relations AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT NONDISCRIMINATION ON THE BASIS OF SEX IN EDUCATION... Secretary of Education, a transition plan shall: (1) State the name, address, and Federal Interagency Committee on Education Code of the educational institution submitting such plan, the administratively...

76 FR 41987 - Interagency Working Group on Coordination of Domestic Energy Development and Permitting in Alaska

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2011-07-15

... Federal engagement with States, localities, and tribal governments, as it relates to energy development..., employees, or agents, or any other person. (Presidential Sig.) THE WHITE HOUSE, July 12, 2011. [FR Doc. 2011...

Working with Rural Employers: An Interagency Partnership.

ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

Bowman, Sally R.; Manoogian, Margaret; Driscoll, Debra Minar

2002-01-01

Oregon State University Extension and county partners, organized an employer development program in a rural community. Focus groups and evaluations identified hiring and retention challenges and outlined needed support and services. Employer training workshops and recruitment and orientation services were provided. (SK)

OVERVIEW OF MINE WASTE TECHNOLOGY PROGRAM

EPA Science Inventory

The Mine Waste Technology Program (MWTP) is an interagency agreement with the DOE and has partnerships with Universities, Forest Service, BLM, Industry and states. The mission of the MWTP is to provide engineering solutions to national environmental issues resulting from the past...

Improving the National Strategy Process

DTIC Science & Technology

2013-03-01

nation. Sunil Desai stated, “For any nation, coordinating the diverse elements of national power--diplomatic, economic, intelligence, military, and...Strategy”, Studies In Conflict and Terrorism, 34, no. 2, (2011), 139. 12 Sunil B. Desai, “Solving the Interagency Puzzle,” Policy Review 129

State of Montana ITS/CVO business plan : intelligent transportation system commercial vehicle operations

DOT National Transportation Integrated Search

1998-01-01

This plans purpose is to encourage coordinated, efficient and safe commercial vehicle operations throughout Montana, and to promote inter-agency and regional cooperation as ITS/CVO projects are developed and deployed. The Plan discusses Montana...

Healthy Aging: MedlinePlus Health Topic

MedlinePlus

... in Spanish Global Aging (National Institute on Aging, World Health Organization) - PDF Older Americans 2016: Key Indicators of Well-Being (Federal Interagency Forum on Aging-Related Statistics) Resveratrol Does Not Affect Health, Longevity in Population Study (National Institute on Aging) State of Aging ...

Integration of the North American Bird Conservation Initiative (NABCI) into southeast National Park Service planning and operations

Treesearch

J. Keith Watson

2005-01-01

To encourage the involvement of southeastern National Park units in bird conservation efforts, the Southeast Region (Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Kentucky, Puerto Rico, and U.S. Virgin Islands) of the National Park Service (NPS) entered into an Interagency Agreement with the US Fish and Wildlife Service....

Establishment of the National Maritime Intelligence Center: Understanding the Foundations of Trust to Support a Collaborative Environment in Homeland Security

DTIC Science & Technology

2010-03-01

this project would not have been possible without the love and support of my wife, Lacey, and my great kids , Madeline, Kenny, and Jackson. Thank you...and the interagency: Knowledge and Speed vs. Ignorance and Sloth? Parameters, XXX (3), 66–76. United Kingdom House of Commons. The Butler Report

Surveying the Structures for Interagency Work in Education, Training & Guidance for Offenders and Ex-Offenders in the Yorkshire & Humberside Region.

ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

Sweet, Pauline

A study examined the current policies, practices, and perceived unmet needs of selected organizations involved in employment, training, and education (ETE) for offenders and exoffenders in the Yorkshire and Humberside region of the United Kingdom. Representatives of 63 of the more than 100 probation services, further education (FE) colleges,…

Global and Regional Sea Level Rise Scenarios for the United States

NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)

Sweet, William V.; Kopp, Robert E.; Weaver, Christopher P.; Obeysekera, Jayantha; Horton, Radley M.; Thieler, E. Robert; Zervas, Chris

2017-01-01

The Sea Level Rise and Coastal Flood Hazard Scenarios and Tools Interagency Task Force, jointly convened by the U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) and the National Ocean Council (NOC), began its work in August 2015. The Task Force has focused its efforts on three primary tasks: 1) updating scenarios of global mean sea level (GMSL) rise, 2) integrating the global scenarios with regional factors contributing to sea level change for the entire U.S. coastline, and 3) incorporating these regionally appropriate scenarios within coastal risk management tools and capabilities deployed by individual agencies in support of the needs of specific stakeholder groups and user communities. This technical report focuses on the first two of these tasks and reports on the production of gridded relative sea level (RSL, which includes both ocean-level change and vertical land motion) projections for the United States associated with an updated set of GMSL scenarios. In addition to supporting the longer-term Task Force effort, this new product will be an important input into the USGCRP Sustained Assessment process and upcoming Fourth National Climate Assessment (NCA4) due in 2018. This report also serves as a key technical input into the in-progress USGCRP Climate Science Special Report (CSSR).

Lessons from collaborative governance and sociobiology theories for reinforcing sustained cooperation: a government food security case study.

PubMed

Montoya, L A; Montoya, I; Sánchez González, O D

2015-07-01

This research aimed to understand how cooperation and collaboration work in interagency arrangements using a case study of the public management of food security and nutrition in Bogotá, Colombia. This study explored the available scientific literature on Collaborative Governance within the Public Management body of knowledge and the literature on Cooperation from the Sociobiology field. Then, proposals were developed for testing on the ground through an action-research effort that was documented as a case study. Finally, observations were used to test the proposals and some analytical generalizations were developed. To document the case study, several personal interviews, file reviews and normative reviews were conducted to generate a case study database. Collaboration and cooperation concepts within the framework of interagency public management can be understood as a shared desirable outcome that unites different agencies in committing efforts and resources to the accomplishment of a common goal for society, as seen in obtaining food and nutrition security for a specific territory. Collaboration emerges when the following conditions exist and decreases when they are absent: (1) a strong sponsorship that may come from a central government policy or from a distributed interagency consensus; (2) a clear definition of the participating agencies; (3) stability of the staff assigned to the coordination system; and (4) a fitness function for the staff, some mechanism to reward or punish the collaboration level of each individual in the interagency effort. As this research investigated only one case study, the findings must be taken with care and any generalization made from this study needs to be analytical in nature. Additionally, research must be done to accept these results universally. Food security and nutrition efforts are interagency in nature. For collaboration between agencies to emerge, a minimum set of characteristics that were established during the merging of the public management and sociobiology fields of knowledge and validated by means of a case study must be accomplished. Copyright © 2015 The Royal Society for Public Health. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

77 FR 43827 - International Workshop on Alternative Methods for Leptospira

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2012-07-26

... DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES International Workshop on Alternative Methods for... NTP Interagency Center for the Evaluation of Alternative Toxicological Methods (NICEATM) announces an ``International Workshop on Alternative Methods for Leptospira Vaccine Potency Testing: State of the Science and...

20 CFR 661.240 - How do the unified planning requirements apply to the five-year strategic WIA and Wagner-Peyser...

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-04-01

...) [Reserved] (6) Senior Community Service Employment Programs under title V of the Older Americans Act. (b... meeting the requirements of the Interagency guidance entitled State Unified Plan, Planning Guidance for...

78 FR 21340 - Information Collection: Annual Wildfire Summary Report

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2013-04-10

... Interagency Fire Center, USDA Forest Service, 3833 S. Development Avenue, Boise, ID, 83705. Comments also may... funding requests for the Forest Service State and Private Forestry Cooperative Fire Program. The program... DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE Forest Service Information Collection: Annual Wildfire Summary Report...

AN OVERVIEW OF THE MINE WASTE TECHNOLOGY PROGRAM PROJECTS

EPA Science Inventory

The Mine Waste Technology Program (MWTP) is an interagency agreement with the DOE and has partnerships with Universities, Forest Service, BLM, Industry and states. The mission of the MWTP is to provide engineering solutions to national environmental issues resulting from the past...

Interagency Cooperation for Irregular Warfare at the Combatant Command

DTIC Science & Technology

2009-01-01

Directorate, and the USSOCOM Interagency Task Force ( IATF ) offer examples of JIACGs coping with the issues of IW. Each organization possesses strengths...46 USSOCOM IATF History...Force for Irregular Warfare ( IATF IW).33 EUCOM conducts interagency

Transoceanic transport of metals and deposition in the Southeastern United States

NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

Holmes, C. W.

2003-12-01

Saharan dust is persistently being transported and deposited in ecosystems of the western Atlantic Ocean. Satellite photos reveal that this dust is transported in tropospheric low-pressure waves that cross the central Atlantic Ocean. This dust is an aggregate of clay and quartz particles cemented with iron oxides. Analysis of dust samples collected from Mali (central Africa), the Azores, the Caribbean and the Eastern United States show that metal concentrations are significantly higher than average crustal rocks. Over the past decade, there has been a significant effort to understand the cycling of mercury in south Florida, but other metals has received very little attention. Trace metal measurements on the ombrogeneous sediment formed during the last decade in south Florida indicates that metals can be correlated with aluminum, which is considered a proxy for dust. The largest available aerosol data set is provided by the IMPROVE (Interagency Monitoring of Protected Visual Environments) program. Focusing on arsenic as an example, the average concentration in aerosols collected during this program range from 17 mg/kg in the Virgin Islands to 79 mg/kg at Chassahowitzka, Florida. At Chassahowitzka, most of the arsenic appears to be associated with organic carbon. If it is assumed that the concentrations in Mali dust and in the aerosols in the Virgin Islands are indicative of soil dust, then the higher values at Chassahowitzka are most likely derived from local or regional sources. A simple calculation indicates that African dust supplies about 25 % of the arsenic deposited from aerosols in the southeastern United States. Comparison of the average yearly arsenic concentrations measured in the Virgin Islands and Everglades shows a negative relationship with the North Atlantic Oscillation Index (NAO). This relationship demonstrates the influence of climate on the transport and deposition of aerosols with associated metals to the southeastern United States.

Advancing research collaborations among agencies through the Interagency Arctic Research Policy Committee: A necessary step for linking science to policy.

NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

LaValley, M.; Starkweather, S.; Bowden, S.

2017-12-01

The Arctic is changing rapidly as average temperatures rise. As an Arctic nation, the United States is directly affected by these changes. It is imperative that these changes be understood to make effective policy decisions. Since the research needs of the Arctic are large and wide-ranging, most Federal agencies fund some aspect of Arctic research. As a result, the U.S. government regularly works to coordinate Federal Arctic research in order to reduce duplication of effort and costs, and to enhance the research's system perspective. The government's Interagency Arctic Research Policy Committee (IARPC) accomplishes this coordination through its policy-driven five-year Arctic Research Plans and collaboration teams (CTs), which are research topic-oriented teams tasked with implementing the plans. The policies put forth by IARPC thus inform science, however IARPC has been less successful of making these science outcomes part of an iterative decision making process. IARPC's mandate to facilitate coordinated research through information sharing communities can be viewed a prerequisite step in the science-to- decision making process. Research collaborations and the communities of practice facilitated by IARPC allow scientists to connect with a wider community of scientists and stakeholders and, in turn, the larger issues in need of policy solutions. These connections help to create a pathway through which research may increasingly reflect policy goals and inform decisions. IARPC has been growing into a more useful model for the science-to-decision making interface since the publication of its Arctic Research Plan FY2017-2021, and it is useful to evaluate how and why IARPC is progressing in this realm. To understand the challenges facing interagency research collaboration and the progress IARPC has made, the Chukchi Beaufort and Communities CTs, were evaluated as case studies. From the case studies, several recommendations for enhancing collaborations across Federal agencies emerge, including establishing appropriate agency leadership; determining focused and achievable scope of team goals; providing room for bottom-up, community-driven determination of goals; and finally, building relationships and creating an inclusive team environment.

48 CFR 242.002 - Interagency agreements.

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2010-10-01

... 48 Federal Acquisition Regulations System 3 2010-10-01 2010-10-01 false Interagency agreements. 242.002 Section 242.002 Federal Acquisition Regulations System DEFENSE ACQUISITION REGULATIONS SYSTEM, DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE CONTRACT MANAGEMENT CONTRACT ADMINISTRATION AND AUDIT SERVICES 242.002 Interagency...

Interagency collaboration models for people with mental ill health in contact with the police: a systematic scoping review.

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Parker, Adwoa; Scantlebury, Arabella; Booth, Alison; MacBryde, Jillian Catherine; Scott, William J; Wright, Kath; McDaid, Catriona

2018-03-27

To identify existing evidence on interagency collaboration between law enforcement, emergency services, statutory services and third sector agencies regarding people with mental ill health. Systematic scoping review. Scoping reviews map particular research areas to identify research gaps. ASSIA, CENTRAL, the Cochrane Library databases, Criminal Justice Abstracts, ERIC, Embase, MEDLINE, PsycINFO, PROSPERO and Social Care Online and Social Sciences Citation Index were searched up to 2017, as were grey literature and hand searches. Eligible articles were empirical evaluations or descriptions of models of interagency collaboration between the police and other agencies. Screening and data extraction were undertaken independently by two researchers. Arksey's framework was used to collate and map included studies. One hundred and twenty-five studies were included. The majority of articles were of descriptions of models (28%), mixed methods evaluations of models (18%) and single service evaluations (14%). The most frequently reported outcomes (52%) were 'organisational or service level outcomes' (eg, arrest rates). Most articles (53%) focused on adults with mental ill health, whereas others focused on adult offenders with mental ill health (17.4%). Thirteen models of interagency collaboration were described, each involving between 2 and 13 agencies. Frequently reported models were 'prearrest diversion' of people with mental ill health (34%), 'coresponse' involving joint response by police officers paired with mental health professionals (28.6%) and 'jail diversion' following arrest (23.8%). We identified 13 different interagency collaboration models catering for a range of mental health-related interactions. All but one of these models involved the police and mental health services or professionals. Several models have sufficient literature to warrant full systematic reviews of their effectiveness, whereas others need robust evaluation, by randomised controlled trial where appropriate. Future evaluations should focus on health-related outcomes and the impact on key stakeholders. © Article author(s) (or their employer(s) unless otherwise stated in the text of the article) 2018. All rights reserved. No commercial use is permitted unless otherwise expressly granted.

Interagency Consultation Meeting on Co-operation and Co-ordination in Environmental Education (3rd, Paris, France, November 6-8, 1990). Final Report.

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United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, Paris (France). Div. of Education for the Quality of Life.

United Nations agencies and other intergovernmental and nongovernmental organizations concerned with environmental education (EE) met for the third time by invitation of UNESCO in order to develop cooperation and coordination in EE and training among the agencies. This report of the meeting is presented in three sections. The first section reports…

Interagency Cooperation for Teacher Training.

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Sanspree, Mary Jean; Arthur-Allison, Carol

At the University of Alabama at Birmingham, a diversified program for training graduate level students in visual impairments involves state agencies in the training. Based on needs assessment data, the program was established using community resources as training sites and specialists as course instructors. Facilities participating include the…

Stakeholders' Views of Factors that Impact Successful Interagency Collaboration.

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Johnson, Lawrence J.; Tam, Brian Kai Yung; Zorn, Debbie; Lamontagne, Maggie; Johnson, Susan A.

2003-01-01

A study involving 33 stakeholders from nine early intervention state departments and three private social services agencies in Ohio investigated factors related to successful and unsuccessful collaborations. Significant differences were found between program chiefs and program specialists in two areas, factors jeopardizing interagency…

Chapter 3 The state of the land

USDA-ARS?s Scientific Manuscript database

The USDA-Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) has used resource inventories for over 65 years to assess the Nation’s natural resources on non-Federal lands. Since 1995, an interagency group composed of the NRCS, Agricultural Research Service (ARS), and Geological Survey (USGS) have worked t...

34 CFR 303.652 - Applications.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-07-01

... 34 Education 2 2010-07-01 2010-07-01 false Applications. 303.652 Section 303.652 Education... DISABILITIES State Interagency Coordinating Council Functions of the Council § 303.652 Applications. Each Council shall advise and assist the lead agency in the preparation of applications under this part and...

EMPACT: THE LAS VEGAS INTERAGENCY PILOT PROGRAM

EPA Science Inventory

ENPACT: The Las Vegas Interagency Pilot Project

The Las Vegas Interagency Pilot Project of the EMPACT program has involved eleven efforts. These efforts are described in brief on the poster presentation. They include: Las Vegas Environmental Monitoring Inventory, the Qual...

48 CFR 51.201 - Policy.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-10-01

... GOVERNMENT SOURCES BY CONTRACTORS Contractor Use of Interagency Fleet Management System (IFMS) 51.201 Policy... contractors to obtain, for official purposes only, interagency fleet management system (IFMS) vehicles and... instance. (c) Government contractors shall not be authorized to obtain interagency fleet management system...

Child abuse and neglect in Turkey: professional, governmental and non-governmental achievements in improving the national child protection system.

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Akco, Seda; Dagli, Tolga; Inanici, Mehmet Akif; Kaynak, Hatice; Oral, Resmiye; Sahin, Figen; Sofuoglu, Zeynep; Ulukol, Betul

2013-11-01

Since ratification of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child in 1995, significant efforts were made in Turkey to improve protection of children from abuse and neglect. The government took steps to amend relevant laws. Several state departments recognized the need for professional in-service training of relevant governmental agency staff. University hospitals established numerous hospital-based multidisciplinary child protection centres. The government established an Interministerial Higher Council, which has been overseeing the foundation of 13 child advocacy centres for a multidisciplinary and interagency response to child sexual abuse. In addition to undertaking research, non-governmental organizations contributed to this process by instituting professional and public education. These ground-breaking developments in the last decade give promise of even further improvement in the national child protection system from investigative, child protective and rehabilitative perspectives.

KSC-02pd1265

NASA Image and Video Library

2002-08-28

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - During the master plan signing ceremony at Port Canaveral Terminal 10, Matt Taylor gives a presentation to attendees, who included Canaveral National Seashore Superintendent Robert Newkirk, Canaveral Port Authority Executive Director Malcolm "Mac" McLouth, KSC Director Roy Bridges Jr., U.S. Rep. Dave Weldon, 45th Space Wing Commander Gregory Pavlovich, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Services Refuge Manager Ron Hight, Naval Ordnance Test Unit Commanding Officer William Borger, and Florida Space Authority Executive Director Ed Gormel. Taylor is vice president and chief planning officer of ZHA, Inc., which provided consulting services for the plan. The plan represents interagency cooperation between the leadership group's agencies and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the National Park Service and U.S. Navy. Joining them in developing a vision of the Spaceport's future have been aerospace educators, researchers, and businesses, along with representatives from local, state and national government.

The National Geothermal Energy Research Program

NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)

Green, R. J.

1974-01-01

The continuous demand for energy and the concern for shortages of conventional energy resources have spurred the nation to consider alternate energy resources, such as geothermal. Although significant growth in the one natural steam field located in the United States has occurred, a major effort is now needed if geothermal energy, in its several forms, is to contribute to the nation's energy supplies. From the early informal efforts of an Interagency Panel for Geothermal Energy Research, a 5-year Federal program has evolved whose objective is the rapid development of a commercial industry for the utilization of geothermal resources for electric power production and other products. The Federal program seeks to evaluate the realistic potential of geothermal energy, to support the necessary research and technology needed to demonstrate the economic and environmental feasibility of the several types of geothermal resources, and to address the legal and institutional problems concerned in the stimulation and regulation of this new industry.

Implementing the global health security agenda: lessons from global health and security programs.

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Paranjape, Suman M; Franz, David R

2015-01-01

The Global Health Security Agenda (GHSA) describes a vision for a world that is safe and secure from infectious disease threats; it underscores the importance of developing the international capacity to prevent, detect, and respond to pandemic agents. In February 2014, the United States committed to support the GHSA by expanding and intensifying ongoing efforts across the US government. Implementing these goals will require interagency coordination and harmonization of diverse health security elements. Lessons learned from the Global Health Initiative (GHI), the President's Emergency Program for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), and the Cooperative Threat Reduction (CTR) program underscore that centralized political, technical, and fiscal authority will be key to developing robust, sustainable, and integrated global health security efforts across the US government. In this article, we review the strengths and challenges of GHI, PEPFAR, and CTR and develop recommendations for implementing a unified US global health security program.

Evaluation of the Inhalation Carcinogenicity of Ethylene Oxide ...

EPA Pesticide Factsheets

In December 2016, EPA finalized its Evaluation of the Inhalation Carcinogenicity of Ethylene Oxide. EPA’s evaluation was reviewed internally by EPA and by other federal agencies and White House Offices in October 2016, before public release. Consistent with the May 2009 IRIS assessment development process, all written comments on IRIS assessments submitted by other federal agencies and White House Offices are made publicly available. Accordingly, interagency comments and the interagency science discussion materials provided to other agencies, including interagency review drafts of the EPA’s Evaluation of the Inhalation Carcinogenicity of Ethylene Oxide, are posted on this site. Note: No major science comments were received on the Interagency Science Discussion Draft. The Toxicological Review and charge were reviewed internally by EPA and by other federal agencies and White House Offices before public release. Consistent with the May 2009 IRIS assessment development process, all written comments on IRIS assessments submitted by other federal agencies and White House Offices are made publicly available. Accordingly, interagency comments and the interagency science consultation materials provided to other agencies, including interagency review drafts of the IRIS Toxicological Review of Ammonia and the charge to external peer reviewers, are posted on this site.

A Review of Federal and State Regulations for Day Care Programs and Facilities. Center for Human Services Development Report No. 10.

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Hollick, Rosemary; And Others

This report provides a review of U.S. regulatory standards for day care programs and facilities and makes recommendations for the revision of day care regulations in Pennsylvania. Following a brief discussion of federal interagency requirements, a number of short descriptive analyses compare individual state standards in the areas of licensing,…

NEC*TAS Financing Workbook: An Interagency Process for Planning and Implementing a Financing System for Early Intervention and Preschool Services.

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Williams, Sarah; Kates, Donald A.

This workbook addresses the need for information and guidance that can help states and communities meet the short-term and long-term challenges of developing community-oriented financing for early intervention and preschool special education services. It is intended for state officials, advocates, and task force members who carry out or assist…

Special Education: Financing Health and Educational Services for Handicapped Children. Briefing Report to the Chairman, Subcommittee on Select Education, Committee on Education and Labor, House of Representatives.

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General Accounting Office, Washington, DC. Div. of Human Resources.

To obtain information concerning interagency agreements which use the resources of various state agencies to serve handicapped children, state agency officials in Connecticut and Maryland responsible for establishing and implementing such agreements were interviewed by Government Accounting Office officials, and pertinent documents were reviewed.…

7 CFR 201.75 - Interagency certification.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

2014-01-01

..., Inspections, Marketing Practices), DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE (CONTINUED) FEDERAL SEED ACT FEDERAL SEED ACT REGULATIONS Certified Seed § 201.75 Interagency certification. Interagency certification may be accomplished... certify a lot of seed. (a) The certifying agency issuing labels for all classes of certified seed shall...

7 CFR 201.75 - Interagency certification.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-01-01

..., Inspections, Marketing Practices), DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE (CONTINUED) FEDERAL SEED ACT FEDERAL SEED ACT REGULATIONS Certified Seed § 201.75 Interagency certification. Interagency certification may be accomplished... certify a lot of seed. (a) The certifying agency issuing labels for all classes of certified seed shall...

7 CFR 201.75 - Interagency certification.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

2012-01-01

..., Inspections, Marketing Practices), DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE (CONTINUED) FEDERAL SEED ACT FEDERAL SEED ACT REGULATIONS Certified Seed § 201.75 Interagency certification. Interagency certification may be accomplished... certify a lot of seed. (a) The certifying agency issuing labels for all classes of certified seed shall...

7 CFR 201.75 - Interagency certification.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

2013-01-01

..., Inspections, Marketing Practices), DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE (CONTINUED) FEDERAL SEED ACT FEDERAL SEED ACT REGULATIONS Certified Seed § 201.75 Interagency certification. Interagency certification may be accomplished... certify a lot of seed. (a) The certifying agency issuing labels for all classes of certified seed shall...

7 CFR 201.75 - Interagency certification.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

2011-01-01

..., Inspections, Marketing Practices), DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE (CONTINUED) FEDERAL SEED ACT FEDERAL SEED ACT REGULATIONS Certified Seed § 201.75 Interagency certification. Interagency certification may be accomplished... certify a lot of seed. (a) The certifying agency issuing labels for all classes of certified seed shall...

76 FR 67747 - Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee; Call for Nominations

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2011-11-02

... DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES National Institutes of Health Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee; Call for Nominations In accordance with Public Law 112-32, The Combating Autism... Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee (IACC) until September 30, 2014 and is seeking nominations for...

41 CFR 101-39.300 - General.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-07-01

... FEDERAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT REGULATIONS AVIATION, TRANSPORTATION, AND MOTOR VEHICLES 39-INTERAGENCY FLEET MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS 39.3-Use and Care of GSA Interagency Fleet Management System Vehicles § 101-39.300 General. (a) The objective of the General Services Administration (GSA) Interagency Fleet Management System...

41 CFR 101-39.302 - Rotation.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-07-01

... FEDERAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT REGULATIONS AVIATION, TRANSPORTATION, AND MOTOR VEHICLES 39-INTERAGENCY FLEET MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS 39.3-Use and Care of GSA Interagency Fleet Management System Vehicles § 101-39.302 Rotation. GSA Interagency Fleet Management System (IFMS) vehicles on high mileage assignments may be...

48 CFR 41.206 - Interagency agreements.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

2011-10-01

... 48 Federal Acquisition Regulations System 1 2011-10-01 2011-10-01 false Interagency agreements. 41... agreements. Agencies shall use interagency agreements (e.g., consolidated purchase, joint use, or cross-service agreements) when acquiring utility service or facilities from other Government agencies and shall...

48 CFR 41.206 - Interagency agreements.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

2014-10-01

... 48 Federal Acquisition Regulations System 1 2014-10-01 2014-10-01 false Interagency agreements. 41... agreements. Agencies shall use interagency agreements (e.g., consolidated purchase, joint use, or cross-service agreements) when acquiring utility service or facilities from other Government agencies and shall...

48 CFR 41.206 - Interagency agreements.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-10-01

... 48 Federal Acquisition Regulations System 1 2010-10-01 2010-10-01 false Interagency agreements. 41... agreements. Agencies shall use interagency agreements (e.g., consolidated purchase, joint use, or cross-service agreements) when acquiring utility service or facilities from other Government agencies and shall...

77 FR 64347 - Notice of Diabetes Mellitus Interagency Coordinating Committee Meeting

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2012-10-19

... November 15, 2012, DMICC meeting will focus on ``Federal Initiatives To Address Gestational Diabetes... DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES National Institutes of Health Notice of Diabetes Mellitus Interagency Coordinating Committee Meeting SUMMARY: The Diabetes Mellitus Interagency Coordinating Committee...

The Problem with Toxic Wastes.

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Beecher, John L.; Fossa, Arthur J.

1980-01-01

Traced is the historical development of toxic waste problems in western New York State from 1825 to the present. Three major data sources are described: Industrial Chemical Survey, Inventory of Industrial Waste Generation Study, and the Interagency Task Force Study, developed by the Department of Environmental Conservation to prevent future…

How We Can Win the Long War: A New Interagency Approach to the GWOT

DTIC Science & Technology

2009-04-01

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe states, “Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Begin it now.” 17...Case for Strengthening the Department of State” 1 16 Schwarzkopf, Norman, “Famous Military Quotes”, 1 17 Goethe , Johan Wolfgang Van, Famous

Parents Speak Out.

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Westphal, Sheila

1991-01-01

This issue of the "Early Childhood Bulletin" highlights some of the major concerns raised by parents during the second national meeting of parent members of state Interagency Coordinating Councils (ICCs) for early intervention, which was held in conjunction with the Partnerships for Progress Conference IV in Crystal City, Arlington, VA,…

77 FR 35866 - Approval and Promulgation of Implementation Plans; Revisions to the Georgia State Implementation...

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2012-06-15

... (GA DNR), on November 16, 2010. This revision consists of transportation conformity criteria and procedures related to interagency consultation and enforceability of certain transportation-related control measures and mitigation measures. The intended effect is to update the transportation conformity criteria...

Ikhana: Unmanned Aircraft System Western States Fire Missions. Monographs in Aerospace History, Number 44

NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)

Merlin, Peter W.

2009-01-01

In 2006, NASA Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, Calif., obtained a civil version of the General Atomics MQ-9 unmanned aircraft system and modified it for research purposes. Proposed missions included support of Earth science research, development of advanced aeronautical technology, and improving the utility of unmanned aerial systems in general. The project team named the aircraft Ikhana a Native American Choctaw word meaning intelligent, conscious, or aware in order to best represent NASA research goals. Building on experience with these and other unmanned aircraft, NASA scientists developed plans to use the Ikhana for a series of missions to map wildfires in the western United States and supply the resulting data to firefighters in near-real time. A team at NASA Ames Research Center, Mountain View, Calif., developed a multispectral scanner that was key to the success of what became known as the Western States Fire Missions. Carried out by team members from NASA, the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service, National Interagency Fire Center, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Federal Aviation Administration, and General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc., these flights represented an historic achievement in the field of unmanned aircraft technology.

75 FR 71792 - Federal Interagency Committee on Emergency Medical Services Meeting Notice

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2010-11-24

..., Directorate of Emergency Preparedness and Response of the Department of Homeland Security, to provide.... NHTSA-2010-0156] Federal Interagency Committee on Emergency Medical Services Meeting Notice AGENCY... Committee on Emergency Medical Services. SUMMARY: NHTSA announces a meeting of the Federal Interagency...

10 CFR 473.23 - Interagency review panel.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

2013-01-01

... 10 Energy 3 2013-01-01 2013-01-01 false Interagency review panel. 473.23 Section 473.23 Energy DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY ENERGY CONSERVATION AUTOMOTIVE PROPULSION RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT Review and Certification of Grants, Cooperative Agreements, Contracts, and Projects § 473.23 Interagency review panel. (a...

10 CFR 473.23 - Interagency review panel.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

2012-01-01

... 10 Energy 3 2012-01-01 2012-01-01 false Interagency review panel. 473.23 Section 473.23 Energy DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY ENERGY CONSERVATION AUTOMOTIVE PROPULSION RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT Review and Certification of Grants, Cooperative Agreements, Contracts, and Projects § 473.23 Interagency review panel. (a...

10 CFR 473.23 - Interagency review panel.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

2011-01-01

... 10 Energy 3 2011-01-01 2011-01-01 false Interagency review panel. 473.23 Section 473.23 Energy DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY ENERGY CONSERVATION AUTOMOTIVE PROPULSION RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT Review and Certification of Grants, Cooperative Agreements, Contracts, and Projects § 473.23 Interagency review panel. (a...

10 CFR 473.23 - Interagency review panel.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-01-01

... 10 Energy 3 2010-01-01 2010-01-01 false Interagency review panel. 473.23 Section 473.23 Energy DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY ENERGY CONSERVATION AUTOMOTIVE PROPULSION RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT Review and Certification of Grants, Cooperative Agreements, Contracts, and Projects § 473.23 Interagency review panel. (a...

10 CFR 473.23 - Interagency review panel.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

2014-01-01

... 10 Energy 3 2014-01-01 2014-01-01 false Interagency review panel. 473.23 Section 473.23 Energy DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY ENERGY CONSERVATION AUTOMOTIVE PROPULSION RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT Review and Certification of Grants, Cooperative Agreements, Contracts, and Projects § 473.23 Interagency review panel. (a...

41 CFR 101-39.202 - Contractor authorized services.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-07-01

... VEHICLES 39-INTERAGENCY FLEET MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS 39.2-GSA Interagency Fleet Management System Services... related GSA Interagency Fleet Management System (IFMS) services solely for official purposes. (b) To the... -leased equipment which is not controlled by a GSA IFMS fleet management center, or for authorized...

78 FR 12334 - Proposed Collection; Comment Request: Federal Interagency Traumatic Brain Injury Research (FITBIR...

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2013-02-22

... DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES National Institutes of Health Proposed Collection; Comment Request: Federal Interagency Traumatic Brain Injury Research (FITBIR) Informatics System Data Access...-days of the date of this publication. Proposed Collection: Federal Interagency Traumatic Brain Injury...

Perspectives on Interagency Collaboration.

ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

Western States Technical Assistance Resource, Monmouth, OR.

Seven papers are presented from a 1982 conference on interagency collaboration in special education. Participants at the conference represented a variety of disciplines. B. McNulty and E. Soper cite 14 critical elements of successful interagency practice in chapter I, including communication, conflict resolution strategies, commitment to an…

Community Interagency Connections for Immigrant Worker Health Interventions, King County, Washington State, 2012-2013.

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Tsai, Jenny Hsin-Chin; Petrescu-Prahova, Miruna

2016-06-02

Cross-sector community partnerships are a potentially powerful strategy to address population health problems, including health disparities. US immigrants - commonly employed in low-wage jobs that pose high risks to their health - experience such disparities because of hazardous exposures in the workplace. Hazardous exposures contribute to chronic health problems and complicate disease management. Moreover, prevention strategies such as worksite wellness programs are not effective for low-wage immigrant groups. The purpose of this article was to describe an innovative application of social network analysis to characterize interagency connections and knowledge needed to design and deliver a comprehensive community-based chronic disease prevention program for immigrant workers. Using iterative sample expansion, we identified 42 agencies representing diverse community sectors (service agencies, faith-based organizations, unions, nonprofits, government agencies) pertinent to the health of Chinese immigrant workers. To capture data on shared information, resources, and services as well as organizational characteristics, we jointly interviewed 2 representatives from each agency. We used social network analysis to describe interagency network structure and the positions of agencies within the networks. Agency interconnections were established primarily for information sharing. In the overall interagency network, a few service-oriented agencies held central or gatekeeper positions. Strong interconnectedness occurred predominately across service, public, and nonprofit sectors. The Chinese and Pan-Asian service sectors showed the strongest interconnectedness. Network analysis yields critical understanding of community structural links and assets needed to inform decisions about actual and potential community collaborations. Alternative intervention strategies may be needed to address health disparities among immigrant workers.

Weak and Failing States: Evolving Security Threats and U.S. Policy

DTIC Science & Technology

2007-11-15

operate in both “ caves ” (i.e., failed states, where militant groups can exist CRS-6 11 Rabasa (2007), ibid. 12 U.S. Government Interagency Working Group...Support to Low-Income Countries Under Stress (Washington, DC: The World Bank, 2006); Chauvet and Collier, “Helping Hand? Aid to Failing States...Oxford University Working Paper (2006). 24 See Chauvet and Collier (2004), op. cit.; Francois Bourguignon, “Broadening Progress Toward the MDGs,” Speech

Weak and Failing States: Evolving Security Threats and U.S. Policy

DTIC Science & Technology

2007-11-15

operate in both “ caves ” (i.e., failed states, where militant groups can exist CRS-6 11 Rabasa (2007), ibid. 12 U.S. Government Interagency Working Group...Support to Low-Income Countries Under Stress (Washington, DC: The World Bank, 2006); Chauvet and Collier, “Helping Hand? Aid to Failing States,” Oxford...University Working Paper (2006). 24 See Chauvet and Collier (2004), op. cit.; Francois Bourguignon, “Broadening Progress Toward the MDGs,” Speech

Medicinal and recreational marijuana use among HIV-infected women in the Women's Interagency HIV Study (WIHS) cohort, 1994-2010.

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Dʼsouza, Gypsyamber; Matson, Pamela A; Grady, Cynthia D; Nahvi, Shadi; Merenstein, Dan; Weber, Kathleen M; Greenblatt, Ruth; Burian, Pam; Wilson, Tracey E

2012-12-15

Despite the major benefits of effective antiretroviral therapy on HIV-related survival, there is an ongoing need to help alleviate medication side effects related to antiretroviral therapy use. Initial studies suggest that marijuana use may reduce HIV-related symptoms, but medical marijuana use among HIV-infected individuals has not been well described. The authors evaluated trends in marijuana use and reported motivations for use among 2776 HIV-infected women in the Women's Interagency HIV Study between October 1994 and March 2010. Predictors of any and daily marijuana use were explored in multivariate logistic regression models clustered by person using generalized estimating equation. In 2009, participants were asked if their marijuana use was medical, "meaning prescribed by a doctor," or recreational, or both. Over the 16 years of this study, the prevalence of current marijuana use decreased significantly from 21% to 14%. In contrast, daily marijuana use almost doubled from 3.3% to 6.1% of all women and from 18% to 51% of current marijuana users. Relaxation, appetite improvement, reduction of HIV-related symptoms, and social use were reported as common reasons for marijuana use. In 2009, most marijuana users reported either purely medicinal use (26%) or both medicinal and recreational usage (29%). Daily marijuana use was associated with higher CD4 cell count, quality of life, and older age. Demographic characteristics and risk behaviors were associated with current marijuana use overall but were not predictors of daily use. This study suggests that both recreational and medicinal marijuana use are relatively common among HIV-infected women in the United States.

The Spatial and Seasonal Variability in Fine Mineral Dust and Coarse Mass Concentrations at Remote Sites across the United States

NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

Hand, J. L.; White, W. H.; Hyslop, N. P.; Schichtel, B. A.; Gill, T. E.

2016-12-01

Mineral dust influences air quality, visibility, health, hydrology, heterogeneous chemistry, biogeochemistry, ecology, and climate. The spatial and seasonal variability of fine (PM2.5) mineral dust (FD, mineral particles with diameters less than 2.5 µm) and coarse mass (CM, mass of particles with diameters between 2.5 and 10 µm) were characterized at over 160 rural and remote sites in the United States from the Interagency Monitoring of Protected Visual Environments (IMPROVE) network. Monthly, seasonal, and annual means were computed for 2011 through 2014 to investigate the spatial and seasonal variability of FD and CM. Regions with significant FD included the Southwest in spring (≥ 50% contributions to PM2.5 mass) and in the Midwest, Midsouth, and Southeast regions in summer (20-30% of PM2.5 mass). The seasonality of FD and CM decoupled farther from local source regions suggesting long-range transport of FD or non-dust related CM. FD mineralogy was also explored and confirmed the seasonal and regional impacts of long-range transport. Temporal trends in FD from 2000-2014 revealed regions and seasons with significantly increased FD, especially the Southwest during spring months, the central United States during summer and fall, and the Southeast in summer—all regions that were associated with significant contributions of FD to PM2.5 mass. Positive trends in FD contrast negative trends in other major aerosol species over the same time periods, further enhancing the relative importance of FD to PM2.5 mass. Increased levels of FD have important implications for its environmental and climate impacts; mitigating these impacts will require identifying and characterizing source regions and causal mechanisms for dust episodes in order to better inform resource management decisions.

Leveraging Big Data Analysis Techniques for U.S. Vocational Vehicle Drive Cycle Characterization, Segmentation, and Development

DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI.GOV)

Duran, Adam W; Phillips, Caleb T; Perr-Sauer, Jordan

Under a collaborative interagency agreement between the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) performed a series of in-depth analyses to characterize on-road driving behavior including distributions of vehicle speed, idle time, accelerations and decelerations, and other driving metrics of medium- and heavy-duty vocational vehicles operating within the United States. As part of this effort, NREL researchers segmented U.S. medium- and heavy-duty vocational vehicle driving characteristics into three distinct operating groups or clusters using real-world drive cycle data collected at 1 Hz and stored in NREL's Fleet DNA database. Themore » Fleet DNA database contains millions of miles of historical drive cycle data captured from medium- and heavy-duty vehicles operating across the United States. The data encompass existing DOE activities as well as contributions from valued industry stakeholder participants. For this project, data captured from 913 unique vehicles comprising 16,250 days of operation were drawn from the Fleet DNA database and examined. The Fleet DNA data used as a source for this analysis has been collected from a total of 30 unique fleets/data providers operating across 22 unique geographic locations spread across the United States. This includes locations with topographies ranging from the foothills of Denver, Colorado, to the flats of Miami, Florida. This paper includes the results of the statistical analysis performed by NREL and a discussion and detailed summary of the development of the vocational drive cycle weights and representative transient drive cycles for testing and simulation. Additional discussion of known limitations and potential future work is also included.« less

Fires Across the Western United States

NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)

2007-01-01

Days of record heat made the western United States tinder dry in early July 2007. Numerous wildfires raced across the dry terrain during the weekend of July 7. From Washington to Arizona, firefighters were battling fast-moving wildfires that threatened residences, businesses, gas wells, coal mines, communications equipment, and municipal watersheds. This image of the West was captured by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA's Terra satellite on Sunday, July 8. Places where MODIS detected actively burning fires are marked in red. Some of the largest blazes are labeled. Utah's Milford Flat was the largest; according to the July 9 morning report from the National Interagency Fire Center, the blaze was more than 280,000 acres, having grown more than 124,000 acres in the previous 24 hours. The fires have destroyed homes, forced evacuations, shut down trains and highways, and killed several people. Weather conditions were not expected to improve significantly across much of the area for several days, with hot temperatures and dry thunderstorms (lightning and winds, but little rain) likely in many places. Nearly the entire western United States was experiencing some level of drought as of July 3, according to the U.S. Drought Monitor. The drought had reached the 'extreme' category in southern California and western Arizona, and ranged from moderate to severe across most of the rest of the Southwest and Great Basin. The large image provided above has a spatial resolution (level of detail) of 500 meters per pixel. The MODIS Rapid Response Team provides twice-daily images of the region in additional resolutions and formats, including an infrared-enhanced version that makes burned terrain appear brick red. NASA image courtesy the MODIS Rapid Response Team, Goddard Space Flight Center

Arctic Research Plan: FY2017-2021

USGS Publications Warehouse

Starkweather, Sandy; Jeffries, Martin O; Stephenson, Simon; Anderson, Rebecca D.; Jones, Benjamin M.; Loehman, Rachel A.; von Biela, Vanessa R.

2016-01-01

The United States is an Arctic nation—Americans depend on the Arctic for biodiversity and climate regulation and for natural resources. America’s Arctic—Alaska—is at the forefront of rapid climate, environmental, and socio-economic changes that are testing the resilience and sustainability of communities and ecosystems. Research to increase fundamental understanding of these changes is needed to inform sound, science-based decision- and policy-making and to develop appropriate solutions for Alaska and the Arctic region as a whole. Created by an Act of Congress in 1984, and since 2010 a subcommittee of the National Science and Technology Council (NSTC) in the Executive Office of the President, the Interagency Arctic Research Policy Committee (IARPC) plays a critical role in advancing scientific knowledge and understanding of the changing Arctic and its impacts far beyond the boundaries of the Arctic. Comprising 14 Federal agencies, offices, and departments, IARPC is responsible for the implementation of a 5-year Arctic Research Plan in consultation with the U.S. Arctic Research Commission, the Governor of the State of Alaska, residents of the Arctic, the private sector, and public interest groups.

Recent Developments in Space Debris Mitigation Policy and Practices

NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)

Johnson, Nicholas L.

2006-01-01

In recent years, emphasis has shifted from national efforts to control the space debris population to international ones. Here, too, great progress has been made, most notably by the Inter-Agency Space Debris Coordination Committee (IADC) and the Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (COPUOS) of the United Nations. Today, a firm international consensus is rapidly building on the principal space debris mitigation measures. The IADC is an association of the space agencies of ten countries (China, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Russia, Ukraine, the United Kingdom, and the United States) and the European Space Agency, representing 17 countries of which four (France, Germany, Italy, and the United Kingdom) are also full IADC members. At the 17th meeting of the IADC in October 1999, a new Action Item (AI 17.2) was adopted to develop a set of consensus space debris mitigation guidelines. The purpose of the activity was to identify the most valuable space debris mitigation measures and to reach an international agreement on common directives. The IADC Space Debris Mitigation Guidelines (www.iadc-online.org/index.cgi?item=docs_pub) were formally adopted in October 2002 during the Second World Space Congress in Houston, Texas. Two years later a companion document, entitled Support to the IADC Space Debris Mitigation Guidelines, was completed to provide background and clarification for the guidelines.

76 FR 50234 - National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences Notice of Meetings

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41 CFR 109-39.105-2 - Agency requests to withdraw participation.

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2010-07-01

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41 CFR 101-39.201 - Services available.

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2010-07-01

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78 FR 14561 - Notice of Diabetes Mellitus Interagency Coordinating Committee Meeting

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18 CFR 701.54 - Interagency Liaison Committee.

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2013-04-01

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2014-04-01

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18 CFR 701.54 - Interagency Liaison Committee.

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2010-04-01

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18 CFR 701.54 - Interagency Liaison Committee.

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2012-04-01

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18 CFR 701.54 - Interagency Liaison Committee.

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2011-04-01

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78 FR 37834 - Submission for OMB review; 30-Day Comment Request; Federal Interagency Traumatic Brain Injury...

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2013-06-24

... DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES National Institutes of Health Submission for OMB review; 30-Day Comment Request; Federal Interagency Traumatic Brain Injury Research (FITBIR) Informatics... Interagency Traumatic Brain Injury Research (FITBIR) Informatics System Data Access Request. 0925-NEW...

Obtaining Related Services through Local Interagency Collaboration.

ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

Olsen, Kenneth R.

Designed as a resource for local school administrators, the report describes the experiences of 15 local special education agencies in providing related services at reasonable cost through interagency cooperation. An introductory chapter discusses the role of interagency committees (both policy and direct service types), and provides information…

A Demonstration Model of Interagency Collaboration for Students with Disabilities: A Multilevel Approach

ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

Flowers, Claudia; Test, David W.; Povenmire-Kirk, Tiana C.; Diegelmann, Karen M.; Bunch-Crump, Kimberly R.; Kemp-Inman, Amy; Goodnight, Crystalyn I.

2018-01-01

Communicating Interagency Relationships and Collaborative Linkages for Exceptional Students (CIRCLES) is a transition-planning service delivery model designed to guide schools in implementing interagency collaboration. This study examined the impact of CIRCLES on students' self-determination and participation in individualized education program…

The Use of Space Technology for Environmental Security, Disaster Rehabilitation and Sustainable Development in Afghanistan and Iraq

NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

Lovett, Kian

Since the dawn of time, humans have engaged in war. In the last 5,600 years of recorded history 14,600 wars have been waged1. The United Nations has sought to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war and to foster peace. Wars have recently taken place in Afghanistan and Iraq. Both countries are now faced with a range of complex problems. In-depth country assessments reveal significant shortcomings in the areas of water, sanitation, health, security and natural resource management. These are key factors when examining environmental security, sustainable development and trans-boundary problems, all of which are issues relevant to the Middle East and Central Asian states. Space technology can be applied to support the reconstruction and development plans for Afghanistan and Iraq; however, there needs to be an investigation and open discussion of how these resources can best be used. Already, agencies within the United Nations possess considerable expertise in the use of space technologies in the area of disaster management. If this capability is to be used, there will need to be inter-agency coordination, not to mention a further expansion and development of the United Nations role in both Afghanistan and Iraq.

Environmental Assessment for Physical Fitness Center Tinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma

DTIC Science & Technology

2010-04-01

Contract FICON Federal Interagency Committee on Urban Noise FY fiscal year FONSI finding of no significant impact GWTP groundwater treatment plant...units that are in good condition. Interior. The lounge areas, kitchen , and recreation rooms are bright with all colors aesthetically balanced. All...farmland had long since been urbanized and, therefore, no longer met prime farmland criteria. According to the USDA NRCS, the soil at Tinker AFB

Sine Qua Non: Expanding the Operational Art Form to Incorporate Interagency Function

DTIC Science & Technology

2010-05-21

the pages of this monograph with their leadership, perspectives, advice, and service to the nation. Among them: Christian Barratt , Dr. Tom W...2010; Christian Barratt (USAID representative to EPRT5) email to author, February 21, 2010. 38 incoming unit, 2/25 SBCT and the other members of...116 Operational Leadership Experiences Project: Interview with Major John Dale Highfill, January 27, 2010; Christian Barratt (USAID

Building Civilian Interagency Capacity for Missions Abroad: Key Proposals and Issues for Congress

DTIC Science & Technology

2012-01-23

5f. WORK UNIT NUMBER 7. PERFORMING ORGANIZATION NAME(S) AND ADDRESS(ES) The Library of Congress ,Congressional Research Service,101 Independence...Ave, SE,Washington,DC,20540 8. PERFORMING ORGANIZATION REPORT NUMBER 9. SPONSORING/MONITORING AGENCY NAME(S) AND ADDRESS(ES) 10. SPONSOR/MONITOR’S...the past two decades, prominent foreign policy organizations and foreign policy experts have perceived serious deficiencies in the authorities

Review and Recommendations for the Interagency Ship Structure Committee’s Fiscal 1984 Research Program,

DTIC Science & Technology

1983-01-01

Daily. Proposal Evaluation Procedure Organizations interested in doing the work adverstised submit proposals and cost estimates. The USCG contracting...types of offshore structures. These structures have largely been fixed platforms for petroleum drilling and production, and mobile offshore drilling...structures and of those mobile drilling units that are bottom supported, such as jack-ups and submersibles. Structures which are held in place by anchors

Environmental Assessment: Access Roads and An Associated Interior Road, Centennial Estates Lease, Ellsworth AFB, SD

DTIC Science & Technology

2012-05-01

Currently, 283 military housing units are present at EAFB. Current plans indicate that the new access points and roads for Centennial Estates...will also be equipped with typical underground utilities, easements and standard street lights. This EA has been prepared to facilitate planning ...8 3.3 Outfall Map 9 Appendices 10 A Interagency and Intergovernmental Coordination for Environmental Planning Correspondence 11 B Public Notice

76 FR 7225 - National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences; Notice of Meetings

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... below at least 10 days in advance of the meeting. Name of Committee: Interagency Breast Cancer and... 27709, (919) 541-4980, [email protected] . Name of Committee: Interagency Breast Cancer and... 27709, (919) 541-4980, [email protected] . Name of Committee: Interagency Breast Cancer and...

76 FR 24896 - National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences; Notice of Meetings

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The Relationship between Mental Health, Vocational Rehabilitation Interagency Functioning, and Outcome of Psychiatrically Disabled Persons.

ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

Dellario, Donald J.

1985-01-01

Conducted structured interviews of seven selected Mental Health (MH) and Vocational Rehabilitation (VR) dyads to assess interagency functioning, and compared results to selected interagency performance indicators. Results suggested that improved MH-VR linkages can increase the probability of successful rehabilitation outcomes for psychiatrically…

48 CFR 18.113 - Interagency acquisitions under the Economy Act.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-10-01

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41 CFR 101-39.304 - Modification or installation of accessory equipment.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-07-01

..., TRANSPORTATION, AND MOTOR VEHICLES 39-INTERAGENCY FLEET MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS 39.3-Use and Care of GSA Interagency Fleet Management System Vehicles § 101-39.304 Modification or installation of accessory equipment. The modification of a GSA Interagency Fleet Management System (IFMS) vehicle or the permanent installation of...

41 CFR 101-39.204 - Obtaining motor vehicles for indefinite assignment.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-07-01

..., TRANSPORTATION, AND MOTOR VEHICLES 39-INTERAGENCY FLEET MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS 39.2-GSA Interagency Fleet Management... related services of the GSA Interagency Fleet Management System (IFMS) are provided to requesting agencies... have been consolidated into the supporting GSA IFMS fleet management center, and no agency-owned...

41 CFR 109-39.300 - General.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-07-01

... 39-INTERAGENCY FLEET MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS 39.3-Use and Care of GSA Interagency Fleet Management System... operators and passengers in GSA Interagency Fleet Management System (IFMS) motor vehicles are aware of the... 41 Public Contracts and Property Management 3 2010-07-01 2010-07-01 false General. 109-39.300...

75 FR 32942 - National Toxicology Program (NTP); NTP Interagency Center for the Evaluation of Alternative...

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36 CFR 73.11 - Federal Interagency Panel for World Heritage.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

2011-07-01

... World Heritage. 73.11 Section 73.11 Parks, Forests, and Public Property NATIONAL PARK SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR WORLD HERITAGE CONVENTION § 73.11 Federal Interagency Panel for World Heritage. (a) Responsibilities. The Federal Interagency Panel for World Heritage is established to advise the Department of the...

Interagency Plan for Children with Special Needs.

ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

Maryland State Dept. of Health and Mental Hygiene, Baltimore.

The Interagency Plan for Children with Special Needs for Maryland residents has three major purposes: (1) to set priorities for developing or expanding services required by special needs children and their families; (2) to ensure that resources targeted for special needs children are administered effectively by increasing interagency coordination…

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78 FR 11820 - Interagency Ocean Observation Committee, Meeting of the Data Management and Communications...

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5 CFR 410.305 - Establishing and using interagency training.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-01-01

... service, or savings to the Government. Section 201(e) of Executive Order 11348 provides for the Office of... States Code, when this would result in better training, improved service, or savings to the Government... training. 410.305 Section 410.305 Administrative Personnel OFFICE OF PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT CIVIL SERVICE...

An Overview of Phytophthora ramorum in Washington State

Treesearch

Gary A. Chastagner; Katie Coats; Marianne Elliott

2013-01-01

Sudden oak death (SOD), caused by Phytophthora ramorum, is lethal to tanoak (Notholithocarpus densiflorus (Hook. & Arn.) Manos, Cannon & S.H. Oh), and threatens this species throughout its range in Oregon. The disease was first discovered in coastal southwest Oregon forests in July 2001. Since then an interagency team...

Critical Program Elements in Transition to Adulthood: Comparative Analysis of New York State and the NLTS2

ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

Karpur, Arun; Brewer, David; Golden, Thomas

2014-01-01

Access to effective and comprehensive transition programming is pivotal to transition of youth with disabilities to work and independent living. Successful programs often blend key ingredients, including individualized educational planning, career development, work experiences in secondary school, and interagency partnerships/collaborations.…

34 CFR 303.604 - Conflict of interest.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-07-01

... 34 Education 2 2010-07-01 2010-07-01 false Conflict of interest. 303.604 Section 303.604 Education... DISABILITIES State Interagency Coordinating Council General § 303.604 Conflict of interest. No member of the... otherwise give the appearance of a conflict of interest. (Approved by the Office of Management and Budget...

40 CFR 51.372 - State Implementation Plan submissions.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

2011-07-01

... compliance; (5) Legal authority requiring or allowing implementation of the I/M program and providing either broad or specific authority to perform all required elements of the program; (6) Legal authority for I/M... without an I/M program is approved by EPA); (7) Implementing regulations, interagency agreements, and...

40 CFR 51.372 - State Implementation Plan submissions.

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2012-07-01

... compliance; (5) Legal authority requiring or allowing implementation of the I/M program and providing either broad or specific authority to perform all required elements of the program; (6) Legal authority for I/M... without an I/M program is approved by EPA); (7) Implementing regulations, interagency agreements, and...

40 CFR 51.372 - State Implementation Plan submissions.

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2014-07-01

... compliance; (5) Legal authority requiring or allowing implementation of the I/M program and providing either broad or specific authority to perform all required elements of the program; (6) Legal authority for I/M... without an I/M program is approved by EPA); (7) Implementing regulations, interagency agreements, and...

40 CFR 51.372 - State Implementation Plan submissions.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

2013-07-01

... compliance; (5) Legal authority requiring or allowing implementation of the I/M program and providing either broad or specific authority to perform all required elements of the program; (6) Legal authority for I/M... without an I/M program is approved by EPA); (7) Implementing regulations, interagency agreements, and...

THE NEVADA GEOSPATIAL DATA BROWSER: A SPATIAL DATA ARCHIVE FOR THE SOUTHWEST REGIONAL GAP ANALYSIS PROJECT

EPA Science Inventory

The Southwest Regional Gap Analysis project (SWReGAP) is a 5-state (Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, and Utah) inter-agency program that maps the distribution of plant communities and selected animal species and compares these distributions with land stewardship to identify...

Youth Homelessness and Juvenile Justice. Best Practices in Interagency Collaboration Brief Series

ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

National Center for Homeless Education at SERVE, 2011

2011-01-01

This brief is designed for juvenile justice agencies and professionals (including law enforcement officers, juvenile probation officers, attorneys, juvenile court personnel, and detention facility staff), as well as State Coordinators for Homeless Education and local homeless education liaisons. It provides basic information to help educators…

48 CFR 17.503 - Determinations and findings requirements.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-10-01

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75 FR 6819 - Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement; Limitation on Procurements on Behalf of DoD

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2010-02-11

... follows: 1. Compliance With Financial Management Regulations Comment: Public Law 110-181 states that the...] RIN 0750-AG24 Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement; Limitation on Procurements on Behalf... Acquisition Regulation Supplement (DFARS) to address statutory provisions relating to interagency procurements...

Increasing Effectiveness of Interagency Provincial Reconstruction Teams

DTIC Science & Technology

2007-03-29

harmony.30 During this phase the team’s ability to perform is developed and enhance by a sense of what the noted psychologist Albert Bandura of...perform…specific task[s].”31 Bandura goes on to state that these “efficacy beliefs contribute significantly to the level of motivation and performance

34 CFR 303.603 - Meetings.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-07-01

... 34 Education 2 2010-07-01 2010-07-01 false Meetings. 303.603 Section 303.603 Education Regulations... DISABILITIES State Interagency Coordinating Council General § 303.603 Meetings. (a) The Council shall meet at least quarterly and in such places as it deems necessary. (b) The meetings must— (1) Be publicly...

Finding Common Ground: A Call for Collaboration. Promoting State Interagency Efforts To Reduce the Impact of Perinatal Alcohol and Other Drug Use on Families.

ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

Jones, Virginia H.; Hutchins, Ellen

This manual assists state agencies in developing public policy and programs to address prevention and treatment for the abuse of alcohol and other drugs by women during pregnancy. It stresses the importance of collaborative action among the many agencies involved. The first chapter is a specific call for collaboration, noting several federal…

Regional lists of plant species that occur in wetlands: data base user's guide

USGS Publications Warehouse

Reed, Porter B.; Auble, Gregor T.; Muhlenbruck, Jill E.; Manci, Karen M.

1989-01-01

The Data Base List of Plant Species that Occur in Wetlands (LIST) currently contains records for 6,728 plant species. Each record provides information on nomenclature, plant characteristics and lifeforms, distribution, and frequency of occurrence in wetlands. The List of Plant Species that Occur in Wetlands, developed to supplement the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's Classification of Wetlands and Deepwater Habitats of the United States (Cowardin et al. 1979), underwent an intensive review by field botanists across the country. This review was coordinated by national and regional interagency wetland plant list review panels composed of representatives from the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service, U. S. Army Corps of Engineers, Soil Conservation Service, and the Environmental Protection Agency. Initial and updated versions of the Data Base List of Plant Species that Occur in Wetlands are available in hardcopy (Reed 1986, 1988). Regional lists are available as U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Biological Report Series 88(26.126.13). State lists are available as National Ecology Research Center Report Series 88(18.01-18.50). The computerized data base tracks and documents indicator assignments made by regional interagency review panels and facilitates generation of reports. This user's guide describes the format and contents of the LIST Data Base. The Data Base is available on 5-1/4" floppy disks in ASCII format for use with a data base management system on an IBM PC/XT/AT compatible computer. The LIST Data Base was developed using the QUICKTEXT Data Base Management System (Osborn and Strong 1984). Use of QUICKTEXT with the LIST Data Base is strongly recommended. Instructions for loading LIST into QUICKTEXT are included in this user's guide. Other data base management systems capable of handling variable length fields can be used by individuals familiar with these software packages. LIST distribution disks are available for 13 regions (Table 1). QUICKTEXT (course QT100--Data Base Management Techniques) and regional subsets of the LIST Data Base (distributed as self-tutorial courses, Table 1) are available through the Office of Conference Services, Colorado State University.

Associations between neighborhood characteristics and sexual risk behaviors among HIV-infected and HIV-uninfected women in the southern United States.

PubMed

Haley, Danielle F; Haardörfer, Regine; Kramer, Michael R; Adimora, Adaora A; Wingood, Gina M; Goswami, Neela D; Rubtsova, Anna; Ludema, Christina; Hickson, DeMarc A; Ramirez, Catalina; Ross, Zev; Bolivar, Hector; Cooper, Hannah L F

2017-04-01

Neighborhood characteristics shape sexual risk in HIV-uninfected adults in the United States (US). We assess relationships between census tract characteristics and sexual risk behaviors in a predominantly HIV-infected cohort of women living in the Southern US. This cross-sectional multilevel analysis included data from 737 HIV-infected and HIV-uninfected women enrolled in the Women's Interagency HIV Study. Administrative data captured characteristics of census tracts where women lived; participant-level data were gathered via survey. We used principal components analysis to condense tract-level variables into components: social disorder (e.g., violent crime rate), and social disadvantage (e.g., alcohol outlet density). We used hierarchical generalized linear models to assess relationships between tract-level characteristics and condomless vaginal intercourse, anal intercourse, and condomless anal intercourse. Greater social disorder was associated with less anal intercourse (OR = 0.63, 95% CI = 0.43-0.94) and condomless anal intercourse (OR = 0.49, 95% CI = 0.30-0.80), regardless of HIV status. There were no statistically significant additive or multiplicative interactions between tract characteristics and HIV status. Neighborhood characteristics are associated with sexual risk behaviors among women living in the Southern US, these relationships do not vary by HIV status. Future studies should establish temporality and explore the causal pathways through which neighborhoods influence sexual risk. Copyright © 2017 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

Associations between Neighborhood Characteristics and Sexual Risk Behaviors among HIV-infected and HIV-uninfected Women in the Southern United States

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Haley, Danielle F.; Haardörfer, Regine; Kramer, Michael R.; Adimora, Adaora A.; Wingood, Gina M.; Goswami, Neela D.; Rubtsova, Anna; Ludema, Christina; Hickson, DeMarc A.; Ramirez, Catalina; Ross, Zev; Bolivar, Hector; Cooper, Hannah LF

2017-01-01

Introduction Neighborhood characteristics shape sexual risk in HIV-uninfected adults in the United States (US). We assess relationships between census tract characteristics and sexual risk behaviors in a predominantly HIV-infected cohort of women living in the Southern US. Methods This cross-sectional multilevel analysis included data from 737 HIV-infected and HIV-uninfected women enrolled in the Women’s Interagency HIV Study. Administrative data captured characteristics of census tracts where women lived; participant-level data were gathered via survey. We used principal components analysis to condense tract-level variables into components: social disorder (e.g., violent crime rate) and social disadvantage (e.g., alcohol outlet density). We used hierarchical generalized linear models to assess relationships between tract-level characteristics and condomless vaginal intercourse (CVI), anal intercourse (AI), and condomless anal intercourse (CAI). Results Greater social disorder was associated with less AI (OR=0.63, 95% CI=0.43, 0.94) and CAI (OR=0.49, 95% CI=0.30, 0.80), regardless of HIV status. There were no statistically significant additive or multiplicative interactions between tract characteristics and HIV status. Conclusion Neighborhood characteristics are associated with sexual risk behaviors among women living in the Southern US, these relationships do not vary by HIV status. Future studies should establish temporality and explore the causal pathways through which neighborhoods influence sexual risk. PMID:28476327

U.S. EPA response to the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant accident.

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Tupin, Edward A; Boyd, Michael A; Mosser, Jennifer E; Wieder, Jessica S

2012-05-01

During the spring of 2011, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) used its national radiation monitoring and sampling system, RadNet, to detect, identify, and inform the public about radioactive material in the United States resulting from Japan's Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant release. The RadNet system monitors ambient air, drinking water, precipitation, and pasteurized milk for radionuclides. To supplement its existing stationary (fixed) continuous air monitoring system, EPA deployed additional air monitors to Saipan, Guam, and locations in the western United States. The Agency also accelerated the regular quarterly sampling of milk and drinking water and collected an additional round of samples. For two months, staff located at EPA's Headquarters Emergency Operations Center, west coast regional offices, and National Air and Radiation Environmental Lab worked seven days a week to handle the increased radiochemical sample analysis from air filters, precipitation, drinking water, and milk; provide interagency scientific input; and answer press and public inquiries. EPA's data was consistent with what was expected from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant release. The levels of radioactivity were so low that the readings from the near-real-time RadNet air monitors stayed within normal background ranges. Detailed sample analyses were needed to identify the radionuclides associated with the release. Starting at the end of April and continuing through May 2011, levels of radioactive material decreased as expected.

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Schools and the Community: A Necessary Partnership: A Guide to Interagency Collaboration.

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Alberta Dept. of Education, Edmonton. Education Response Centre.

The problems facing students and families in Alberta, Canada, have been recognized as community problems that require community solutions. Interagency collaboration has become a necessity indicative of the changing times and the global focus on integration rather than isolation. Interagency collaboration is an arrangement in which agencies work…

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Interagency Rare Plant Team inventory results - 1998 through 2003

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Deborah J. Clark; David A. Tait

2007-01-01

Fishlake National Forest, Dixie National Forest, Bureau of Land Management - Richfield Field Office, and Capitol Reef National Park became partners in an Interagency Agreement to inventory and monitor threatened, endangered, and sensitive plant species shared by these agencies. From 1998 to 2003, the Interagency Rare Plant Team surveyed and recorded over 650 new...

Closing the Inter-Agency Gap: Role of the Marine Infantry Battalion on the Future Battlefield

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2010-04-26

Master of Military Studies Research Paper September 2009- April2010 4. TITLE AND SUBTITLE Sa. CONTRACT NUMBER Closing the Inter-Agency Gap : Role of the...battlalion the future battlefield will be to close the inter-agency gap by utilizing a comprehensive government approach to locate, close with, and...

Children, Families and Interagency Work: Experiences of Partnership Work in Primary Education Settings

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Milbourne, Linda

2005-01-01

Despite UK government initiatives intended to address social exclusion, those with poor access to social and economic resources continue to experience unresponsive services. In these circumstances, small inter-agency projects may offer accessible alternatives. This article explores the implementation of inter-agency work at a local level, focusing…

Putting the Pieces Together: Making Interagency Collaboration Work. Preschool Interagency Council: A Model.

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Morgan, Jan

The manual suggests steps, procedures, best practices, and key concepts to create and maintain successful interagency collaboration in the delivery of services to preschool handicapped children. Considered are the concept of collaboration, the rationale for its development, and a means of assessing a community to determine the needs and potential…

The U.S. National Plan for Civil Earth Observations

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Stryker, T.; Clavin, C.; Gallo, J.

2014-12-01

Globally, the United Sates Government is one of the largest providers of environmental and Earth-system data. As the nation's Earth observation capacity has grown, so have the complexity and challenges associated with managing Earth observation systems and related data holdings. In July 2014, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy released the first-ever National Plan for Civil Earth Observations to address these challenges. The Plan provides a portfolio management-based framework for maximizing the value of Federal Earth observations. The Plan identifies Federal priorities for Earth observations and improved management of their data. Through routine assessments, expanding data management efforts, interagency planning, and international collaboration, OSTP and its partner agencies will seek ensure the continued provision of and access to key Earth observation data, which support a broad range of public services and research programs. The presenters will provide a detailed review of the components of the National Plan, its impacts across the Federal agencies involved in Earth observations, and associated efforts to enable interagency coordination.

Supporting the President's Arms Control and Nonproliferation Agenda: Transparency and Verification for Nuclear Arms Reductions

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Doyle, James E; Meek, Elizabeth

2009-01-01

The President's arms control and nonproliferation agenda is still evolving and the details of initiatives supporting it remain undefined. This means that DOE, NNSA, NA-20, NA-24 and the national laboratories can help define the agenda, and the policies and the initiatives to support it. This will require effective internal and interagency coordination. The arms control and nonproliferation agenda is broad and includes the path-breaking goal of creating conditions for the elimination of nuclear weapons. Responsibility for various elements of the agenda will be widely scattered across the interagency. Therefore an interagency mapping exercise should be performed to identify the keymore » points of engagement within NNSA and other agencies for creating effective policy coordination mechanisms. These can include informal networks, working groups, coordinating committees, interagency task forces, etc. It will be important for NA-20 and NA-24 to get a seat at the table and a functional role in many of these coordinating bodies. The arms control and nonproliferation agenda comprises both mature and developing policy initiatives. The more mature elements such as CTBT ratification and a follow-on strategic nuclear arms treaty with Russia have defined milestones. However, recent press reports indicate that even the START follow-on strategic arms pact that is planned to be complete by the end of 2009 may take significantly longer and be more expansive in scope. The Russians called for proposals to count non-deployed as well as deployed warheads. Other elements of the agenda such as FMCT, future bilateral nuclear arms reductions following a START follow-on treaty, nuclear posture changes, preparations for an international nuclear security summit, strengthened international safeguards and multilateral verification are in much earlier stages of development. For this reason any survey of arms control capabilities within the USG should be structured to address potential needs across the near-term (1-4) years and longer-term (5-10) years planning horizons. Some final observations include acknowledging the enduring nature of several key objectives on the Obama Administration's arms control and nonproliferation agenda. The CTBT, FMCT, bilateral nuclear arms reductions and strengthening the NPT have been sought by successive U.S. Administrations for nearly thirty years. Efforts towards negotiated arms control, although de-emphasized by the G.W. Bush Administration, have remained a pillar of U.S. national security strategy for decades and are likely to be of enduring if not increasing importance for decades to come. Therefore revitalization and expansion of USG capabilities in this area can be a positive legacy no matter what near-term arms control goals are achieved over the next four years. This is why it is important to reconstruct integrated bureaucratic, legislative, budgetary and diplomatic strategies to sustain the arms control and nonproliferation agenda. In this endeavor some past lessons must be taken to heart to avoid bureaucratic overkill and keep interagency policy-making and implementation structures lean and effective. On the Technical side a serious, sustained multilateral program to develop, down select and performance test nuclear weapons dismantlement verification technologies and procedures should be immediately initiated. In order to make this happen the United States and Russia should join with the UK and other interested states in creating a sustained, full-scale research and development program for verification at their respective nuc1ear weapons and defense establishments. The goals include development of effective technologies and procedures for: (1) Attribute measurement systems to certify nuclear warheads and military fissile materials; (2) Chain-of-custody methods to track items after they are authenticated and enter accountability; (3) Transportation monitoring; (4) Storage monitoring; (5) Fissile materials conversion verification. The remainder of this paper focuses on transparency and verification for nuclear arms and fissile material reductions.« less

A Model of Federal Interagency Cooperation: The National Interagency Confederation for Biological Research

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Wright, Mary; Clifford Lane, H.; Schoomaker, Eric B.

2014-01-01

The terrorist attacks of September 11 and the anthrax mailings a month later prompted a sweeping response by the federal government to improve the preparedness of the US to meet the potential threat posed by a terrorist using a biological agent. This response transcended traditional interagency boundaries, creating new opportunities while producing unique fiscal and leadership challenges. The National Interagency Confederation for Biological Research has made significant progress over the past 12 years because of its ability to adapt to the need for interagency cooperation and overcome many of these challenges. As construction of the National Interagency Biodefense Campus at Fort Detrick nears completion, the US has the capability to pursue a unique whole-of-government approach to the development of medical measures to counter the threat of bioterrorism. In addition to the high-level support of many in the federal government, the key success factors for this effort have been (1) a critical mass of leaders with the right leadership characteristics, (2) development of a compelling vision and accompanying narrative understood and articulated by all partnering organizations, and (3) recognition of the need for a partnership office to do the important communication and collaboration work in the organization to synchronize the information available to all the partners. The major barrier to interagency cooperative efforts of this kind is the inability to comingle funds from different appropriations. PMID:24819736

A model of federal interagency cooperation: the National Interagency Confederation for Biological Research.

PubMed

Gilman, James K; Wright, Mary; Clifford Lane, H; Schoomaker, Eric B

2014-01-01

The terrorist attacks of September 11 and the anthrax mailings a month later prompted a sweeping response by the federal government to improve the preparedness of the US to meet the potential threat posed by a terrorist using a biological agent. This response transcended traditional interagency boundaries, creating new opportunities while producing unique fiscal and leadership challenges. The National Interagency Confederation for Biological Research has made significant progress over the past 12 years because of its ability to adapt to the need for interagency cooperation and overcome many of these challenges. As construction of the National Interagency Biodefense Campus at Fort Detrick nears completion, the US has the capability to pursue a unique whole-of-government approach to the development of medical measures to counter the threat of bioterrorism. In addition to the high-level support of many in the federal government, the key success factors for this effort have been (1) a critical mass of leaders with the right leadership characteristics, (2) development of a compelling vision and accompanying narrative understood and articulated by all partnering organizations, and (3) recognition of the need for a partnership office to do the important communication and collaboration work in the organization to synchronize the information available to all the partners. The major barrier to interagency cooperative efforts of this kind is the inability to comingle funds from different appropriations.

78 FR 76889 - Proposed Addendum to the Interagency Policy Statement on Income Tax Allocation in a Holding...

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Report on Activities and Programs for Countering Proliferation and NBC Terrorism. Volume 1, Executive Summary, Addendum to 2011 Report

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2013-06-01

Executive Branch report on research , development, and acquisition (RDA) programs to Combat Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD). Other interagency committees...characterize, secure, disable , and/or destroy a state or non-state actor’s WMD programs and related capabilities in hostile or uncertain environments. Threat...special operations, and security operations to defend against conventionally and unconventionally delivered WMD. WMD Consequence Management. Actions

Denver Radium Site -- Operable Unit X closeout report for the US Environmental Protection Agency

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Not Available

1992-03-01

The Denver Radium Site consists of properties in the Denver area having radioactive contamination left from radium processing in the early 1900s. The properties are divided into 11 groups or operable units'' to facilitate remedial action management of the Site. Under the provisions of the Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act (SARA) of 1986, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is authorized to respond to a release of a hazardous substance or to a substantial threat of such a release into the environment. EPA or the state conducts a site inspection and uses the Hazard Ranking System to determine placement onmore » the EPA National Priorities List (NPL). In 1983, EPA placed the Denver Radium Site on the NPL, making it eligible for cleanup under the EPA Superfund Program. Through a series of interagency agreements,EPA has enlisted the support of the US Department of Energy Grand junction Projects Office and Chem-Nuclear Geotech, Inc., for remedial design and remedial action activities at the Denver Radium Superfund Site.The US Bureau of Reclamation (USBR) is managing the waste transportation and disposal contract.« less

Denver Radium Site -- Operable Unit X closeout report for the US Environmental Protection Agency

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Not Available

1992-03-01

The Denver Radium Site consists of properties in the Denver area having radioactive contamination left from radium processing in the early 1900s. The properties are divided into 11 groups or ``operable units`` to facilitate remedial action management of the Site. Under the provisions of the Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act (SARA) of 1986, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is authorized to respond to a release of a hazardous substance or to a substantial threat of such a release into the environment. EPA or the state conducts a site inspection and uses the Hazard Ranking System to determine placement onmore » the EPA National Priorities List (NPL). In 1983, EPA placed the Denver Radium Site on the NPL, making it eligible for cleanup under the EPA Superfund Program. Through a series of interagency agreements,EPA has enlisted the support of the US Department of Energy Grand junction Projects Office and Chem-Nuclear Geotech, Inc., for remedial design and remedial action activities at the Denver Radium Superfund Site.The US Bureau of Reclamation (USBR) is managing the waste transportation and disposal contract.« less

Report of the Interagency biological methods workshop

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Gurtz, Martin E.; Muir, Thomas A.

1994-01-01

The U.S. Geological Survey hosted the Interagency Biological Methods Workshop in Reston, Virginia, during June 22-23, 1993. The purposes of the workshop were to (1) promote better communication among Federal agencies that are using or developing biological methods in water-quality assessment programs for streams and rivers, and (2) facilitate the sharing of data and interagency collaboration. The workshop was attended by 45 biologists representing numerous Federal agencies and programs, and a few regional and State programs that were selected to provide additional perspectives. The focus of the workshop was community assessment methods for fish, invertebrates, and algae; physical habitat characterization; and chemical analyses of biological tissues. Charts comparing program objectives, design features, and sampling methods were compiled from materials that were provided by participating agencies prior to the workshop and formed the basis for small workgroup discussions. Participants noted that differences in methods among programs were often necessitated by differences in program objectives. However, participants agreed that where programs have identified similar data needs, the use of common methods is beneficial. Opportunities discussed for improving data compatibility and information sharing included (1) modifying existing methods, (2) adding parameters, (3) improving access to data through shared databases (potentially with common database structures), and (4) future collaborative efforts that range from research on selected protocol questions to followup meetings and continued discussions.

78 FR 67327 - Approval and Promulgation of Air Quality Implementation Plans; State of Colorado; Revised...

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Medicaid and Special Education: Coordination of Services for Children with Disabilities Is Evolving.

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General Accounting Office, Washington, DC.

This report discusses the results of an investigation into the coordination between the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) and the Medicaid program. Interagency agreements and other documentation were obtained and analyzed from 12 state directors of special education, coordination mechanisms reported by key federal agencies were…

Villaflores: Municipal forest fire management model

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Pedro Martínez Muñoz; Carlos Alberto Velázquez Sanabria

2013-01-01

As provided for in the General Law on Sustainable Forestry Development, the Municipality of Villaflores has worked on a continuous basis since 2002 to reduce the damage caused by forest fires as part of its working agenda, in conjunction with Federal and State agencies and NGOs. The work plan has the following phases: a) Inter-agency coordination:...

ACHP | News | ACHP and Department of Energy Streamline Section 106 Process

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Energy The ACHP and DOE are providing a prototype Programmatic Agreement for dealing with historic properties as part of Recovery Act projects. Press Release (PDF) Protoype Programmatic Agreement (PDF) When DOE approves the use of an existing state interagency agreement for Section 106 compliance purposes in

Summaries of the State-of-the-Art Position Papers on Day Care.

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Texas State Dept. of Public Welfare, Austin.

This review consists of summaries of 20 position papers presenting varying viewpoints on aspects of the Federal Interagency Day Care Requirements (FIDCR). Among the authors represented are Gwen Morgan, Edward Zigler, Greta Fein, Henry Ricciuti, Urie Bronfenbrenner, Jerome Kagan and Elizabeth Prescott. Seven of the position papers deal with legal…

Medically Fragile Children: Report from State Committee on Medically Fragile Child Referent Group.

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Michigan State Dept. of Education, Lansing. Special Education Services.

This report is the product of a committee charged to define "medically fragile," explore the array of educational services available and/or needed for children in Michigan considered medically fragile, identify current information and gaps in the information, and identify areas of interagency collaboration. The report discusses critical…

A Tamarisk Habitat Suitability Map for the Continental US

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Morisette, Jeffrey T.; Jernevich, Catherine S.; Ullah, Asad; Cai, Weijie; Pedelty, Jeffrey A.; Gentle, Jim; Stohlgren, Thomas J.; Schnase, John L.

2005-01-01

This paper presents a national-scale map of habitat suitability for a high-priority invasive species, Tamarisk (Tamarisk spp., salt cedar). We successfully integrate satellite data and tens of thousands of field sampling points through logistic regression modeling to create a habitat suitability map that is 90% accurate. This interagency effort uses field data collected and coordinated through the US Geological Survey and nation-wide environmental data layers derived from NASA s MODerate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS). We demonstrate the utilization of the map by ranking the lower 48 US states (and the District of Columbia) based upon their absolute, as well as proportional, areas of highly likely and moderately likely habitat for Tamarisk. The interagency effort and modeling approach presented here could be applied to map other harmful species in the US and globally.

NOAA Inter-Agency Networking for Open Data and Research Results

NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

de la Beaujardiere, J.

2015-12-01

The US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) generates tens of terabytes of data per day from hundreds of sensors on satellites, radars, aircraft, ships, and buoys, and from numerical models. With rare exceptions, all of these data should be made publicly accessible in a usable fashion. NOAA has long been both an advocate and a practitioner of open data, and has observations going back 150 years in its archives. The NOAA data management community therefore welcomed the White House mandates on Open Data and Open Research, and has striven to improve standardization internally and in collaboration with other organizations. This paper will summarize the state of inter-agency networking by NOAA, and will discuss future perspectives, in particular the need to achieve a state where the appropriate technology choices for particular classes of geospatial data are obvious and beyond discussion, and where data sharing and metadata creation are built into agency workflows for project planning, approval, and execution, so that instead of writing and enforcing mandates we can focus on actually using data from multiple sources to improve understanding and decision-making.

Interprofessional and Interagency Training for Working with Young People with Harmful Sexual Behaviours: An Evaluation of Outcomes

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Hackett, Simon; Carpenter, John; Patsios, Demi; Szilassy, Eszter

2013-01-01

This study evaluates the outcomes of short interagency training courses provided by six Local Safeguarding Children Boards in England. The aim was to develop practical skills in recognising and responding to the needs of children with harmful sexual behaviour in an interagency context. The courses all employed interactive learning and teaching…

Redefining HHS International Response: Challenges and Recommendations for Interagency Partnerships

DTIC Science & Technology

2009-04-01

Approach and Enhance Interagency Planning, 1. 22 David Hinson , U.S. Military Interaction with Humanitarian Assistance Organizations During Small-Scale...Defense University Press, 1996); http://www.dodccrp.org/files/Hayes_Interagency.pdf (accessed March 2, 2009. 31 Hinson , Military Interaction with...Humanitarian Assistance Organizations, 29. 32 Benton and Ware, “Haiti: A Case Study”. 33 Hinson , Military Interaction with Humanitarian Assistance

Applying Goldwater-Nichols Reforms to Foster Interagency Cooperation Between Public Safety Agencies in New York City

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2007-03-01

release; distribution is unlimited APPLYING GOLDWATER-NICHOLS REFORMS TO FOSTER INTERAGENCY COOPERATION BETWEEN PUBLIC SAFTEY AGENCIES IN NEW YORK...NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY, CALIFORNIA THESIS Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited APPLYING GOLDWATER... Applying Goldwater-Nichols Reforms to Foster Interagency Cooperation Between Public Safety Agencies in New York City 6. AUTHOR(S) Joseph P

Keeping it wild 2: An updated interagency strategy to monitor trends in wilderness character across the National Wilderness Preservation System

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Peter Landres; Chris Barns; Steve Boutcher; Tim Devine; Peter Dratch; Adrienne Lindholm; Linda Merigliano; Nancy Roeper; Emily Simpson

2015-01-01

Keeping It Wild 2 is an interagency strategy to monitor trends in selected attributes of wilderness character based on lessons learned from 15 years of developing and implementing wilderness character monitoring across the National Wilderness Preservation System. This document updates and replaces Keeping It Wild: An Interagency Strategy for Monitoring Wilderness...

Analysis of aerosol composition data for western United States wildfires between 2005 and 2015: Dust emissions, chloride depletion, and most enhanced aerosol constituents.

PubMed

Schlosser, Joseph S; Braun, Rachel A; Bradley, Trevor; Dadashazar, Hossein; MacDonald, Alexander B; Aldhaif, Abdulmonam A; Aghdam, Mojtaba Azadi; Mardi, Ali Hossein; Xian, Peng; Sorooshian, Armin

2017-08-27

This study examines major wildfires in the western United States between 2005 and 2015 to determine which species exhibit the highest percent change in mass concentration on day of peak fire influence relative to preceding nonfire days. Forty-one fires were examined using the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Interagency Monitoring of Protected Visual Environments (IMPROVE) data set. Organic carbon (OC) and elemental carbon (EC) constituents exhibited the highest percent change increase. The sharpest enhancements were for the volatile (OC1) and semivolatile (OC2) OC fractions, suggestive of secondary organic aerosol formation during plume transport. Of the noncarbonaceous constituents, Cl, P, K, NO 3 - , and Zn levels exhibited the highest percent change. Dust was significantly enhanced in wildfire plumes, based on significant enhancements in fine soil components (i.e., Si, Ca, Al, Fe, and Ti) and PM coarse (i.e., PM 10 -PM 2.5 ). A case study emphasized how transport of wildfire plumes significantly impacted downwind states, with higher levels of fine soil and PM coarse at the downwind state (Arizona) as compared to the source of the fires (California). A global model (Navy Aerosol Analysis and Prediction System, NAAPS) did not capture the dust influence over California or Arizona during this case event because it is not designed to resolve dust dynamics in fires, which motivates improved treatment of such processes. Significant chloride depletion was observed on the peak EC day for almost a half of the fires examined. Size-resolved measurements during two specific fires at a coastal California site revealed significant chloride reductions for particle aerodynamic diameters between 1 and 10 μm.

Analysis of aerosol composition data for western United States wildfires between 2005 and 2015: Dust emissions, chloride depletion, and most enhanced aerosol constituents

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Schlosser, Joseph S.; Braun, Rachel A.; Bradley, Trevor; Dadashazar, Hossein; MacDonald, Alexander B.; Aldhaif, Abdulmonam A.; Aghdam, Mojtaba Azadi; Mardi, Ali Hossein; Xian, Peng; Sorooshian, Armin

2017-08-01

This study examines major wildfires in the western United States between 2005 and 2015 to determine which species exhibit the highest percent change in mass concentration on day of peak fire influence relative to preceding nonfire days. Forty-one fires were examined using the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Interagency Monitoring of Protected Visual Environments (IMPROVE) data set. Organic carbon (OC) and elemental carbon (EC) constituents exhibited the highest percent change increase. The sharpest enhancements were for the volatile (OC1) and semivolatile (OC2) OC fractions, suggestive of secondary organic aerosol formation during plume transport. Of the noncarbonaceous constituents, Cl, P, K, NO3-, and Zn levels exhibited the highest percent change. Dust was significantly enhanced in wildfire plumes, based on significant enhancements in fine soil components (i.e., Si, Ca, Al, Fe, and Ti) and PMcoarse (i.e., PM10-PM2.5). A case study emphasized how transport of wildfire plumes significantly impacted downwind states, with higher levels of fine soil and PMcoarse at the downwind state (Arizona) as compared to the source of the fires (California). A global model (Navy Aerosol Analysis and Prediction System, NAAPS) did not capture the dust influence over California or Arizona during this case event because it is not designed to resolve dust dynamics in fires, which motivates improved treatment of such processes. Significant chloride depletion was observed on the peak EC day for almost a half of the fires examined. Size-resolved measurements during two specific fires at a coastal California site revealed significant chloride reductions for particle aerodynamic diameters between 1 and 10 μm.

Analysis of aerosol composition data for western United States wildfires between 2005 and 2015: Dust emissions, chloride depletion, and most enhanced aerosol constituents

PubMed Central

Schlosser, Joseph S.; Braun, Rachel A.; Bradley, Trevor; Dadashazar, Hossein; MacDonald, Alexander B.; Aldhaif, Abdulmonam A.; Aghdam, Mojtaba Azadi; Mardi, Ali Hossein; Xian, Peng; Sorooshian, Armin

2017-01-01

This study examines major wildfires in the western United States between 2005 and 2015 to determine which species exhibit the highest percent change in mass concentration on day of peak fire influence relative to preceding nonfire days. Forty-one fires were examined using the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Interagency Monitoring of Protected Visual Environments (IMPROVE) data set. Organic carbon (OC) and elemental carbon (EC) constituents exhibited the highest percent change increase. The sharpest enhancements were for the volatile (OC1) and semivolatile (OC2) OC fractions, suggestive of secondary organic aerosol formation during plume transport. Of the noncarbonaceous constituents, Cl, P, K, NO3−, and Zn levels exhibited the highest percent change. Dust was significantly enhanced in wildfire plumes, based on significant enhancements in fine soil components (i.e., Si, Ca, Al, Fe, and Ti) and PMcoarse (i.e., PM10–PM2.5). A case study emphasized how transport of wildfire plumes significantly impacted downwind states, with higher levels of fine soil and PMcoarse at the downwind state (Arizona) as compared to the source of the fires (California). A global model (Navy Aerosol Analysis and Prediction System, NAAPS) did not capture the dust influence over California or Arizona during this case event because it is not designed to resolve dust dynamics in fires, which motivates improved treatment of such processes. Significant chloride depletion was observed on the peak EC day for almost a half of the fires examined. Size-resolved measurements during two specific fires at a coastal California site revealed significant chloride reductions for particle aerodynamic diameters between 1 and 10 μm. PMID:28955601

Interagency collaboration in the Rocky Mountains and Great Plains: Federal-university climate service networks for producing actionable information for climate change adaptation

NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

Ray, A. J.; McNie, E.; Averyt, K.; Morisette, J. T.; Derner, J. D.; Ojima, D. S.; Dilling, L.; Barsugli, J. J.

2014-12-01

Several federal agencies in north-central United States are each working to develop and disseminate useful climate information to enhance resilience to climate change. This talk will discuss how the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) the North Central Climate Science Center, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Western Water Assessment RISA, and the U.S. Department of Agriculture Climate Hub, are building and managing a collaborative research and climate-service network in the Rocky Mountains and Great Plains. This presentation will describe the evolution of the interagency collaboration and the partnership with universities to build a climate service network. Such collaboration takes time and intention and must include the right people and organizations to effectively bridge the gap between use-inspired research and application. In particular, we will discuss a focus on the Upper Missouri Basin, developing research to meet needs in a basin that has had relatively less attention on risks of climate change and adaptation to those risks. Each organization has its own mission, stakeholders, and priorities, but there are many commonalities and potential synergies. Together, these organizations, and their agency scientists and university partners, are fostering cross-agency collaboration at the regional scale to optimize efficient allocation of resources while simultaneously enabling information to be generated at a scale that is relevant to decision makers. By each organization knowing the others needs and priorities, there are opportunities to craft research agendas and strategies for providing services that take advantage of the strengths and skills of the different organizations. University partners are key components of each organization, and of the collaboration, who bring in expertise beyond that in the agencies, in particular connections to social scientists, extension services.

Interagency Task Forces: The Right Tools for the Job

DTIC Science & Technology

2011-01-01

shortcomings. This analysis discusses four organizational reform models and recommends the interagency task force ( IATF ) as the preferred structure...model.64 Still others recommend creating and deploying ad hoc IATFs for crisis operations. These interagency task forces would be task- organized to...forces assigned for planning, exercises, and mission execution.65 A 2005 article in Policy Review recommended developing IATFs as needed for specific

The Adequacy of Current Interagency Doctrine

DTIC Science & Technology

2007-06-15

proposed new initiatives, the CSIS model calls for the establishment of an Interagency Task Force ( IATF ) to achieve unity of effort at the tactical...level, specifically 15 for reconstruction and stability operations. The IATF would assume the lead from the COCOM once major combat operations were...complete in a given area or region. The IATF would be civilian-led, directly control full interagency resources, and have dedicated funding authority

Synchronizing U.S. Government Efforts Toward Collaborative Health Care Policymaking in Iraq

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2010-03-01

Cerami and Boggs, eds., The Interagency and Counterinsurgency Warfare, pp. 25-46; see also Amanda Smith, “Strategic Communication: Interagency Rhetoric...Security Presidential Directive 44, Management of Interagency Efforts, December 7, 2005; see also Douglas C. Lovelace , Jr., “Foreword” in Greg Kaufmann...U.S. ARMY WAR COLLEGE Major General Robert M. Williams Commandant ***** STRATEGIC STUDIES INSTITUTE Director Professor Douglas C. Lovelace , Jr

Keeping it wild: an interagency strategy to monitor trends in wilderness character across the National Wilderness Preservation System

Treesearch

Peter Landres; Chris Barns; John G. Dennis; Tim Devine; Paul Geissler; Curtis S. McCasland; Linda Merigliano; Justin Seastrand; Ralph Swain

2008-01-01

The Interagency Wilderness Character Monitoring Team--representing the Department of the Interior (DOI) Bureau of Land Management, DOI Fish and Wildlife Service, DOI National Park Service, DOI U.S. Geological Survey, and the U.S. Forest Service-offers in this document an interagency strategy to monitor trends in wilderness character across the National Wilderness...

Military Review: The Professional Journal of the U.S. Army, June 2008. Special Edition: Interagency Reader

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2008-06-01

Company for Mechanical Ind. - Trailers , Taji 12. Nassr State Company for Mechanical Ind. - Foundry, Taji 13. Nassr State Company for Mechanical Ind...Initiatives (oTI).44 Prior to military operations in Afghanistan and Iraq, the DG worked primarily in transitional countries that had secure, receptive ...April 2002 Zogby International survey (mentioned in the GAo report) showing that Arabs and muslims had a favorable view of American movies , television

Youth and administrator perspectives on transition in Kentucky's state agency schools.

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Marshall, Amy; Powell, Norman; Pierce, Doris; Nolan, Ronnie; Fehringer, Elaine

2012-01-01

Students, a large percentage with disabilities, are at high risk for poor post-secondary outcomes in state agency education programs. This mixed-methods study describes the understandings of student transitions in state agency education programs from the perspectives of youth and administrators. Results indicated that: transition is more narrowly defined within alternative education programs; key strengths of transition practice are present in nontraditional schools; and the coordination barriers within this fluid inter-agency transition system are most apparent in students' frequent inter-setting transitions between nontraditional and home schools.

Paving the Road to Health Together: Case Studies of Interagency Collaboration

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Posner, Marc

2004-01-01

State health agencies are asked to do a big job. With the advent of an increased focus on bioterrorism preparedness, and the emergence of diseases such as West Nile Virus and SARS, the job is becoming bigger. Yet health agencies still have responsibilities for more traditional concerns, since these problems remain threats to the public. State…

76 FR 71322 - Interagency Ocean Observation Committee, Meeting of the Data Management and Communications...

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2011-11-17

... representing academic, non-profit, private, regional and state sectors who will discuss issues outlined in the..., 2012 between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m., Eastern Daylight Time. ADDRESSES: The meeting will be broadcast via a... about this notice, please contact the U.S. IOOS Program (Charles Alexander, (301) 427-2429, Charles...

The Technology-Related Assistance to Individuals with Disabilities Act: Relevance to Individuals with Learning Disabilities and Their Advocates.

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Bryant, Brian R.; Seay, Penny Crews

1998-01-01

Discusses implications of the Technology-Related Assistance to Individuals with Disabilities Act (1988, 1994) for people with learning disabilities. It discusses the rationale for the act; its provisions and goals; and systems change and advocacy activities of state projects concerning policy analysis, funding, interagency collaboration, consumer…

Russian Weaponization of Information and Influence in the Baltic States

DTIC Science & Technology

2016-12-11

stability while conducting propaganda and disinformation campaigns, thus increasing control over domestic information content and flow. Free ...propaganda and disinformation campaigns, thus increasing control over domestic information content and flow. Free societies in the West must account...citizens are largely free to communicate disinformation that conforms to their biases. Importance of the Study US military planners, interagency

Development of bull trout sampling efficiency models

Treesearch

R. F. Thurow; J. T. Peterson; C. A. Larson; J. W. Guzevich

2004-01-01

This report describes results of research conducted in Washington State in 2002 through Interagency Agreement #134100-2-H001 between the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) and the U.S. Forest Service Rocky Mountain Station (RMRS). This project was a collaborative effort between the USFWS, RMRS, the Washington Department of Fisheries and Wildlife (WDFW), and the U.S...

State Wide Intraeducational and Interagency Approach to Meeting the Vocational Needs of a Wide-Range of Disabled Learners. Final Report.

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California State Univ., San Francisco.

A project was designed to improve employment preparation, development, and opportunity for handicapped learners through preservice training of California personnel who deliver vocational and special education. The project developed training modules to be shared by California universities and disseminated to other schools. This report summarizes…

An Exploratory [Silver] Path to Interagency Reconstruction

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2011-05-31

problem is different, even if there are similarities with previous experiences , so planners use lessons learned from previous experiences at their...Department of State, especially the US Agency for International Development, has extensive development experience , while the Department of Defense...development experience , while the Department of Defense knows combat and security operations. Integration comes in the middle ground, where we

Community College Budget Incentives and Interagency Articulation Improve, But Graduation Rates Still Inflated. OPPAGA Progress Report.

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Florida State Legislature, Tallahassee. Office of Program Policy Analysis and Government Accountability.

In accordance with Florida state law, this progress report informs the Legislature of actions taken by Florida's Community College System in response to a 1999 Office of Program Policy Analysis and Government Accountability (OPPAGA) review. The OPPAGA found that the Legislature and the Division of Community Colleges have implemented several of…

3 CFR 13601 - Executive Order 13601 of February 28, 2012. Establishment of the Interagency Trade Enforcement...

Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

2013-01-01

..., or entities, its officers, employees, or agents, or any other person.Barack ObamaThe White House... States of America, and in order to advance U.S. foreign policy and protect the national and economic... international trade agreements and enforcement of domestic trade laws, it is hereby ordered as follows: Section...

2008 Stability, Security, Transition and Reconstruction Operations Conference

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2008-09-04

Facilitator Power of Public-Private Partnerships • Health Professional Education • Greater Access to Care China Diabetes Education Program Dominican Republic...Argentina Canada Chile Colombia Ecuador Peru Uruguay Interagency, multinational, inter-institutional partnerships State Department Homeland Security...Disaster Preparedness Disaster Response Regional Response Capacity OFDA-LAC / MDROs Regional Security System (RSS) UNCLASSIFIED ECUADOR / KY PERU / WV

Force of Choice: Optimizing Theater Special Operations Commands to Achieve Synchronized Effects

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2012-12-01

GCC Geographic Combatant Command GFM Global Force Management GSN Global SOF Network (aka EGSN) IA Interagency IATF Interagency Task Force...and through African partners.75 SOCOM NCR was chosen because it is a primary outgrowth of the SOCOM Interagency Task Force ( IATF ), and the...result, SOCOM established the IATF and Special Operations Support Teams (SOST). While the IATF remained at SOCOM Headquarters at MacDill AFB, the

7 CFR Exhibit D to Subpart B of... - Fact Sheet-The Federal Interagency Task Force on Food and Shelter for the Homeless

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-01-01

... 7 Agriculture 14 2010-01-01 2009-01-01 true Fact Sheet-The Federal Interagency Task Force on Food... (CONTINUED) PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Management of Property Exhibit D to Subpart B of Part 1955—Fact Sheet—The Federal Interagency Task Force on Food and Shelter for the Homeless Editorial Note: Exhibit D is not...

Broad Scale Monitoring in the US Forest Service: Institutional Challenges and Collaborative Opportunites for Improving Planning and Decision-Making in an Era of Climate Change

NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

Wurtzebach, Z.

2016-12-01

In 2012, the United States Forest Service promulgated new rules to guide Forest planning efforts in accordance with the National Forest Management Act (NFMA). One important component of the 2012 rule is a requirement for Regionally coordinated cross-boundary "broad scale" monitoring strategies that are designed to inform and facilitate Forest-level adaptive management and planning. This presentation will examine institutional challenges and opportunites for developing effective broad scale monitoring strategies identified in 90 interviews with USFS staff and partner organizations, and collaborative workshops held in Colorado, Wyoming, Arizona, and New Mexico. Internal barriers to development include funding and human resource constraints, organizational culture, problematic incentives and accountability structures, data management issues, and administrative barriers to collaboration. However, we also identify several opportunities for leveraging interagency collaboration, facilitating multi-level coordination, generating efficiencies in data collection and analysis, and improving strategies for reporting and communication to Forest level decision-makers and relevant stakeholders.

Monitoring landscape change for LANDFIRE using multi-temporal satellite imagery and ancillary data

USGS Publications Warehouse

Vogelmann, James E.; Kost, Jay R.; Tolk, Brian; Howard, Stephen M.; Short, Karen; Chen, Xuexia; Huang, Chengquan; Pabst, Kari; Rollins, Matthew G.

2011-01-01

LANDFIRE is a large interagency project designed to provide nationwide spatial data for fire management applications. As part of the effort, many 2000 vintage Landsat Thematic Mapper and Enhanced Thematic Mapper plus data sets were used in conjunction with a large volume of field information to generate detailed vegetation type and structure data sets for the entire United States. In order to keep these data sets current and relevant to resource managers, there was strong need to develop an approach for updating these products. We are using three different approaches for these purposes. These include: 1) updating using Landsat-derived historic and current fire burn information derived from the Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity project; 2) incorporating vegetation disturbance information derived from time series Landsat data analysis using the Vegetation Change Tracker; and 3) developing data products that capture subtle intra-state disturbance such as those related to insects and disease using either Landsat or the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS). While no one single approach provides all of the land cover change and update information required, we believe that a combination of all three captures most of the disturbance conditions taking place that have relevance to the fire community.

Delivering Improved Nutrition: Dairy Ingredients in Food Aid Products.

PubMed

Schlossman, Nina

2016-03-01

The United States has a long history of food assistance for humanitarian need. The Food for Peace Act of 1954 established the United States' permanent food assistance program which has fed over 3 billion people in 150 countries worldwide through thousands of partner organizations. In 60 years, the program has evolved and will continue to do so. Recently, the program has gone from a focus on quantity of food shipped to quality food assistance from improved products, programs, and processes to effectively meet the needs of different vulnerable groups. The current debate focuses on the appropriateness of using fortified blended foods to prevent and treat malnutrition during the first 1000 days of life. Dairy ingredients have been at the center of this debate; they were included initially in fortified blended, removed in the 1980s, and now reincorporated into fortified therapeutic and supplemental foods. Improved quality food baskets and effective nutrition programming to prevent and treat malnutrition were developed through multisectoral collaboration between government and nongovernment organizations. The US Agency for International Development has focused on improving nutrition through development programs often tied to health, education, and agriculture. The years since 2008 have been a particularly intense period for improvement. The Food Aid Quality Review was established to update current food aid programming products, program implementation, cost-effectiveness, and interagency processes. Trials are underway to harmonize the areas of multisectoral nutrition programming and gather more evidence on the effects of dairy ingredients in food aid products. © The Author(s) 2016.

Proceedings Interagency Endangered Species Symposium Held in Washington, DC on April 26-28, 1994

DTIC Science & Technology

1994-08-01

Hawaiian forest birds, the Puerto Rican parrot, eastern timber wolf , desert tortoise, and West Indian manatee. In concert with client agencies, NBS is...fishes than any other state. Reclamation’s complex Central Arizona Project, which can provide most of the state’s 2.8 million acre/feet share of Colorado ...conflicts with the needs of bald eagles. Lower Colorado Region One major issue facing the Lower Colorado Region is the long-term operation and Management of

IRIS Toxicological Review of Vanadium Pentoxide ...

EPA Pesticide Factsheets

On September 30, 2011, the draft Toxicological Review of Vanadium Pentoxide and the charge to external peer reviewers were released for external peer review and public comment. The Toxicological Review and charge were reviewed internally by EPA and by other federal agencies and White House Offices before public release. In the new IRIS process (May 2009), introduced by the EPA Administrator, all written comments on IRIS assessments submitted by other federal agencies and White House Offices will be made publicly available. Accordingly, interagency comments and the interagency science consultation draft of the IRIS Toxicological Review of Vanadium Pentoxide and the charge to external peer reviewers are posted on this site. EPA is reassessing its IRIS toxicological review of vanadium pentoxide (CASRN 1314-62-1). This vanadium pentoxide reassessment consists of an oral reference dose (RfD), an inhalation reference concentration (RfC), an inhalation unit risk (IUR) and a cancer weight of evidence descriptor. This is the first assessment developing an RfC or IUR for this compound. This assessment is intended to provide human health data to support agency regulatory decisions.

Key and Essential Elements of a U.S. Government Interagency Plan

DTIC Science & Technology

2008-03-15

Jim Blackburn was assigned a member of USAID to his staff and was perplexed as to why the individual would be sent to his unit. Blackburn’s initial...thought was to find him a place for him to sit and not much else as Blackburn did not know what else to do with him. The situation continued like...that for several weeks. As the two dialogued, Blackburn discovered the USAID member could bring money from the Iraqi government for R/S projects. At

U.S. Navy Capstone Strategies & Concepts (1970-2009) With Context & Insights for the U.S. Navy of 2009 & Beyond

DTIC Science & Technology

2009-02-01

AUTHOR(S) Swartz, Peter, M. 5d. PROJECT NUMBER R0148 5e. TASK NUMBER 4223 5f. WORK UNIT NUMBER 7. PERFORMING ORGANIZATION NAME(S) AND...government inter-agency partners • US industrial base & shipbuilding • Little on USMC • Just distribution list & USMC CV TACAIR bid 104 Project ...Administration: • USN build -up, including MSC fleet • Distrusted commercial shipbuilding subsidies • Ended construction -differential policy • Allowed

48 CFR 1417.502 - General.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-10-01

... shall develop procedures governing the use of interagency acquisitions under the Economy Act that are... CONTRACT TYPES SPECIAL CONTRACTING METHODS Interagency Acquisitions Under the Economy Act 1417.502 General...

A Diagnostic Approach to Building Collaborative Capacity in an Interagency Context

DTIC Science & Technology

2006-09-25

School. She received an EdD at Arizona State University in Business and Education in 1986. She currently teaches strategic communication in the MBA...Provost The Acquisition Chair, Graduate School of Business & Public Policy, Naval Postgraduate School supported the funding of the research...Thomas, Associate Professor Graduate School of Business & Public Policy ________________________________ Dr. Susan Page Hocevar, Associate

An Historical Perspective on Coordinating Education Post-Conflict: Biopolitics, Governing at a Distance, and States of Exception

ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

Sobe, Noah W.

2007-01-01

This article analyzes a 1944 publication entitled "International Relief in Action 1914-1943: Selected Records with Notes" alongside the 2004 standards for education in emergencies that were developed by INEE (the Inter-Agency Network for Education in Emergencies). In doing so, the author aims to reveal how biological life, expectations of…

Higher Education As a Catalyst for the Local Economy: Project Care--Retraining the Unemployed.

ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

Groff, Warren H.

This three-part report describes the development and operation of Project Care III, an interagency effort involving area colleges, unions, and industry, and state agencies in the retraining of 500 tire builders laid off in August 1978, when the Mansfield Tire and Rubber Company (Mansfield, Ohio) was shut down. Part I outlines the historical…

Veterans Affairs Contracting: Improved Oversight Needed for Certain Contractual Arrangements

DTIC Science & Technology

2015-07-01

Federally Funded Research and Development Center HCA Head of Contracting Activity IAA interagency agreement IDIQ indefinite-delivery indefinite...contracts reside in six different VA organizations. Each of these organizations has an individual designated as Head of Contracting Activity ( HCA ), who...properly trained, stating that HCAs shall develop and implement guidance ensuring only qualified individuals with appropriate training are assigned to

Leadership collaboration during health reform: an action learning approach with an interagency group of executives in Tasmania.

PubMed

Harpur, Siobhan

2012-05-01

To use an action learning approach to encourage a group of executive leaders, responsible for the implementation of a state health reform agenda, to consider the leadership required to drive improvement in healthcare services. Based on an assertion that knowledge is co-produced and that deliberative and structured conversation can be a mechanism to drive change, an action learning approach was used to facilitate an interagency group of executive leaders, responsible for the implementation of a state health reform agenda, who were encouraged to consider the leadership required to drive improvement in healthcare services. It was difficult to assert how the group contributed specifically to the implementation of the health reform agenda but individuals gained insights and there was informal resolution of institutional tensions and differences. The method may provide new knowledge to the reform process over time. Getting the participants together was challenging, which may reflect the reality of time-poor executives, or a low commitment to giving time to structured and deliberative informal dialogue. Further work is required to test this thesis and the action learning approach with other parts of healthcare workforce.

US Interagency Regional Foreign Policy Implementation: A Survey of Current Practice and an Analysis of Options for Improvement

DTIC Science & Technology

2014-06-01

Culture 143 Congressional Support and Legislation 144 What If There Is No Appetite for Interagency Reform? 148 Appendix Interagency Reform at the... environmental disasters. Humanitarian and military operations will often depend on access rights in many different countries.”3 As US foreign policy...dination. However, because the JIACG is located in one agency (the DOD) and has no presidential directive or legislative sanction, other agencies are

Intersectoral interagency partnerships to promote financial capability in older people.

PubMed

Hean, Sarah; Fenge, Lee Ann; Worswick, Louise; Wilkinson, Charlie; Fearnley, Stella

2012-09-01

From the second quarter of 2008, the UK economy entered a period of economic decline. Older people are particularly vulnerable during these times. To promote ways in which older people can be better supported to maintain their financial well-being, this study explored the sources older people utilize to keep themselves financially informed. Interviews with older people (n = 28) showed that older people access trusted sources of information (e.g. healthcare professionals) rather than specialist financial information providers (e.g. financial advisors) which highlighted the need for interagency working between financial services in the private, public and voluntary sectors. An example of how such interagency partnerships might be achieved in practice is presented with some recommendations on directions for future research into interagency working that spans public, private and voluntary sectors.

IRIS Toxicological Review of Benzo[a]pyrene (Interagency ...

EPA Pesticide Factsheets

In January 2017, EPA finalized the IRIS assessment of Benzo[a]pyrene. The Toxicological Review was reviewed internally by EPA and by other federal agencies and White House Offices before public release. Consistent with the May 2009 IRIS assessment development process, all written comments on IRIS assessments submitted by other federal agencies and White House Offices are made publicly available. Accordingly, interagency comments and the interagency science discussion materials provided to other agencies, including interagency review drafts of the IRIS Toxicological Review of Benzo[a]pyrene are posted on this site. EPA is undertaking an update of the Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS) health assessment for benzo[a]pyrene (BaP). The outcome of this project is an updated Toxicological Review and IRIS Summary for BaP that will be entered into the IRIS database.

Interagency Suspension and Debarment Committee

EPA Pesticide Factsheets

The Interagency Suspension and Debarment Committee (ISDC) was created, as an Office of Management and Budget (OMB) committee, by Executive Order 12549 for the purpose of monitoring the implementation of the Order.

WWC Review of the Report "Meeting the Challenge of Combating Chronic Absenteeism: Impact of the NYC Mayor's Interagency Task Force on Chronic Absenteeism and School Attendance and Its Implications for Other Cities." What Works Clearinghouse Single Study Review

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What Works Clearinghouse, 2014

2014-01-01

The 2013 study, "Meeting the Challenge of Combating Chronic Absenteeism: Impact of the NYC Mayor's Interagency Task Force on Chronic Absenteeism and School Attendance and Its Implications for Other Cities", examined the impact of the strategies developed by an interagency task force in New York City to combat chronic absenteeism in…

Sharing and Shaping Usable Science through the Inter-Agency Climate Change Forum

DTIC Science & Technology

2011-10-31

pressure on participants time, this increase is a clear indicator that the forum serves a valuable role, with more persons connecting as they learn about...Science through the Inter-Agency Climate Change Forum William  D.  Goran,  U.S.  Army  Corps  of  Engineers   Sam  Higuchi...COVERED 00-00-2011 to 00-00-2011 4. TITLE AND SUBTITLE Sharing and Shaping Usable Science through the Inter-Agency Climate Change Forum 5a

Regional governance: strategies and disputes in health region management.

PubMed

Santos, Adriano Maia dos; Giovanella, Ligia

2014-08-01

To analyze the regional governance of the health systemin relation to management strategies and disputes. A qualitative study with health managers from 19 municipalities in the health region of Bahia, Northeastern Brazil. Data were drawn from 17 semi-structured interviews of state, regional, and municipal health policymakers and managers; a focus group; observations of the regional interagency committee; and documents in 2012. The political-institutional and the organizational components were analyzed in the light of dialectical hermeneutics. The regional interagency committee is the chief regional governance strategy/component and functions as a strategic tool for strengthening governance. It brings together a diversity of members responsible for decision making in the healthcare territories, who need to negotiate the allocation of funding and the distribution of facilities for common use in the region. The high turnover of health secretaries, their lack of autonomy from the local executive decisions, inadequate technical training to exercise their function, and the influence of party politics on decision making stand as obstacles to the regional interagency committee's permeability to social demands. Funding is insufficient to enable the fulfillment of the officially integrated agreed-upon program or to boost public supply by the system, requiring that public managers procure services from the private market at values higher than the national health service price schedule (Brazilian Unified Health System Table). The study determined that "facilitators" under contract to health departments accelerated access to specialized (diagnostic, therapeutic and/or surgical) services in other municipalities by direct payment to physicians for procedure costs already covered by the Brazilian Unified Health System. The characteristics identified a regionalized system with a conflictive pattern of governance and intermediate institutionalism. The regional interagency committee's managerial routine needs to incorporate more democratic devices for connecting with educational institutions, devices that are more permeable to social demands relating to regional policy making.

Regional governance: strategies and disputes in health region management

PubMed Central

dos Santos, Adriano Maia; Giovanella, Ligia

2014-01-01

OBJECTIVE To analyze the regional governance of the health systemin relation to management strategies and disputes. METHODOLOGICAL PROCEDURES A qualitative study with health managers from 19 municipalities in the health region of Bahia, Northeastern Brazil. Data were drawn from 17 semi-structured interviews of state, regional, and municipal health policymakers and managers; a focus group; observations of the regional interagency committee; and documents in 2012. The political-institutional and the organizational components were analyzed in the light of dialectical hermeneutics. RESULTS The regional interagency committee is the chief regional governance strategy/component and functions as a strategic tool for strengthening governance. It brings together a diversity of members responsible for decision making in the healthcare territories, who need to negotiate the allocation of funding and the distribution of facilities for common use in the region. The high turnover of health secretaries, their lack of autonomy from the local executive decisions, inadequate technical training to exercise their function, and the influence of party politics on decision making stand as obstacles to the regional interagency committee’s permeability to social demands. Funding is insufficient to enable the fulfillment of the officially integrated agreed-upon program or to boost public supply by the system, requiring that public managers procure services from the private market at values higher than the national health service price schedule (Brazilian Unified Health System Table). The study determined that “facilitators” under contract to health departments accelerated access to specialized (diagnostic, therapeutic and/or surgical) services in other municipalities by direct payment to physicians for procedure costs already covered by the Brazilian Unified Health System. CONCLUSIONS The characteristics identified a regionalized system with a conflictive pattern of governance and intermediate institutionalism. The regional interagency committee’s managerial routine needs to incorporate more democratic devices for connecting with educational institutions, devices that are more permeable to social demands relating to regional policy making. PMID:25210821

Interagency partnership to assess and restore a degraded urban riverine wetland: Dyke Marsh Wildlife Preserve, Virginia

USGS Publications Warehouse

Steury, Brent W.; Litwin, Ronald J.; Oberg, Erik T.; Smoot, Joseph P.; Pavich, Milan J.; Sanders, Geoffrey; Santucci, Vincent L.

2014-01-01

The narrow-leaved cattail wetland known as Dyke Marsh formally became a land holding of George Washington Memorial Parkway (GWMP, a unit of the national park system) in 1959, along with a congressional directive to honor a newly-let 30-year commercial sand and gravel dredge-mining lease at the site. Dredging continued until 1974 when Public Law 93-251 called for the National Park Service and the United States Army Corps of Engineers to “implement restoration of the historical and ecological values of Dyke Marsh.” By that time, about 83 acres of the marsh remained, and no congressional funding accompanied the passage of the law to effect any immediate conservation or restoration. Decades of dredge mining had severely altered the surface area of Dyke Marsh, the extent of its tidal creek system, and the shallow river bottom of the Potomac River abutting the marsh. Further, mining destabilized the marsh, causing persistent erosion, shoreline retreat, and tidal channel widening after mining ceased. Erosion has continued unchecked until the present; approximately 50 acres of the original marsh are now estimated to remain. The specific cause of persistent erosion had been unknown prior to this collaborative study but previously was assumed to be due to flooding by the Potomac River.

48 CFR 2917.500 - Scope of subpart.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

2013-10-01

... CONTRACT TYPES SPECIAL CONTRACTING METHODS Interagency Acquisitions Under The Economy Act 2917.500 Scope of... of interagency acquisitions under the Economy Act (31 U.S.C. 1535) as prescribed by FAR 17.5. ...

78 FR 59662 - Annual Public Meeting of the Interagency Steering Committee on Multimedia Environmental Modeling

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2013-09-27

... applications and assessment of site specific, generic, and process-oriented multimedia environmental models as... development and simulation supports interagency interests in risk assessment, uncertainty analyses, management...

Federal Interagency Committee on Indoor Air Quality

EPA Pesticide Factsheets

The Federal Interagency Committee on Indoor Air Quality (CIAQ), which meets three times a year, was established by Congress to coordinate the activities of the Federal Government on issues relating to Indoor Air Quality.

Inclusion of Coastal Wetlands within the Inventory of United States Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Sinks

NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

Crooks, S.; Wirth, T. C.; Herold, N.; Bernal, B.; Holmquist, J. R.; Troxler, T.; Megonigal, P.; Sutton-Grier, A.; Muth, M.; Emmett-Mattox, S.

2016-12-01

The Inventory of U.S. GHG Emissions and Sinks' (Inventory) chapter on Land Use, Land Use Change and Forestry (LULUCF) reports C stock changes and emissions of CH4 and N2O from forest management, and other land-use/land-use change activities. With the release of the 2013 Supplement to the 2006 IPCC Guidelines for National GHG Inventories: Wetlands (Wetlands Supplement) the United States has begun working to include emissions and removals from management activities on coastal wetlands, and is responding to a request by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) for Parties to report back in March 2017 on their country's experience in applying the Wetlands Supplement. To support the EPA, NOAA has formed an interagency and science community group i.e., Coastal Wetland Carbon Working Group (CWCWG). The task of the CWCWG is to conduct an initial IPCC Tier 1-2 baseline assessment of GHG emissions and removals associated with coastal wetlands using the methodologies described in the recently released IPCC Wetlands Supplement for inclusion in the Inventory submitted to the UNFCCC in April 2017. The 5 million ha coastal land area of the conterminous United States has been delineated based upon tide stations and LIDAR derived digital elevation model. Land use change within the coastal land area has been calculated from NOAA Coastal Change Analysis Program (C-CAP), Forest Inventory and National Resource Inventory (NRI). Tier 2 (i.e., country-specific) subnational / climate zone estimates of carbon stocks (including soils), along with carbon sequestration rates and methane emissions rates have been developed from literature. Future opportunities to improve the coastal wetland estimates include: refined quantification of methane emissions from wetlands across the salinity gradient (including mapping of this gradient) and from impounded waters; quantification of impacts of forestry activities on wetland soils; emissions and removals on forested tidally influenced and palustrine wetlands on coastal land areas; the fate of carbon released from eroded wetlands; and the extent of seagrass along with the emissions and removals associated with anthropogenic impacts to them.

Interagency Coordination Efforts Concerning Stabilization and Reconstruction: Who is Taking the Lead?

DTIC Science & Technology

2009-06-12

drawback is that it can also be slow and cumbersome --each agency also brings its own culture , philosophy and bureaucratic interests. Critics argue that...USSOUTHCOM‘s Western Hemisphere strategy. It states that ―The Western Hemisphere is our home. By virtue of geography, history, culture , demography, and...socially, politically, culturally , linguistically, and militarily. Published Reports The following published reports, conducted by subject matter

A Call for National Security System Transformation

DTIC Science & Technology

2012-06-01

Gabriel Marcella . Carlisle, PA: Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College, 2008. Fox News Corporation. “Last American Troops Leave Iraq...by Gabriel Marcella . Carlisle, PA: Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College, 2008. Stewart, Douglas. “Constructing the Iron Cage: The...1947 National Security Act.” In Affairs of State: The Interagency and National Security. Edited by Gabriel Marcella . Carlisle, PA: Strategic

Proceedings, U. S. Department of Agriculture interagency gypsy moth research review 1990

Treesearch

Kurt W. Gottschalk; Mark J. Twery; Shirley I. Smith; [Editors

1991-01-01

Eight invited papers and 68 abstracts of volunteer presentations on gypsy moth biology, ecology, impacts, and management presented at the U. S. Department of Agriculture Interagency Gypsy Moth Research Review.

48 CFR 801.602-74 - Review requirements for an interagency agreement.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

2011-10-01

... officer or a contracting officer at the VA National Acquisition Center or the Denver Acquisition and Logistics Center may sign an interagency agreement if the dollar threshold is within the contracting officer...

48 CFR 801.602-74 - Review requirements for an interagency agreement.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-10-01

... officer or a contracting officer at the VA National Acquisition Center or the Denver Acquisition and Logistics Center may sign an interagency agreement if the dollar threshold is within the contracting officer...

48 CFR 801.602-74 - Review requirements for an interagency agreement.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

2014-10-01

... officer or a contracting officer at the VA National Acquisition Center or the Denver Acquisition and Logistics Center may sign an interagency agreement if the dollar threshold is within the contracting officer...

48 CFR 801.602-74 - Review requirements for an interagency agreement.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

2013-10-01

... officer or a contracting officer at the VA National Acquisition Center or the Denver Acquisition and Logistics Center may sign an interagency agreement if the dollar threshold is within the contracting officer...

48 CFR 801.602-74 - Review requirements for an interagency agreement.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

2012-10-01

... officer or a contracting officer at the VA National Acquisition Center or the Denver Acquisition and Logistics Center may sign an interagency agreement if the dollar threshold is within the contracting officer...

41 CFR 109-39.107 - Limited exemptions.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-07-01

..., AND MOTOR VEHICLES 39-INTERAGENCY FLEET MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS 39.1-Establishment, Modification, and Discontinuance of Interagency Fleet Management Systems § 109-39.107 Limited exemptions. The Director, Office of... exemptions from the fleet management system. ...

48 CFR 17.501 - General.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

2011-10-01

....501 Federal Acquisition Regulations System FEDERAL ACQUISITION REGULATION CONTRACTING METHODS AND CONTRACT TYPES SPECIAL CONTRACTING METHODS Interagency Acquisitions 17.501 General. (a) Interagency acquisitions are commonly conducted through indefinite-delivery contracts, such as task- and delivery-order...

Nuclear thermal propulsion technology: Results of an interagency panel in FY 1991

NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)

Clark, John S.; Mcdaniel, Patrick; Howe, Steven; Helms, Ira; Stanley, Marland

1993-01-01

NASA LeRC was selected to lead nuclear propulsion technology development for NASA. Also participating in the project are NASA MSFC and JPL. The U.S. Department of Energy will develop nuclear technology and will conduct nuclear component, subsystem, and system testing at appropriate DOE test facilities. NASA program management is the responsibility of NASA/RP. The project includes both nuclear electric propulsion (NEP) and nuclear thermal propulsion (NTP) technology development. This report summarizes the efforts of an interagency panel that evaluated NTP technology in 1991. Other panels were also at work in 1991 on other aspects of nuclear propulsion, and the six panels worked closely together. The charters for the other panels and some of their results are also discussed. Important collaborative efforts with other panels are highlighted. The interagency (NASA/DOE/DOD) NTP Technology Panel worked in 1991 to evaluate nuclear thermal propulsion concepts on a consistent basis. Additionally, the panel worked to continue technology development project planning for a joint project in nuclear propulsion for the Space Exploration Initiative (SEI). Five meetings of the panel were held in 1991 to continue the planning for technology development of nuclear thermal propulsion systems. The state-of-the-art of the NTP technologies was reviewed in some detail. The major technologies identified were as follows: fuels, coatings, and other reactor technologies; materials; instrumentation, controls, health monitoring and management, and associated technologies; nozzles; and feed system technology, including turbopump assemblies.

System model development for nuclear thermal propulsion

NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)

Walton, James T.; Hannan, Nelson A.; Perkins, Ken R.; Buksa, John H.; Worley, Brian A.; Dobranich, Dean

1992-01-01

A critical enabling technology in the evolutionary development of nuclear thermal propulsion (NTP) is the ability to predict the system performance under a variety of operating conditions. This is crucial for mission analysis and for control subsystem testing as well as for the modeling of various failure modes. Performance must be accurately predicted during steady-state and transient operation, including startup, shutdown, and post operation cooling. The development and application of verified and validated system models has the potential to reduce the design, testing, and cost and time required for the technology to reach flight-ready status. Since Oct. 1991, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), Department of Defense (DOD), and NASA have initiated critical technology development efforts for NTP systems to be used on Space Exploration Initiative (SEI) missions to the Moon and Mars. This paper presents the strategy and progress of an interagency NASA/DOE/DOD team for NTP system modeling. It is the intent of the interagency team to develop several levels of computer programs to simulate various NTP systems. The first level will provide rapid, parameterized calculations of overall system performance. Succeeding computer programs will provide analysis of each component in sufficient detail to guide the design teams and experimental efforts. The computer programs will allow simulation of the entire system to allow prediction of the integrated performance. An interagency team was formed for this task to use the best capabilities available and to assure appropriate peer review.

76 FR 72715 - National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences; Notice of Meeting

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2011-11-25

..., as amended (5 U.S.C. App.), notice is hereby given of a meeting of the Interagency Breast Cancer and... the meeting. Name of Committee: Interagency Breast Cancer and Environmental Research Coordinating...

76 FR 80954 - National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences; Notice of Meeting

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2011-12-27

..., as amended (5 U.S.C. App.), notice is hereby given of a meeting of the Interagency Breast Cancer and... the meeting. Name of Committee: Interagency Breast Cancer and Environmental Research Coordinating...

41 CFR 101-39.100 - General.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-07-01

... FEDERAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT REGULATIONS AVIATION, TRANSPORTATION, AND MOTOR VEHICLES 39-INTERAGENCY FLEET MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS 39.1-Establishment, Modification, and Discontinuance of Interagency Fleet Management... fleet management systems. (a) Based on these studies, the Administrator of General Services, with the...

5 CFR 330.701 - Purpose.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-01-01

... Administrative Personnel OFFICE OF PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT CIVIL SERVICE REGULATIONS RECRUITMENT, SELECTION, AND PLACEMENT (GENERAL) Interagency Career Transition Assistance Plan for Displaced Employees § 330.701 Purpose... interagency career transition assistance program for Federal employees during a period of severe Federal...

5 CFR 330.711 - Oversight.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-01-01

... PLACEMENT (GENERAL) Interagency Career Transition Assistance Plan for Displaced Employees § 330.711 Oversight. OPM is responsible for oversight of the Interagency Career Transition Assistance Plan for Displaced Employees and may conduct reviews of agency activity at any time. ...

IRIS Toxicological Review of Benzo[a]pyrene (Interagency ...

EPA Pesticide Factsheets

On August 21, 2013, the draft Toxicological Review of Benzo[a]pyrene and the draft charge to external peer reviewers were released for public review and comment. The Toxicological Review and charge were reviewed internally by EPA and by other federal agencies and White House Offices before public release. Consistent with the May 2009 IRIS assessment development process, all written comments on IRIS assessments submitted by other federal agencies and White House Offices are made publicly available. Accordingly, interagency comments and the interagency science consultation materials provided to other agencies, including interagency review drafts of the IRIS Toxicological Review of Benzo[a]pyrene and the charge to external peer reviewers, are posted on this site. EPA is undertaking an update of the Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS) health assessment for benzo[a]pyrene (BaP). The outcome of this project is an updated Toxicological Review and IRIS Summary for BaP that will be entered into the IRIS database.

Ocean management plan includes array of recommendations

NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

Showstack, Randy

When U.S. President Bill Clinton and Vice President Al Gore appeared in Monterey, California in June 1998 for a National Oceans Conference, some of the salt water spray from the Pacific Ocean must have clung to them.As a follow-up to the conference, the Clinton Administration on September 2 issued an interagency report to help guide federal efforts in establishing a comprehensive ocean policy.The report, which touches upon a number of global issues including the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, contains nearly 150 recommendations.

Taming Typhon: Advancing Climate Literacy by Coordinating Federal Earth System Science Education Investments Through the U.S. Climate Change Science Program

NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

Karsten, J. L.; Niepold, F.; Wei, M.; Waple, A. M.

2008-12-01

Thirteen Federal agencies in the United States invest in research, communication, and education activities related to climate and global change. The U.S. Climate Change Science Program (CCSP) works to integrate the research activities of these different agencies, with oversight from the Office of Science and Technology Policy, the Council on Environmental Quality, the National Economic Council and the Office of Management and Budget. The CCSP is the result of a Presidential initative in 2001 to build on the Global Change Research Program, which exists as a result of the Global Change Research Act of 1990. This initiative was to shift the focus of the Program from 'discovery and characterization' to 'differentiation and strategy investigation.' With this shift, CCSP's focus is now on evaluating optimal strategies for addressing climate change risks, improving coordination among the Federal agencies, communicating research results to all stakeholders (including national policy leaders and local resource managers), and improving public debate and decision-making related to global change. Implicit to these activities is the need to educate the general public about the science of climate change and its consequences, as well as coordinate Federal investments related to climate change education. This is no small task, given the variety of missions and approaches of the participating agencies. Recognizing that its Communications Interagency Working Group (CIWG) does not have the expertise or focus to adequately address issues related to science education, the CCSP recently established an ad-hoc Education Interagency Working Group (EIWG), comprising representatives from all 13 agencies, that will work closely with the CIWG to enhance education goals. Its mission is to advance literacy in climate and related sciences and increase informed decision making for the Nation. The EIWG envisions that its primary activities in the near-term will be focused on establishing: (1) a consensus framework to define climate literacy; (2) a protocol and process for vetting, reviewing, and assuring scientific quality of educational materials related to climate change; (3) a Federal network of professionals who can share, access, and identify complementary educational materials; (4) a suite of evaluation tools to gauge effectiveness of interagency programs related to climate change education; (5) a clearinghouse or central repository of climate change education resources and expertise; and (6) professional development resources for educators seeking to improve their understanding of climate change and related Earth system science principles.

Coarse particle speciation at selected locations in the rural continental United States

NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

Malm, William C.; Pitchford, Marc L.; McDade, Charles; Ashbaugh, Lowell L.

A few short-term special studies at National Parks have shown that coarse mass (CM) (2.5- 10μm) may not be just crustal minerals but may consist of a substantial amount ( ≈40-50%) of carbonaceous material and inorganic salts such as calcium nitrate and sodium nitrate. To more fully investigate the composition of coarse particles, a program of coarse particle sampling and speciation analysis at nine of the Interagency Monitoring of Protected Visual Environments (IMPROVE) sites was initiated 19 March 2003 and operated through the year 2004. Only the data for 2004 are reported here. Sites were selected to be representative of the continental United States and were operated according to IMPROVE protocol analytical procedures. Crustal minerals (soil) are the single largest contributor to CM at all but one monitoring location. The average fractional contributions range from a high of 76% at Grand Canyon National Park to a low of 34% at Mount Rainier National Park. The second largest contributor to CM is organic mass, which on an average annual fractional basis is highest at Mount Rainier at 59%. At Great Smoky Mountains National Park, organic mass contributes 40% on average, while at four sites organic mass concentrations contribute between 20% and 30% of the CM. Nitrates are on average the third largest contributor to CM concentrations. The highest fractional contributions of nitrates to CM are at Brigantine National Wildlife Refuge, Great Smoky Mountains, and San Gorgonio wilderness area at 10-12%. Sulfates contribute less than about 5% at all sites.

Food irradiation: after 35 years, have we made progress. A government perspective.

PubMed

Young, Alvin L

2003-01-01

The use of irradiation to improve the safety, protect the nutritional benefits, and preserve the quality of fresh and processed foods is a well established and proven technology. Over the past 35 years, the United States Government has invested in the science to confirm safety and in the technology to show application. The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the Food and Drug Administration have approved sources of ionizing radiation for the treatment of foods, and their application to most meats, fruits, vegetables, and spices. Despite the value of this technology to the food industry and to the health and welfare of the public, only minimal application of this technology occurs. This underscores the importance of increasing the public's understanding of radiation risks relative to other hazards. Accordingly, in 1995, the Committee on Interagency Radiation Research and Policy Coordination of the Executive Office of the President made recommendations for the creation of a centralized National Radiation Information Center that would work closely with Federal departments and agencies in responding to public queries about radiation issues and Federal programs. This article updates a commentary published in 1996 (Young 1996). In the past six years, some progress has been made, including the establishment of a government operated Food Irradiation Information Center, and the completion of final rule making by USDA, thus permitting the safe treatment of meats and poultry. Despite these actions, little progress has been made on the public acceptance of this technology. The need for an informed public and for a better understanding of risks, i.e., risk communication, is noted.

28 CFR 42.413 - Interagency cooperation and delegations.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

2014-07-01

... 28 Judicial Administration 1 2014-07-01 2014-07-01 false Interagency cooperation and delegations. 42.413 Section 42.413 Judicial Administration DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE NONDISCRIMINATION; EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY; POLICIES AND PROCEDURES Coordination of Enforcement of Non-discrimination in...

76 FR 36174 - Federal Interagency Committee on Emergency Medical Services; Meeting

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2011-06-21

... DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION National Highway Traffic Safety Administration [NHTSA Docket No... Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), DOT. ACTION: Meeting Notice--Federal Interagency Committee... CONTACT: Drew Dawson, Director, Office of Emergency Medical Services, National Highway Traffic Safety...

3 CFR 13580 - Executive Order 13580 of July 12, 2011. Interagency Working Group on Coordination of Domestic...

Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

2012-01-01

...: Section 1. Policy. Interagency coordination is important for the safe, responsible, and efficient... agency or office, from: (i) the Council on Environmental Quality; (ii) the Office of Science and...

Interagency cooperation : FEMA and DOD in domestic support operations.

DOT National Transportation Integrated Search

1997-05-01

This paper studies the interagency cooperation between DOD and FEMA, focusing specifically on the evolution of doctrine and procedures for responding to natural disasters. While both FEMA and DOD have improved in their ability to respond to disasters...

WHO'S WHO III IN THE INTERAGENCY ENERGY/ENVIRONMENT R AND D PROGRAM

EPA Science Inventory

This directory provides a means of access to information on specific projects currently underway within the Interagency Program. The 14 major categories covered are: Characterization, measurement, and monitoring, Environmental transport processes, Health effects, Ecological effec...

Special Operations Forces Interagency Counterterrorism Reference Manual, Second Edition

DTIC Science & Technology

2011-04-01

identify, interdict, and defeat terrorists. The Antiterrorism Assistance Program ( ATA ), implemented by the DS and discussed later (page 1-12), is...the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Antiterrorism Assistance Program ( ATA ) www.state.gov/m/ds/terrorism/c8583.htm The ATA is managed by the Office...scene investigation, airport and building secu- rity, maritime protection measures, and VIP protec- tion. More broadly, ATA seek to increase capacity to

Collaborating To Serve Arizona Students & Families More Effectively: Phase 1 Report. Evaluation of Murphy School District-Department of Economic Security Collaborative Project.

ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

Izu, Jo Ann; Carreon, Tori

This report presents the results of Phase I of an evaluation of the Murphy School District (MSD)-Department of Economic Security (DES) collaborative effort, one of the first interagency partnerships in the state of Arizona that attempts to address the needs of students and their families more effectively. The primary purposes of the evaluation are…

Consolidated Navy-Marines Environmental Law Deskbook. Revised

DTIC Science & Technology

1994-05-01

106 ????? 1505 (1992)) FGD Flue Gas Desulfurization FGS Final Governing Standards FICUN Federal Interagency Committee on Urban Noise FIFRA Federal...SIPs. A. SIP management. Each SIP must be approved by EPA and must contain a mix of controls and strategies sufficient to achieve and maintain the...and contain release. Identify the parties carrying out response. If none, state why. EXAMPLE: Gas barriers used to control and contain vapor emissions

50 CFR 402.43 - Interagency exchanges of information.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-10-01

... ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE); ENDANGERED SPECIES COMMITTEE REGULATIONS SUBCHAPTER A INTERAGENCY COOPERATION-ENDANGERED SPECIES ACT OF 1973, AS AMENDED Counterpart Regulations Governing Actions by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Under the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act § 402.43...

50 CFR 402.43 - Interagency exchanges of information.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

2012-10-01

... ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE); ENDANGERED SPECIES COMMITTEE REGULATIONS SUBCHAPTER A INTERAGENCY COOPERATION-ENDANGERED SPECIES ACT OF 1973, AS AMENDED Counterpart Regulations Governing Actions by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Under the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act § 402.43...

50 CFR 402.43 - Interagency exchanges of information.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

2014-10-01

... ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE); ENDANGERED SPECIES COMMITTEE REGULATIONS SUBCHAPTER A INTERAGENCY COOPERATION-ENDANGERED SPECIES ACT OF 1973, AS AMENDED Counterpart Regulations Governing Actions by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Under the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act § 402.43...

50 CFR 402.43 - Interagency exchanges of information.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

2013-10-01

... ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE); ENDANGERED SPECIES COMMITTEE REGULATIONS SUBCHAPTER A INTERAGENCY COOPERATION-ENDANGERED SPECIES ACT OF 1973, AS AMENDED Counterpart Regulations Governing Actions by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Under the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act § 402.43...

50 CFR 402.43 - Interagency exchanges of information.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

2011-10-01

... ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE); ENDANGERED SPECIES COMMITTEE REGULATIONS SUBCHAPTER A INTERAGENCY COOPERATION-ENDANGERED SPECIES ACT OF 1973, AS AMENDED Counterpart Regulations Governing Actions by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Under the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act § 402.43...

Memorandum of Understanding Regarding Interagency Coordination and Collaboration for the Protection of Tribal Treaty Rights

EPA Pesticide Factsheets

Interagency Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) affirming protection of tribal treaty rights and similar tribal rights relating to natural resources when federal action is taken. It will be updated as additional federal agencies become signatories.

75 FR 34201 - Meeting Notice-Federal Interagency Committee on Emergency Medical Services

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2010-06-16

... DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION National Highway Traffic Safety Administration [NHTSA Docket No...: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), DOT. ACTION: Meeting Notice--Federal Interagency..., Director, Office of Emergency Medical Services, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, 1200 New...

(Docket A-93-02) Category II-F: Interagency Review Materials

EPA Pesticide Factsheets

This Index lists Interagency review materials related to the decision to certify that DOE had met the compliance criteria established by EPA in 40 CFR Part 194 and the disposal regulations set by EPA in 40 CFR Part 191.

Notification: Preliminary Research: Review of Independent Government Cost Estimates and Indirect Costs for EPA’s Interagency Agreements

EPA Pesticide Factsheets

Project #OA-FY14-0130, February 11, 2014. The EPA OIG plans to begin preliminary research of the independent government cost estimates and indirect costs for the EPA's funds-in interagency agreements.

75 FR 68612 - National Institute of Mental Health; Notice of Meeting

Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

2010-11-08

... Autism Coordinating Committee (IACC). The Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee (IACC) Services...: Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee (IACC) Type of meeting: Services Subcommittee. Date: November 29..., Access code: 1427016. Contact Person: Ms. Lina Perez, Office of Autism Research Coordination, National...

5 CFR 720.307 - Interagency report clearance.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

2012-01-01

... 5 Administrative Personnel 2 2012-01-01 2012-01-01 false Interagency report clearance. 720.307 Section 720.307 Administrative Personnel OFFICE OF PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT (CONTINUED) CIVIL SERVICE REGULATIONS (CONTINUED) AFFIRMATIVE EMPLOYMENT PROGRAMS Disabled Veterans Affirmative Action Program § 720.307...

41 CFR 101-39.106 - Unlimited exemptions.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-07-01

...-INTERAGENCY FLEET MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS 39.1-Establishment, Modification, and Discontinuance of Interagency Fleet Management Systems § 101-39.106 Unlimited exemptions. Unlimited exemptions from inclusion in the fleet... below. Unlimited exemptions do not preclude agencies from requesting fleet management services, if...

41 CFR 101-39.400 - General.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-07-01

... FEDERAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT REGULATIONS AVIATION, TRANSPORTATION, AND MOTOR VEHICLES 39-INTERAGENCY FLEET... responsible for the operation of General Services Administration (GSA) Interagency Fleet Management System... 41 Public Contracts and Property Management 2 2010-07-01 2010-07-01 true General. 101-39.400...

41 CFR 101-39.003 - Financing.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-07-01

... FEDERAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT REGULATIONS AVIATION, TRANSPORTATION, AND MOTOR VEHICLES 39-INTERAGENCY FLEET..., and operation of fleet management systems. (b) When an agency other than GSA operates an interagency fleet management system, the financing and accounting methods shall be developed by GSA in cooperation...

48 CFR 317.7003 - Documentation for multi-agency contracts.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-10-01

... potential orders. (3) During a declared (Presidential or HHS Secretarial) emergency, funding and... contracts. Each interagency agreement shall address all the elements identified in OFPP's model interagency... requesting organizations shall not forward funding or requirements documentation outside HHS without a...

75 FR 39329 - Interagency Guidance on Asset Securitization Activities

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2010-07-08

... DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY Office of Thrift Supervision Interagency Guidance on Asset Securitization Activities AGENCY: Office of Thrift Supervision (OTS), Treasury. ACTION: Notice and request for...; and Information Collection Comments, Chief Counsel's Office, Office of Thrift Supervision, 1700 G...

EPA’s Environmental Justice Research Roadmap and Interagency Efforts on Climate Justice

EPA Science Inventory

Stressors associated with climate change are expected to be disproportionately greater for overburdened communities. This webinar will present activities of the Climate Impacts subcommittee of the Federal Interagency Working Group (IWG) on Stressors associated with climate chang...

50 CFR 17.83 - Interagency cooperation.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

2013-10-01

... WILDLIFE AND PLANTS (CONTINUED) ENDANGERED AND THREATENED WILDLIFE AND PLANTS Experimental Populations § 17.83 Interagency cooperation. (a) Any experimental population designated for a listed species (1... listed under the Act as a threatened species. (b) Any experimental population designated for a listed...

50 CFR 17.83 - Interagency cooperation.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

2014-10-01

... WILDLIFE AND PLANTS (CONTINUED) ENDANGERED AND THREATENED WILDLIFE AND PLANTS Experimental Populations § 17.83 Interagency cooperation. (a) Any experimental population designated for a listed species (1... listed under the Act as a threatened species. (b) Any experimental population designated for a listed...

50 CFR 17.83 - Interagency cooperation.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

2011-10-01

... WILDLIFE AND PLANTS (CONTINUED) ENDANGERED AND THREATENED WILDLIFE AND PLANTS Experimental Populations § 17.83 Interagency cooperation. (a) Any experimental population designated for a listed species (1... listed under the Act as a threatened species. (b) Any experimental population designated for a listed...

50 CFR 17.83 - Interagency cooperation.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

2012-10-01

... WILDLIFE AND PLANTS (CONTINUED) ENDANGERED AND THREATENED WILDLIFE AND PLANTS Experimental Populations § 17.83 Interagency cooperation. (a) Any experimental population designated for a listed species (1... listed under the Act as a threatened species. (b) Any experimental population designated for a listed...