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6 Principles and Recommendations
Pages 60-63

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... ENSURING LABORATORY FUNCTIONS MEET THE HIGHEST-PRIORITY MISSION NEEDS Summary Principle 2: Essential laboratory capabilities are the ones that are relevant to the current mission and the ones that anticipate future mission needs. Priorities for laboratory capabilities should focus on work that is central to the agency's mission rather than on small peripheral efforts.
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From page 61...
... MANAGEMENT Summary Principle 6: Effective management with appropriate flexibility enables an efficient and effective laboratory enterprise. The means of implementing the vision for the laboratory enterprise should be determined by the EPA administrator with a view to meeting the functional criteria set forth in this report for enhancing the efficiency and effectiveness of the enterprise.
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From page 62...
... Principle 4-2: Systematic involvement of all the agency's laboratories in the planning process is far preferable to ad hoc connections and would probably yield a stronger and more efficient laboratory enterprise. EPA should ensure that its laboratory planning process includes cross–regional office and cross– program office laboratory input and that it is more transparent within the agency and to outsiders.
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From page 63...
... Principle 4-5: An effective EPA laboratory enterprise should be fully cognizant of the array of re search conducted outside EPA laboratories, should have mechanisms and programs to capitalize on that scientific work, and should have plans and staffs in its own laboratories not only to accomplish work necessary for its mission but to complement efforts of other agencies and to provide a means of collecting, sorting, and analyzing the results of those efforts to serve EPA's mission. EPA should develop more explicit plans for partnering with other agencies (federal and state)
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