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APPENDIX B: EXCERPTS FROM FY 1994 BUDGET JUSTIFICATION
APPENDIX B: EXCERPTS FROM FY 1994 BUDGET JUSTIFICATION
Pages 181-192
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Thus, this appendix contains excerpts of the DOl's FY 1994 budget justification to Congress that describes the mission and organization Hat DOI has proposed for the National Biological Survey. GENERAL STATEMFrTr Overview "The National Biological Survey will produce the map we need to avoid the economic and environmental 'train wrecks' we see scattered across the country.
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The creation of the National Biological Survey (NBS) as a freestanding bureau within the Department of the Interior is aimed at filling the vacuum that currently exists for broad scale biological information and assessments of the Nation's natural resources.
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· Enable Departmental managers to target resources so as to respond to the most critical national biological resource concerns while ensuring that local concerns are also addressed. · Establish national leadership and focus for the Department's biological science program, enhancing its credibility and providing a greater incentive for natural resource managers and others to rely upon scientifically generated data and conclusions.
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Mission and Activates The mission of the NBS will be to gather, analyze and disseminate the information necessary for the wise stewardship of our Nation's natural resources, and to foster an understanding of our biological systems and the benefits they provide to society. The NBS will act as an independent science bureau, without advocating positions on resource management issues and without regulatory or land and water development authorities.
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NBS will provide the best available, timely information necessary for Department bureaus to make policy and natural resource management decisions at the local level. NBS will also serve, on a reimbursable basis, the needs of other federal and state agencies, local governments, and other entities.
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The inventory program will be conducted in concert with other federal agencies, state agencies, State Heritage Programs nongovernmental organizations, and academia. A program for technical development and information and technology transfer will provide managers with tools and information to help interpret and apply biological information in order to better manage natural resources.
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The Headquarters office maintains contacts with Departmental and bureau offices, the Office of Management and Budget, the Office of Personnel Management, Congress, other federal and state agencies, national organizations, the media and members of the public; and provides central administrative direction and procedures for NBS activities. EcOregionai Centers Each Center is headed by an Assistant Director, and has overall responsibility for providing line management, procedural and operational guidance for all NBS activities - except national programs - within the region under its jurisdiction.
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Research Centers Each headed by a Center Director, have responsibility for directing and conducting large scale regional research, monitoring, and information transfer activities within their specialty areas of jurisdiction; for coordination with and support to resource managers and other research customers; for providing administrative support as delegated; and for supervising Field Stations for whom they have jurisdiction. There are a total of 12 Research Centers and 40 Field Stations.
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Information Transfer The Assistant Director for Information Transfer will direct activities related to management and storage of data within the NBS as well as the transfer of scientific information to research customers. These activities include the development of scientific publications, databases, and syntheses of information generated by research and inventory and monitoring programs.
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The majority of the Department's biologists are involved in the application of biological information to decisions, rather than in research and major inventory efforts, and will remain in the resource management bureaus. Inventory and monitoring activities to be transferred to NBS will include those national and regional level efforts that are necessary for, and can contribute to, a comprehensive national picture of the abundance, distribution, and health of biological resources.
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