Interagency Coordination and Elevation Sample Clauses

Interagency Coordination and Elevation. One of the most important objectives of the MOA is to institutionalize strong working relationships among our regional and field offices who have day- to-day responsibility for administering our programs. Ongoing planning and collaboration at the regional/field level are essential to carrying out our programs effectively. Therefore, the MOA directs our staff to establish local/ regional review teams that will meet periodically to identify upcoming priorities and workload requirements and generally ensure close coordination on the full range of activities involving water quality and endangered/ threatened species protection. These teams will also develop procedures for working with States and Tribes on these matters. We have added language to the MOA stating that the regional review teams should also provide assistance to the interagency oversight panel in conducting a proactive conservation review that will identify ways in which EPA can more fully utilize its authorities for the conservation of listed species. We also believe that effective coordination among senior managers at the regional level is vital to maintaining effective working relationships. Therefore, in addition to directing regional staff and day-to-day managers to meet on a regular basis through the regional review teams, we have added to the MOA a directive that EPA and Service regional senior managers (e.g., Regional Administrator or Division Director from EPA, Regional Director or Assistant Regional Director from the FWS, Assistant Regional Administrator for NMFS) meet at least annually to review on a programmatic basis ongoing work between our agencies. These meetings will focus on establishing overall priorities, assessing resource needs and providing direction to mid- level managers and staff. The draft MOA also included a procedure for elevating issues that may arise among our regional and field offices. We have included the elevation procedure in the final MOA with certain revisions. First, one commenter believed that the proposed elevation process applied only to disagreements that may arise in formal section 7 consultations, and requested clarification of the scope of issues addressed by the elevation procedure. We did not intend to use the elevation process solely for issues arising in formal section 7 consultations. It is available to resolve disagreements arising in formal or informal consultations, or other areas of cooperation, such as EPA oversight of State/Tribal NPDES perm...
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