Procedures to Facilitate Interagency Cooperation Sample Clauses

Procedures to Facilitate Interagency Cooperation. EPA and the Services intend to work cooperatively to achieve their mutually shared objectives of protecting the quality of waters of the United States and species that depend on those waters. To facilitate collaboration among agency field and regional staff for planning and prioritizing future CWA/ ESA actions and resolving any potential conflicts or disagreements through a structured, time-sensitive process at the lowest possible level, the agencies will follow the coordination and elevation procedures described below. 1. Local/Regional Coordinating Teams The regional offices of EPA and the Services will establish coordinating teams, including representation from field offices, to xxxxxx early and recurring collaboration on various activities related to the CWA and the ESA. These teams will, as appropriate: a. Meet at least twice annually; b. Identify upcoming workload requirements. This dialogue will allow signatory agencies to become aware of and provide input on upcoming activities such as annual work plans, triennial water quality standards reviews, recovery plan preparation, proposed State or Tribal program assumptions, proposed listings, or proposed habitat conservation planning efforts; c. Identify high priority areas of concern and opportunities for cooperation; d. Assist one another in determining which categories of NPDES permits should be identified for review by EPA and the Services for endangered species concerns, including waters of high concern in each State that should be priorities for EPA oversight; and how to identify, in cooperation with States and Tribes, the available information for evaluating effects of permitted discharges on species; e. Identify current and future research needs and determine which of these research needs are appropriate to convey to the research coordinating committee and which are appropriate for local or regional accomplishment; f. Identify training needs; g. Identify ways to reduce the impacts of proposed agency actions on endangered and threatened species; and h. Assist the oversight panel in conducting a programmatic review of EPA’s authorities and identifying ways that EPA can more fully utilize those authorities to carry out programs for the conservation of listed species. Each of these local/regional coordinating teams will develop mechanisms to facilitate streamlining of various work activities as appropriate to the local circumstances. Such streamlining should facilitate early exchange of information, ...
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