EP 1165-2-502
30 Sep 99
A. Each federal agency that is a party to this Memorandum of Understanding shall designate an
individual who will be responsible for coordinating the agency's internal and interagency
activities in support of this Memorandum of Understanding to implement the recommendations
of the Task Force report as appropriate. Such designation shall be reported to the Interagency
Ecosystem Management Task Force within 30 days of signature. The collective agency
designees will serve as an Implementation Committee. The Committee will meet regularly to
share information on progress in implementing this Memorandum of Understanding, problems
encountered, and solutions proposed in resolving them. The Committee shall provide reports
at meetings of the Interagency Ecosystem Management Task Force. Such reports should
include any unresolved issues that may require the attention of the Task Force.
B. Each signatory agency shall examine the specific recommendations made in the report of the
Interagency Ecosystem Management Task Force in light of its authorities, policies and
procedures, and identify recommendations that may apply to its programs. Based on this
review, agencies shall determine what changes or interagency actions are necessary or
desirable, undertake appropriate actions, monitor accomplishments, and report their findings
and actions through the Implementation Committee to the Interagency Ecosystem,
Management Task Force on a schedule to be determined by the Task Force.
C. The Interagency Ecosystem Management Task Force shall encourage regional directors or
comparable executives of the federal agencies in the various regions to have regular and
systematic exchanges of information about plans, priorities and problems. The purposes are
to eliminate inefficiencies and duplication of effort, to keep executives informed about federal
government activities outside of their agencies, to clarify the respective contributions to
ecosystem activities of federal agencies with varying missions (such as land management,
resource management, regulatory, research, infrastructure, technical assistance, and funding),
and to strengthen executive-level support for the interagency ecosystem activities of field
personnel.
D. Each signatory agency shall participate, as appropriate to its mandates, in ecosystem
management efforts initiated by other federal agencies. by state, local or tribal governments,
or as a result of local grass-roots efforts. Members of the Implementation Committees shall
identify their ongoing ecosystem efforts and other efforts that come to their attention, share
information about those efforts, discuss appropriator. agency actions with regard to
participating in those efforts, and identify successful and unsuccessful components of those
efforts. Signatory agencies shall also look for opportunities is new geographic areas for
federal efforts in collaboration with stakeholders.
E. The Interagency Ecosystem Management Task Force will propose as appropriate, new
regional ecosystem demonstration initiatives. These initiatives will build upon the knowledge
gained from evaluating the seven ecosystems that were the subject of the Task Force reports.
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