§6706 — Title 16 Conservation | U.S. Code

Summary

Within 5 years after October 5, 2004, and every 5 years after that, the Secretary must work with the Secretary of the Interior to finish and send a detailed review of each Institute’s programs to the Committee on Resources and the Committee on Agriculture of the House and to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources of the Senate. The review must check, as much as possible, whether research, communication, and information-sharing meet the chapter’s goals (covering five goals such as landscape-level active adaptive ecosystem management, lower planning costs, avoiding duplicate or conflicting work, more public acceptance, and general satisfaction), whether each Institute carried out its duties under section 6704(c), and whether federal funding should continue. If, after that review, the Secretary and the Secretary of the Interior decide an Institute no longer qualifies for federal help, the Institute will get no more federal assistance until the Secretaries are satisfied its qualifications are restored.

Title 16, §6706

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(a)Not later than 5 years after October 5, 2004, and every 5 years thereafter, the Secretary, in consultation with the Secretary of the Interior, shall complete and submit to the Committee on Resources and the Committee on Agriculture of the House of Representatives and to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources of the Senate a detailed evaluation of the programs and activities of each Institute—

(1)to ensure, to the maximum extent practicable, that the research, communication tools, and information transfer activities of each Institute are sufficient to achieve the purposes of this chapter, including—

(A)implementing active adaptive ecosystem management practices at the landscape level;

(B)reducing unnecessary planning costs;

(C)avoiding duplicative and conflicting efforts;

(D)increasing public acceptance of active adaptive ecosystem management practices; and

(E)achieving general satisfaction on the part of affected entities;

(2)to determine the extent to which each Institute has implemented its duties under section 6704(c) of this title; and

(3)to determine whether continued provision of Federal assistance to each Institute is warranted.

(b)If, as a result of an evaluation under subsection (a), the Secretary, in consultation with the Secretary of the Interior, determines that an Institute does not qualify for further Federal assistance under this chapter, the Institute shall receive no further Federal assistance under this chapter until such time as the qualifications of the Institute are reestablished to the satisfaction of the Secretaries.

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Change of Name

Committee on Resources of House of Representatives changed to Committee on Natural Resources of House of Representatives by House Resolution No. 6, One Hundred Tenth Congress, Jan. 5, 2007.

§6706 Monitoring and Evaluation

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Title 16, §6706

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