Sentences with phrase «approached by any federal agency»

In interviewing her, I discovered that she had never been approached by any federal agency to help remedy this tragedy.

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To accompany the toolkit and provide high - level encouragement to federal agencies to use crowdsourcing approaches, Shanley worked with OSTP to help shape the White House memorandum «Addressing Societal and Scientific Challenges through Citizen Science and Crowdsourcing» issued by Assistant to the President for Science and Technology John Holdren.

We have been approached many times by other federal agencies and by states at the same time — when the federal agency in question and the state might be in a fight about some issue.

Our approach to confronting these challenges is to center the workshop on research findings emerging from the SciSIP awards; provide for independent, collegial commentary on these presentations by individuals whose work has spanned, or crossed over, implementing and writing about science policy (and who have not applied for SciSIP awards); and then to carefully roll out a distillation of findings from SciSIP awards to federal agencies and other organizations more directly involved in the formulation or implementation of science policy.

The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) and Federal Transit Administration (FTA), hereafter referred to as the «Agencies,» are engaging interested parties in a discussion on the use of programmatic approaches to conduct environmental reviews, as required by Section 1305 of the Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act (MAP - 21; 23 U.S.C. 139 (b)(3)-RRB-.

The implementation of this national policy is consistent with the approach taken by other law enforcement organizations as well as other federal agencies and departments, such as the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) and the Customs Border Services Agency (CBSA).

In his Executive Order on Federal Leadership in Environmental, Energy, and Economic Performance on October 5, 2009, President Obama said that the task force was by that time «already engaged in developing the domestic and international dimensions of a U.S. strategy for adaptation to climate change» and should «develop approaches through which the policies and practices of the agencies can be made compatible with and reinforce that strategy.»

This approach is also consistent with the recommendation by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations and the National Committee for Quality Assurance, which stated in their report titled Protecting Personal Health Information: A Framework for Meeting the Challenges in a Managed Care Environment (1998) that «Oversight organizations, including accrediting bodies, states, and federal agencies, should include in their contracts terms that describe their responsibility to maintain the confidentiality of any personally identifiable health information that they review.»

The Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation proposes, in the national strategy to overcome Indigenous disadvantage, that Commonwealth / State fiscal relations with Indigenous people could be improved by governments employing mechanisms to ensure adequate funding; offering supplementary funding incentives for meeting benchmarks agreed with Indigenous organizations (such as through federal Special Purpose Payments grants); pooling funds across agencies and levels of government; developing a joint agency approach to coordination of services and programs; creating flexible funding arrangements; ensuring geographic distribution of funds; and through prioritising the allocation of funds to community controlled services.