They work with
senior agency officials, congressional staff, and members of Congress to shape agency interpretations, clarify regulatory guidance, challenge adverse decisions, develop effective compliance plans, and enact legislation into law.
EPA is expecting some states to cut emissions by switching to natural gas for electricity generation, according to
senior agency officials on a media briefing.
To help manage these risks,
the Senior Agency Official for Privacy (SAOP) has issued policy and supplemental guidance to ensure that the DOT fulfills its commitments to protect the personal privacy of all individuals.
The DOT CIO is
the Senior Agency Official for Privacy (SAOP) and operational responsibilities of the SAOP and implementation of the Privacy Act are assigned to the DOT Chief Privacy Officer.
Nov. 13 — The Environmental Protection Agency is close to issuing guidance for reducing methane emissions from oil and natural gas wells,
a senior agency official said Nov. 13.
Not exact matches
«I've had the opportunity to consult with the
senior officials of the security and police
agencies of the government of Canada, and on the basis of all available information at the present time there would appear to be no national security connection to this particular incident,» Goodale said.
In recent weeks, Mueller's team has interviewed a number of
senior officials, including Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats, National Security
Agency Director Michael Rogers, and Attorney General Jeff Sessions, as well as Comey,
officials said.
PARIS — Better information - sharing between countries, law enforcement
agencies, financial services companies and the tech industry will help combat financing for the Islamic State group and al - Qaida, a
senior international
official said Thursday.
The United States government is creating a new
agency to monitor cybersecurity threats, pooling and analyzing information on a spectrum of diffuse risks, a
senior Obama administration
official said on Tuesday.
A
senior North Korean diplomat left for Finland on Sunday for talks with former U.S. and South Korean
officials, Yonhap News
Agency reported, amid a series of diplomatic encounters ahead of a possible U.S. - North Korean summit.
And in the days before Thanksgiving,
senior U.S.
officials from several
agencies met at the White House to discuss the policy, according to current and former
officials.
In a sign the row might spread further, the owner of a venue in Sweden where a
senior official from Turkey's ruling party had been due to hold a rally on Sunday cancelled the rental contract, Turkey's private Dogan news
agency reported.
A
senior Federal Aviation Administration
official said in June the
agency expects to finalize regulations for commercial drone operations over the next 12 months.
A
senior Obama
official says the new
agency will monitor cybersecurity threats, pooling and analyzing information on a spectrum of diffuse risks.
Dickson's high - level policy - making seems to emanate from an ultra-exclusive bureaucratic club called the «heads of
agencies,» which includes the governor of the Bank of Canada, the heads of the provincial securities commissions and
senior Department of Finance
officials.
On December 13, 2017,
senior officials from a handful of South Korean government ministries and
agencies gathered for an emergency discussion regarding the cryptocurrency boom.
The missing AirAsia flight QZ8501 carrying 162 people to Singapore from Surabaya is thought to have crashed into the sea, a
senior Indonesian rescue
agency official told reporters on Monday.
The National Security
Agency is harvesting hundreds of millions of contact lists from personal e-mail and instant messaging accounts around the world, many of them belonging to Americans, according to
senior intelligence
officials and top - secret documents provided by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden.
On the eve of critical hearings on Capitol Hill, top White House
officials are intensifying efforts to document wasteful spending by Scott Pruitt as President Trump weighs whether to keep supporting his controversial Environmental Protection
Agency chief,
senior administration
officials said Wednesday.
Rich Barton participated in PAGE kick - off meetings in Washington, D.C., chaired by U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker that also involved President Obama and other
senior - level
officials from the U.S. Department of State and U.S.
Agency for International Development.
Webcast live, the invited audience included academics, other central bankers, private sector economists and financial market experts, labour union representatives,
senior officials from government departments and Crown
agencies, representatives from policy think tanks, and the media.
In that capacity, he served both as a
senior official within the department's terrorism and financial intelligence branch and as deputy chief of the Office of Intelligence and Analysis, one of sixteen U.S. intelligence
agencies coordinated under the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.
Dr. Ronny Jackson, the embattled pick to lead the Veterans Affairs
agency, will continue fighting for his nomination, according to
senior administration
officials, despite allegations of misconduct and hints from President Donald Trump that he could withdraw himself from contention.
Because of the surprising nature of the rollout, the administration wasn't able to notify
senior officials in multiple federal
agencies, State Department
officials who needed to notify other countries of the drastic measures, or lawmakers on Capitol Hill.
To support this, a reinvigorated Indonesia rice research work plan was drafted this week by
senior officials and leading scientists from the Indonesian
Agency for Agricultural Research and Development (IAARD) and the Philippines - based International Rice Research Institute (IRRI).
The proposal is based on the federal government's email retention policy and would create standards for permanent preservation of records generated by statewide public
officials, state lawmakers and those in
senior agency positions.
I want to work with the Environment
Agency, all the
senior officials there, including Lord Smith, to get the best result we can for the people who are facing this crisis.»
The Presidential Quarterly Business Forum is a platform for private sector / business leaders and groups to engage with
senior Government
officials (Ministers, Advisers, Heads of
Agencies) on a regular basis.
Embattled NYC Correction Commissioner Joseph Ponte, already under attack for his personal use of a city vehicle, told the NYC Council that
senior correction
officials had «inadvertently» conducted surveillance of the city
agency that investigates fraud and corruption.
The city's Department of Investigation is conducting a review of the firing of a
senior official who says he resisted the efforts of de Blasio and his aides to help a campaign donor in a multimillion - dollar lease dispute with a city
agency.
Florida Department of Law Enforcement Commissioner Rick Swearingen will serve as a member, and four other state
officials will serve as ex-oficio members: Florida Department of Education Commissioner Pam Stewart; Florida Department of Children and Families Secretary Mike Carroll; Florida Department of Juvenile Justice Secretary Christina Daly; and Florida
Agency for Health Care Administration Secretary Justin
Senior.
The development prompted a
senior official on Georgia's national security council to tell the Reuters news
agency the two countries were «very close» to war.
He said it wasn't until a local lawyer raised the matter with a
senior EPA
official that the
agency got involved and began warning residents.
In 2016, as federal investigators dug into allegations that de Blasio traded favors for political donations, a
senior official at a city
agency at the center of the probe was demoted and given a sharp pay cut.
Among other points of contention, health department employees dismissed an advisory limit for human consumption of PFOA set by the federal Environmental Protection
Agency, and argued that their differences with the federal authorities were a matter of «philosophy» and not just science, according to a
senior EPA
official's handwritten notes from a phone conference with state
officials.
In 2016, as federal investigators dug into allegations that Mayor Bill de Blasio traded favors for political donations, a
senior official at a city
agency at the center of the probe was demoted and given a sharp pay cut.
«We agree we don't want to alarm people,» Graber had said to
senior Environmental Protection
Agency officials on the call, according to notes taken by EPA Region 2 Administrator Judith Enck and obtained through a Freedom of Information request.
New York City Department of Correction Commissioner Joseph Ponte, already under attack for his personal use of a city vehicle, told the City Council on Monday that
senior correction
officials had «inadvertently» conducted surveillance of the city
agency that investigates fraud and corruption.
Senior officials at the New York City Housing Authority said the cuts were the largest decrease in funding the
agency has seen in five years.
Mr. Hoyt, who is also a
senior official at New York's economic development
agency, declined to comment.
BY DUNCAN OSBORNE A town hall meeting that featured
senior officials from the de Blasio administration showed that AIDS activists have reached a kind of détente with the city
agencies they were picketing not long ago.
At the time, Dressler recalls, a
senior NASA
official explained the
agency «would rather build the first of the next generation of telescopes rather than the last of the previous one.»
A
senior State Department
official, who agreed to speak to DISCOVER on the condition that his name remain out of print, recently left the
agency.
But in a senate report accompanying a bill covering NSF's 2010 budget that was approved last Thursday, legislators have harsh words both for the administrative skills of those
senior scientists and, more broadly, how the
agency has responded to a 2008 report by its independent inspector general that found that
senior officials were downloading and viewing pornography.
«This case perfectly illustrates why President Trump had to order executive
agencies to affirm religious freedom, because park
officials specifically targeted Dr. Snelling's religious faith as the reason to stop his research,» said Gary McCaleb,
senior counsel at the Alliance Defending Freedom, a Christian nonprofit advocacy and legal group that is representing Snelling in the suit.
That estimate was dismissed by
senior EPA
officials who said those costs were inflated and that the
agency would not use many studies to which the rule would apply, but they did not provide evidence, she said.
He could also be a stickler for protocol: In 2000, he reduced a
senior National Science Foundation
official to tears after barring her from a hearing because the
agency missed a deadline for submitting her testimony.
The need to balance «the legal prohibitions and the opportunities» of working with administrative records is a long - running issue for federal
agencies, says a
senior OMB
official, who agreed to talk with ScienceInsider on background.
One
senior EPA
official, who declined to be named because he was not authorized to speak publicly, says there is a void of reliable information within the
agency.
Whatever chilling effect the White House might project onto the climate issue, those
senior officials have given some cover to the career
officials in their
agencies, Femia said.