Sentences with phrase «which oversees»

OMB's role in the budget process does not end when Congress passes and the President signs the annual appropriations bills (or, in more recent years, the continuing resolutions to provide funding for a limited period of time after the fiscal year until the appropriations bills are agreed upon).195 OMB is intimately involved in budget execution — the way federal agencies carry out their work under the budgetary authority they have been granted.196 OMB affects budget execution through two different levers: the formal specification lever, through which it «apportions» and otherwise defines how agencies spend the funds Congress has appropriated, and the informal monitoring lever, through which it oversees agencies» implementation of their programs.

Great Britain's Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA), which oversees fertility treatments and embryo research in that nation, recently approved fertility procedures that would amount to the genetic engineering of children through cloning (nuclear transfer) technology and germ - line modification, resulting in a «three - parent embryo» that would have genetic material from two mothers and one father.

The Human Microbiome Project offers an opportunity to transform our understanding of the relationships between microbes and humans in health and disease,» said Dr. Alan Krensky, the director of the Office of Portfolio Analysis and Strategic Initiatives (OPASI), which oversees the NIH Roadmap for Medical Research.

Last year, the National Nanotechnology Coordination Office, which oversees day - to - day operations of NNI, asked the U.S. National Research Council (NRC) for an independent review of NNI's EHS strategic plan.

«Properties of minerals differ between mines, so we aim to establish the optimal methods to produce high - quality rare - earth products,» says Yoshiaki Igarashi, chief representative of the Hanoi office of the Japan Oil, Gas and Metals National Corporation, which oversees the new centre.

According to Bruce Margon, the associate director for science at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, which oversees Hubble operations, 8 percent of all papers published in the top five astronomy journals in 2002 were based on Hubble results - more than twice as many as any ground - based telescope.

But when two groups in the United Kingdom applied to that country's Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA), which oversees embryo research, officials decided they needed a thorough review of the overall approach.

The trip, officially the Interdisciplinary Climate Change Expedition, is made possible by a five - year research permit from the U.S. Forest Service, which oversees this wilderness.

There is an organization called the Joint IED Defeat Organization in the Pentagon, in the U.S. Military, which oversees research into counter IED and in particular technology and technology - related research into counter IED and they are spending several billion dollars a year, at this point; and there is...

Gordon de Brouwer, secretary of the federal Environment Department, which oversees AAD, told scientists and support staff on 8 April that the division, based near Hobart, Tasmania, also faces an unspecified number of «voluntary» job losses.

«We hope they will take this [report] into account,» Bobrow says, and establish better cooperation between the U.K. Home Office, which regulates animal research, and the Department of Health, which oversees research with human subjects.

Opponents have written hundreds of letters to the US Bureau of Land Management, which oversees the area, petitioning for the race to be stopped or moved elsewhere.

Research and development at the Office of Fossil Energy — which oversees carbon capture development — would see a cut of $ 33 million, to $ 635 million, but would receive funding much higher than President Trump's request.

Last week, the Foundation on Economic Trends, which is headed by the long - time critic of genetic engineering Jeremy Rifkin, filed a legal petition with the US Department of Commerce, which oversees the patent office, to block further animal patents.

The Fed, which oversees the nation's monetary policy and sets interest rates, said U.S. currency is not a very effective transmission agent for germs.

Obey has long been a member of (and now chairs) the Labor, Health and Human Services, Education Subcommittee, which oversees the budget of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

The Health and Human Services Department, which oversees CDC, and the USDA, which runs APHIS, agreed with many of these recommendations, according to the report.

Doctors Without Borders, which oversees many Ebola clinics in west Africa, is sending home recovered Ebola patients with a stack of condoms, and health workers are urging them to only engage in protected sex for at least three months after recovery.

As a result, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) established the Recombinant DNA Advisory Committee, which oversees genetic engineering.

The star names were officially recognized by the International Astronomical Union, which oversees the naming of objects in space, and announced on December 11.

The secret court order was granted by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court in Washington DC, which oversees surveillance requests.

The vagus nerve controls the parasympathetic nervous system, which oversees elements of many unconscious body functions, including digestion and circulation.

But both Jorge and Alves say they don't expect a fundamental change of line from the current coalition government, which oversees FCT's policies.

General John Kelly of the US Southern Command, which oversees US military operations in South and Central America, warned this week that if Ebola epidemics break out in that region, people may run for the US.

The metal in the glove — used to protect those handling radiological materials such as plutonium — likely acted as a catalyst for a chemical reaction generating heat, said Wirth, chairman of the committee, which oversees the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant.

She specifically named Rep. John Culberson, a Republican congressman from Texas, who chairs the House Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science and Related Agencies, which oversees NASA, the National Science Foundation and related agencies.

They're not surprising findings, but the National Science Board, which oversees the National Science Foundation (NSF), says it chose to leave the section out of the 2010 edition of the biennial Science and Engineering Indicators because the survey questions used to measure knowledge of the two topics force respondents to choose between factual knowledge and religious beliefs.

I definitely had a few things to learn, and, being the newest kid on the departmental block, I got tapped on the shoulder to be the representative from Cell Biology and Anatomy on the Graduate Council, which oversees graduate studies at OHSU.

The Fish and Wildlife Service, which oversees the Endangered Species Program, dismisses such charges.

The rules were accepted last month by the University Grants Commission of India (UGC India), which oversees higher education, and are binding for all universities.

«We would vigorously oppose such a change,» says David Goldston, staff director for the House Science Committee, which oversees NSF programs, although he emphasized that the committee had not been told anything.

The preliminary findings by Wyka and other officials assembled by the U.S. Energy Department, which oversees the plant, came during a public meeting in Carlsbad, New Mexico on Wednesday.

«Obama also tapped physicist Cherry Murray of Harvard University to become the head of [DOE's] Office of Science, which oversees a $ 5 billion physical science research portfolio.»

Among Goel's major funders is the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), which oversees one of the world's largest nuclear cleanups following 45 years of producing nuclear weapons.

«Many questions still remain,» said Senator Debbie Stabenow (D — MI), the senior Democrat on the Senate Committee on Agriculture, which oversees USDA.

Conservation International and the International Union for Conservation of Nature have developed the Blue Carbon Policy Framework, with the objective to integrate blue carbon activities into the policy and financial work of the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change, which oversees international work to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Both the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) and the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (MHLW)(which oversees the NIHS) have invested in projects in nanotechnology in biological systems.

In 2000, the US government's Bureau of Land Management (BLM), which oversees the land where the mummy was found, decided against repatriation.

According to Bill Hare, founder and CEO of Climate Analytics, which oversees the Climate Action Tracker to monitor countries» measures, all of the INDCs released so far, which account for about a third of global emissions, are in what he calls the «medium» ambition range.

Sen. Ted Cruz (R - Texas), another climate skeptic, is in line to take the helm of the Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee's Science and Space Subcommittee, which oversees both the National Science Foundation and the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.

Future resources from the NCI Center for Cancer Genomics (CCG), which oversees TCGA and other activities, will support more translationally focused research, including databases with genomic information on clinical samples linked to outcomes of their patient donors.

The Department of Health and Human Services, which oversees the CDC, did not immediately respond to Scientific American's request for comment.

But the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (which oversees NIOSH and NCI) mistakenly submitted applications to a different committee.

The lifelong oilman now leads the State Department, which oversees international climate change negotiations, programs to alleviate energy poverty and environmental treaties

Galaxy Zoo has since morphed into the larger Zooniverse, which oversees more than 380,000 volunteers engaged in a variety of astronomical projects.

«NIH has to make decisions on how to spend its research dollars regardless of what others may think,» says Constantine Stratakis, the scientific director of the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), which oversees the lab in question.»

Presently serving as Hempstead Town presiding supervisor, a post in which she oversees beaches and pools, Murray is a key player in a Republican Party machine whose fixes and favor - dispensing are coming increasingly into view.

NEW YORK CITY — The city's Civilian Complaint Review Board, which oversees the NYPD, tapped its top prosecutor to lead it, officials announced Monday.

Henry is referring to the Bloomberg administration's executive budget proposal, which includes a $ 75 million cut to the city's Human Resources Administration, the agency which oversees social services for those living with HIV and AIDS.

Mark Esper, the Secretary of the Army, toured the arsenal along with the senior military leaders from the Army Materiel Command, which oversees the sprawling cannon - making facility.