A Review of the Biomonitoring of Environmental Status and Trends Program The Draft Detailed Program (1995) / Chapter Skim
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4 MANAGEMENT
4 MANAGEMENT
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The program's designers recognize the difficulty of developing a full-scale program design when there are so many scientific uncertainties; therefore, they have emphasized pilot and demonstration projects and other phased implementation strategies. The program components are shown in Figure 4-}.
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Management 49 .
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What follows is a brief discussion of management issues in the program and sections on administrative structure and personnel, partnerships, data management, outreach, program phasing, and cost effectiveness. Each section offers a brief evaluation of the draft detailed plan's presentation and recommendations (FWS, 1993~.
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Management o I_ C o ~o o 51 a)
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A general strategy for program unplementation is outlined in the draft detailed plan; it emphasizes training and learning through pilot projects. Personnel requirements are not specified in the detailed plan, so assessment of staffing needs, priorities, or costs was not addressed by the committee.
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n .- ...~ers.. ma o~ Hers : Box 4-1 The Herring Gull Program as an Analogize of Partnership Design of the Biomonitoring of Environmental Status and Trends Program
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In addition, the development of the program should include solicitation of systematic input from the NBS and other federal and state partners in the Initial program design. The current steenog committee of FWS personnel and the proposed advisory committee should be modified to include representatives of refuges, regional offices, the NBS leadership, and potential partners, such as other DO} agencies and non-DO} agencies, e.g., the U.S.
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55 _ ~ Headquarters offices of federal agencies in Washington, D.C., will need to be assertive about partnerships In biomonitoring programs if field staffs are to be secure in committing time to cooperative, rather than agency, programs. Critical signals to encourage field-staff participation In partnerships Include recognition in personnel evaluations and identification of partnership activities in annual work plans and budget submissions.
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The detailed plan sketches a process for incorporating external data that consists of datasource identification, screening, acquisition, and access. CIMAS is envisioned as providing a national clearinghouse for contaminant data not only to facilitate regional and national assessments.
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Internal communication is key to a well-planned ~nfonnation-dissemination system. Communication among branches, program managers, regional contaminant specialists, and legislative liaisons appears to be critical and appears to be implied throughout the draft detailed plan.
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Cooperative sampling and testing activities should be incorporated, as should collaboration on scientific papers across agency and other institutional lines. Recommendations The outreach component of the Biomonitonng of Environmental Status and Trends Program should provide for Insulation between outreach for scientific and programmatic purposes and activities focused on encouraging program support.
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Priority in pilot and demonstration projects conducted by FWS should be on problem identification on FWS trust lands. Doing so is logical in view of the probable lead role of the NBS in status-and-trend determinations for biological resources at the Department of Interior and in recognition of the much more difficult scientific and technical requirements for pilot projects that address status and trends on FWS trust lands, status and trends of key trust species, or population exposure and response.
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Synthesis of results from problem-identification, cause-effect, and later status-and-trends aspects of Me program also is essential to interpretation and effective application of program data and should be a high-pr~ority endeavor of the TRC. Timely publication of program data in technical literature and active participation in professional meetings by program personnel, ranging from field scientists to TRC staff, will be essential to the kinds of data- and idea-sharing and application and interpretation of results that can make the Biomonitonng of Environmental Status and Trends Program an exceptionally useful and technically successful program.
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The relative impacts of various contaminant sources are important cr~tena. The draft detailed plan identifies agricultural and military sources as prime common sources of toxic substances that affect wildlife and might well be included in early pilot efforts.
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lo ,, The further development of the program should include solicitation of systematic input from the NBS and other federal and state partners in initial program design, in contrast with the current Internal steering committee of FWS personnel. The process should Include external peer reviewers with specialized skills beyond those available to the National Research Council committee in considering design of the TRC.
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The early phases should concentrate on collection, management, and analysis of primary data collected by FWS with respect to contaminants on refuges and in trust species. Later phases should build up the capacity to foster data integration across scales and full development and use of data collection and data-shar~ng that involve other agencies and partners as necessary to meet the broad goals of the program.
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Recommendation 4-9: Initial efforts should be concentrated on collection, storage, and analysis of program-generated data on contaminants on refuges and in trust species. Outreach Recommendation 4-10: Field staffs concerned with toxic-substance effects should be encouraged to participate in forums established to seek integration of government and private natural-resource management of such regions as watersheds and ecosystems.
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