Interagency Ecosystem Management Task Force
concept
A government report called for a new task force to protect nature, but the real aim was to move money and decisions between agencies without anyone clearly in charge.
Who they are
The Council on Environmental Quality, which recommended the task force in its 1993 Annual Report.
What they do
The Interagency Ecosystem Management Task Force, set up to restore and maintain the health, sustainability, and biological diversity of ecosystems while supporting communities and their economic base.
How it works
The Council on Environmental Quality recommended creating the task force. The task force was meant to pick demonstration projects on ecosystem assessment and ecosystem management, paid for by cross-agency budgets. The record says the Council enabled the task force, but it does not say the Council directed or controlled its operations, or controlled its conclusions.
Why it matters
It shows how a body can be created to coordinate work across agencies while the question of who actually controls it is left open.
The engine's record — word for word
The corpus records: "Regardless, the Council on Environmental Quality , in their 1993 Annual Report , recommended the creation of the ‘ Interagency Ecosystem Management Task Force ‘ with a stated mission ‘To restore and maintain the health, sustainability, and biological diversity of ecosystems while supporting communities and their economic base.‘" Cross-sourced to clintonwhitehouse4.archives.gov — documents cited by the corpus and retrieved independently of it.
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