New Executive Order on Cooperative Conservation

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

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[Federal Register: August 30, 2004 (Volume 69, Number 167)]
[Presidential Documents] 
[Page 52989-52990]
From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
[DOCID:fr30au04-149] 

Presidential Documents 

Executive Order 13352 of August 26, 2004
Facilitation of Cooperative Conservation

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the
laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered as follows:

Section 1. Purpose. The purpose of this order is to ensure that the
Departments of the Interior, Agriculture, Commerce, and Defense and the
Environmental Protection Agency implement laws relating to the
environment and natural resources in a manner that promotes cooperative
conservation, with an emphasis on appropriate inclusion of local
participation in Federal decisionmaking, in accordance with their
respective agency missions, policies, and regulations.

Sec. 2. Definition. As used in this order, the term "cooperative
conservation" means actions that relate to use, enhancement, and
enjoyment of natural resources, protection of the environment, or both,
and that involve collaborative activity among Federal, State, local, and
tribal governments, private for-profit and nonprofit institutions, other
nongovernmental entities and individuals.

Sec. 3. Federal Activities. To carry out the purpose of this order, the
Secretaries of the Interior, Agriculture, Commerce, and Defense and the
Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency shall, to the
extent permitted by law and subject to the availability of
appropriations and in coordination with each other as appropriate:

 (a) carry out the programs, projects, and activities of the agency that
they respectively head that implement laws relating to the environment
and natural resources in a manner that:

 (i) facilitates cooperative conservation;

 (ii) takes appropriate account of and respects the interests of persons
with ownership or other legally recognized interests in land and other
natural resources;

 (iii) properly accommodates local participation in Federal
decisionmaking; and

 (iv) provides that the programs, projects, and activities are
consistent with protecting public health and safety;

 (b) report annually to the Chairman of the Council on Environmental
Quality on actions taken to implement this order; and

 (c) provide funding to the Office of Environmental Quality Management
Fund (42 U.S.C. 4375) for the Conference for which section 4 of this
order provides.

Sec. 4. White House Conference on Cooperative Conservation. The Chairman
of the Council on Environmental Quality shall, to the extent permitted
by law and subject to the availability of appropriations:

 (a) convene not later than 1 year after the date of this order, and
thereafter at such times as the Chairman deems appropriate, a White
House Conference on Cooperative Conservation (Conference) to facilitate
the exchange of information and advice relating to (i) cooperative
conservation and (ii) means for achievement of the purpose of this
order; and 

 (b) ensure that the Conference obtains information in a manner that
seeks from Conference participants their individual advice and does not
involve collective judgment or consensus advice or deliberation.

Sec. 5. General Provision. This order is not intended to, and does not,
create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural, enforceable at
law or in equity by any party against the United States, its
departments, agencies, instrumentalities or entities, its officers,
employees or agents, or any other person.

(Presidential Sig.)B
THE WHITE HOUSE,
August 26, 2004.

[FR Doc. 04-19909
Filed 8-27-04; 11:31 am]




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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org

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