ORIGINAL CEQ-FCST 

 TERMS OF REFERENCE 



Members 



A number of Federal programs depend on understanding the 

 functioning of ecosystems and the ways in which their functioning is 

 affected by man's activities, deHberate or inadvertent. There is a need 

 to focus Federal programs on important and urgent ecological 

 problems in order to assure that such programs are adequate and to 

 prevent duplication. The Committee will concentrate on issues of 

 concern to agencies responsible for environmental management and 

 regulation. The Committee will concentrate on natural systems, rather 

 than intensively managed land, water and urban areas. 



This Ad Hoc CEQ-FCST Committee on Ecological Research should 

 provide recommendations to the Chairmen to the Federal Council for 

 Science and Technology and the Council on Environmental Quality in 

 the following areas: 



1. Means of interagency coordination where required. 



2. Strengthening of the ecological basis for regulatory actions, for 

 land and water management, and for land use allocation. 



3. Development of a long-range research program with the 

 objective of strengthening the science of ecology and its 

 predictive capability. 



This committee should prepare an inventory of the research and 

 development needs and opportunities of the Federal agencies and 

 departments and the justification for these needs. It should indicate 

 which are being satisfied by industry (recognizing there has been little 

 incentive for support of ecology in the private sector), which are 

 supported by the agencies of government, and which are unsatisfied. 

 The committee should suggest an interim research and development 

 program, appropriately distributed among the departments and 

 agencies, to meet these and other opportunities. The committee will be 

 terminated upon submission of a final report. 



Department of Agriculture 



Department of Commerce 



Department of Defense 



Department of Health, Education, and Welfare 



Department of the Interior 



Department of Transportation 



Atomic Energy Commission 



Council on Environmental Quality 



Environmental Protection Agency 



Federal Council for Science and Technology 



National Aeronautics and Space Administration 



National Science Foundation 



Office of Management and Budget 



Smithsonian Institution 



Summary and Extension of Remarks of 



Dr. Edward E. David to the FCST-CEQ 



Ad Hoc Committee on Ecological Research 



I would like to express my appreciation for the opportunity to meet with 

 your Committee on February 25, 1 972, and present you with my general 



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