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Coordination 



The accomplishments we have realized in managing National Forest 

 System lands are the result of taking to heart President 

 Clinton's principle to "make the Federal Government work together 

 and work for the T^erican public." To facilitate this 

 coordination, the Federal agencies have developed the Northwest 

 Forest Plan Interagency Cooperation Structure. Part of this 

 structure facilitates the Northwest Economic Asisistance 

 Initiative that I described earlier, the other part of the 

 coordination structure is in place to facilitate forest ecosystem 

 management . 



Unlike the State Economic Assistance teams, the interagency 

 ecosystem management committees are advisory and chartered under 

 the Federal Advisory Committee Act. The interagency groups were 

 established by Memorandiun of Understanding. The Interagency 

 Steering Committee (ISC) is based in Washington D.C. and includes 

 representation from the subcabinets of the Secretaries of the 

 Interior, Agriculture, cmd Commerce and the Administrator of the 

 Environmental Protection Agency, and it establishes overall 

 policies for the forest plem. The Regional Interagency 

 Executive Committee (RIEC) serves as the senior regional body 

 coordinating emd implementing the Forest plcui. Advising the RIEC 

 is the Intergovernmental Advisory Committee (lAC) , ensuring a 



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