Open AccessForest Service Groundwater Plan Oversteps Bounds, Critics Say
Author(s) -
Showstack Randy
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
eos, transactions american geophysical union
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.316
H-Index - 86
eISSN - 2324-9250
pISSN - 0096-3941
DOI - 10.1002/2014eo380003
Subject(s) - directive , agency (philosophy) , government (linguistics) , plan (archaeology) , service (business) , groundwater , public administration , business , environmental resource management , environmental planning , political science , engineering , environmental science , geography , computer science , sociology , archaeology , marketing , philosophy , social science , linguistics , geotechnical engineering , programming language
The U.S. Forest Service (USFS) is at odds with some members of Congress and other critics about a proposed government directive on groundwater resource management. The USFS says the proposed directive is an innocuous internal measure to provide a consistent, systematic, and transparent agency‐wide approach to groundwater management. However, some participants in a 10 September congressional hearing questioned the directive, saying that the agency is overstepping its bounds.