A plan dealing with the reorganization of federal agencies involved with environmental protection, safety, and emergency response. (Volumes I and II)

This paper proposes reorganization of a number of federal agencies responsible for environmental protection, safety, and emergency response. Included are departments, agencies and portions thereof, independent agencies and commissions, integrating them under one or two new cabinet level departments called the Department of Environmental Resources and/or the Department of Emergency Response. Investigation of the modern origins of these proposals is identified with ideas and views as to why the Executive is expanding and what has to be accomplished to control and produce more efficient government operations and greater accountability to the public at less cost. This proposal suggests that top down enforcement of Codes of Federal Regulations, as well as combining of certain codes under a single titled area, will reduce public antagonism for those codes helping to reduce accident loss. The development of inter-agency management boards creating a vehicle for combining like entities within the individual offices of the agencies listed, is an attempt to produce greater coordination of similar government operations. This proposal is carried over to all field offices under a single command structure evolving towards combining into new unit development areas involving multiple government operations under the heading of resource management. With this type of organizational change Congressional policy development and agency implementation, including follow up, should be less cumbersome and more in tune with operations at state level moving towards providing improved service to the community. The study and investigation of these areas considers an extensive look through literature, government commissions, and the writings of several presidents of the United States, who all believed reorganization of the Executive an important issue in dealing with public policy and the greater participation of the general public.