Consultations

The development of this Strategic Plan has been an interactive process involving public and employee involvement, stakeholder meetings, written comments, briefings, and discussions. A draft of the Strategic Plan was mailed to almost 300 key stakeholders. It was also made accessible on the USGS home page with a "hot button" allowing viewers to provide comments on-line, and notice was also placed in the Federal Register. We received written comments from other bureaus in the Department of the Interior, other Federal agencies, employees of the USGS, private corporations, the university community, environmental organizations and other non-governmental organizations, and private individuals. Comments on our programs were received during approximately 200 regular stakeholder meetings and were incorporated into the revised Plan. The Bureau Executive Leadership Team and other USGS managers also reviewed it extensively. These consultations for the most part supported the new simplified mission goals and the long-term goals. In response to comments and program evaluations, we added a customer satisfaction measurement to the mission goal performance measures and revised our performance measurement for real-time hazards.

USGS Senior Management Authors

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