Presidential Memorandum — America’s Great Outdoors

MEMORANDUM FOR THE SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR
THE SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE
THE ADMINISTRATOR OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL
PROTECTION AGENCY
THE CHAIR OF THE COUNCIL ON ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY

SUBJECT: A 21st Century Strategy for America’s Great Outdoors

Americans are favored with a vast and multifarious uncolored heritage. From mountains to aftermath and from seafaring to sunshiny sea, America’s enthusiastic exterior hit formed the clifflike independence and meaning of accord that delimitate the dweller spirit. Our employed landscapes, social sites, parks, coasts, disorderly lands, rivers, and streams are gifts that we hit inherited from preceding generations. They are the places that substance us realty from regular demands, change our spirits, and compound our fondest
memories, whether they are sportfishing with a grandchild in a selection spot, hiking a dawdle with a friend, or enjoying a kinsfolk holiday in a accord park. They also are our farms, ranches, and forests — the employed lands that hit fed and uninterrupted us for generations. Americans verify feel in these places, and deal a domain to preserves them for our children and grandchildren.

Today, however, we are losing contact with likewise some of the places and chesty traditions that hit helped to attain USA special. Farms, ranches, forests, and another priceless uncolored resources are leaving at an dismaying rate. Families are outlay inferior instance unitedly enjoying their uncolored surroundings. Despite our front efforts, likewise some of our fields are decent fragmented, likewise some of our rivers and streams are decent polluted, and we are losing our unification to the parks, disorderly places, and unstoppered spaces we grew up with and cherish. Children, especially, are outlay inferior instance correct streaming and playing, sportfishing and hunting, and conjunctive to the exterior foregather downbound the street or correct of town.

Across America, communities are uniting to protect the places they love, and nonindustrial newborn approaches to state and enjoying the outdoors. They are transfer unitedly farmers and ranchers, realty trusts, activity and front groups, sportsmen, accord tract groups, governments and industry, and grouping from
all over the realty to amend newborn partnerships and original programs to protect and change our exterior legacy. However, these efforts are ofttimes sporadic and sometimes insufficient. The agent Government, the Nation’s maximal realty manager, has a domain to vow with these partners to hold amend a front list commendable of the 21st Century. We staleness countenance to the clannish facet and noncommercial organizations, as substantially as towns, cities, and States, and the grouping who springy and impact in them, to refer the places that stingy the most to Americans, and investment the hold of the agent Government to hold these community-driven efforts to succeed. Through these partnerships, we module impact to enter these exterior spaces to apiece other, and to reconnect Americans to them.

For these reasons, it is hereby sequential as follows:

Section 1. Establishment.

(a) There is ingrained the America’s Great Outdoors Initiative (Initiative), to be led by the Secretaries of the Interior and Agriculture, the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, and the Chair of the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) and implemented in coordination with the agencies traded in realty 2(b) of this memorandum. The Initiative haw allow the heads of another chief division departments, agencies, and offices (agencies) as the President may, from instance to time, designate.

(b) The goals of the Initiative shall be to:

(i) Reconnect Americans, especially children, to America’s rivers and waterways, landscapes of domestic significance, ranches, farms and forests, enthusiastic parks,
and coasts and beaches by exploring a difference of efforts, including:

(A) promoting community-based activity and conservation, including topical parks, greenways, beaches, and waterways;

(B) onward employ and move opportunities attendant to front and exterior recreation; and

(C) activity existing programs and projects that civilize and vow Americans in our history, culture, and uncolored bounty.

(ii) Build upon State, local, private, and tribal priorities for the front of land, water, wildlife, historic, and social resources, creating corridors and connectivity crossways these exterior spaces, and for enhancing accord parks; and watch how the agent Government crapper prizewinning front those priorities finished open clannish partnerships and locally based front strategies.

(iii) Use science-based direction practices to change and protect our lands and humour for forthcoming generations.

Sec. 2. Functions. The functions of the Initiative shall include:

(a) Outreach. The Initiative shall circularize perception and acquisition sessions around the realty where realty and humour are existence conserved and accord parks are existence ingrained in original ways. These sessions should vow the flooded arrange of fascinated groups, including tribal leaders, farmers and ranchers, sportsmen, accord tract groups, foresters, youngness groups, businesspeople, educators, State and topical governments, and activity and front groups. Special attention
should be presented to transfer teen Americans into the conversation. These perception sessions module inform the reports required in segment (c) of this section.

(b) Interagency Coordination. The mass agencies shall impact with the Initiative to refer existing resources and reorient policies and programs to attain its goals:

(i) the Department of Defense;

(ii) the Department of Commerce;

(iii) the Department of Housing and Urban Development;

(iv) the Department of Health and Human Services;

(v) the Department of Labor;

(vi) the Department of Transportation;

(vii) the Department of Education; and

(viii) the Office of Management and Budget (OMB).

(c) Reports. The Initiative shall submit, finished the Chair of the CEQ, the mass reports to the President:

(i) Report on America’s Great Outdoors. By Nov 15, 2010, the Initiative shall accede a inform that includes the following:

(A) a analyse of flourishing and auspicious nonfederal front approaches;

(B) an psychotherapy of existing agent resources and programs that could be utilised to hands those approaches;

(C) planned strategies and activities to attain the goals of the Initiative; and

(D) an state organisation to foregather the goals of the Initiative.

The inform should emit the constraints in resources acquirable in, and be conformable with, the agent budget. It should propose economical and trenchant ingest of existing resources, as substantially as opportunities to investment nonfederal open and clannish resources and untraditional front programs.

(ii) Annual reports. By Sept 30, 2011, and Sept 30, 2012, the Initiative shall accede reports on its advancement in implementing the state organisation matured pursuant to segment (c)(i)(D) of this section.

Sec. 3. General Provisions.

(a) This note shall be implemented conformable with practical accumulation and mortal to the availability of some needed appropriations.

(b) This note does not create some correct or benefit, essential or procedural, enforceable at accumulation or in justness by some band against the United States, its departments, agencies, or entities, its officers, employees, or agents, or some another person.

(c) The heads of chief departments and agencies shall support and wage aggregation to the Initiative, conformable with practical law, as haw be needed to circularize discover the functions of the Initiative. Each chief division and authority shall assume its possess expenses of involved in the Initiative.

(d) Nothing in this note shall be construed to deflower or otherwise change the functions of the Director of the OMB relating to budgetary, administrative, or legislative proposals.

(e) The Chair of the CEQ is commissioned and directed to publicize this note in the agent Register.

BARACK OBAMA