Other Federal Focus Activities

In addition to the activities described in the Publications and Symposia sections, Federal Focus has engaged in the following types of projects:

• Budget and procurement training for federal personnel

• Seminars on economics and fiscal policy

• Assistance to federal agencies and the private sector in raising funding for, and coordinating, the exhibit on U.S. environmental technology at the 1992 Rio "Earth Summit"

• Briefings of Executive Branch officials on the "unfunded mandates" issue impacting state and local governments

• Participation in Executive Branch discussions leading up to Executive Order 12866 (on regulatory planning and review)

• Federal Focus also regularly presents public comments on science and science policy subjects such as:

  • Implementation of the National Environmental Education Act of 1990;

  • Draft report of the Presidential/Congressional Commission on Risk Assessment and Risk Management;

  • Proposed revisions to the EPA Cancer Risk Assessment Guidelines, and

  • Proposed revisions to the EPA Risk Characterization for Dioxin and Related Compounds.

• Jim Tozzi