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Re: USDA's 5-Year Plan?
I am glad Teresa and Jill beat me to the punch in responding to your query.
Let me just correct that Juli Baker's email address is jb2cra@maqs.net.
At 05:27 PM 6/7/96 -0400, you wrote:
>Dear Sanettists:
>
>I've been reading GAO's most recent take on USDA (_Agricultural Research:
>Information on Research System and USDA's Priority Setting_, March 1996,
>GAO/RCED-96-92, available on the Web and by mail), and it refers (p.50) to
>the development of a 5-year strategic plan for USDA-supported research. The
>agency involved is the USDA Research, Education, and Economics mission area.
>The draft was supposed to be completed by last March, and an "extensive
>review process" was then to start.
>
>Has anybody heard about this draft? This is the first I've heard, and
>ordinarily I'd expect to see some back-and-forth on it, since sustainable ag
>research is, or should be, a big part of all this. (Just as I hope to see
>plenty of discussion about the National Research Council's recently-released
>"prepublication" edition of _Colleges of Agriculture at the Land Grant
>Universities: Public Service and Public Policy_.)
>
>Anybody know about the strategic plan?
>
>--Fred Powledge
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>Fred Powledge. Route 3, Box 549, Hollywood, Maryland, U.S.A., 20636
>fpowledg@eagle1.eaglenet.com Telephone: 1 (301) 373-5466
>Facsimile: 1 (301) 373-3788 CIS: 76556,13
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