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- From: yee@atlas.arc.nasa.gov (Peter Yee)
- Subject: NASA and EPA Administrators sign agreement [Release 92-192] (Forwarded)
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- Organization: NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA
- Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1992 22:31:07 GMT
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- Bill Livingstone
- Headquarters, Washington, D.C. October 30, 1992
- (Phone: 202/453-1898)
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- RELEASE: 92-192
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- NASA AND EPA ADMINISTRATORS SIGN AGREEMENT
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- NASA Administrator Daniel Goldin and Environmental Protection
- Agency Administrator William K. Reilly today signed an agreement to broaden
- cooperation between the two agencies.
-
- It addresses environmental research, pollution monitoring and other
- activities where the research capabilities of NASA can support EPA's mission
- to protect the environment.
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- "This agreement renews NASA's commitment to safeguard the planet
- on which we live and to employ its technical expertise and experience to
- help solve problems here on Earth," said Goldin.
-
- EPA Administrator Reilly said, "I look forward to collaborating with
- NASA on environmental research and technology development. This
- agreement is going to bolster EPA's on-going efforts to monitor the health of
- our natural resources and the ecological systems that sustain us."
-
- "EPA's Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Program, for
- example, will especially benefit from this agreement. Our scientists use
- satellite imaging to secure the data we need to evaluate environmental
- conditions and trends, the effects of pollution and other information critical
- to making better decision," Reilly added.
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- The agreement pledges each agency to share information and facilities.
- It enables the exchange of personnel and joint development of research plans
- and projects.
-
- Subjects of likely cooperative activities include Earth and
- environmental science and measurements, pollution monitoring, global climate
- and environmental change, technology transfer, and aerodynamic and fuel
- efficiencies.
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- Agreement on specific cooperative activities will be detailed in the
- "Implementing Arrangements" authorized by the memorandum of
- understanding signed today.
-
- The first implementing arrangement is being drafted by scientists of
- the two agencies. In conjunction with NASA's Mission to Planet Earth and
- EPA's Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Program, the two agencies
- will establish a Joint Technical Working Group to identify and recommend
- projects in Earth and environmental science and measurements. These
- projects could address global environmental monitoring.
-