Functional Area: Relationship with Customers and Other Stakeholders
Action Item 3
Revise Reclamation’s centralized policy development process to require appropriate incorporation of the Secretary’s 4C’s, transparency, and value into Reclamation Manual (RM) policies, directives, and standards.
Team Leader: Jim Kinney, Policy Analyst, Water and Environmental Resources Office, Office of Program and Policy Services
Team members:
- Trudy Harlow (retired, during June 2006, Chief, Public Affairs Office)
- Kip White, Public Affairs Specialist, Commissioner’s Office
- Miguel Rocha, Program Specialist, Office of Program and Policy Services
Objectives:
- Officially incorporate the following principles and associated values into the collaborative development process for Reclamation policy:
- Decentralized implementation.
- Corporate requirements to be applied consistently throughout Reclamation.
- Transparency in development and management of RM requirements.
- Centrally-developed Reclamation-wide requirements developed collaboratively for Appropriate and beneficial communication with those entities external to Reclamation who may be affected by RM requirements.
- Clear and concise roles and responsibilities and well-defined decision making processes for both developing and applying RM requirements.
- Identification of the value and benefits associated with each RM release.
- Revise existing RM Directives and Standards, RCD 03-01, Reclamation Directives Management System to incorporate specific principles and values.
- Develop a RM Policy to reaffirm the Commissioner’s vision for establishing, managing and communicating mandatory Reclamation-wide requirements.
- Develop a RM D&S that establishes official processes to both request a waiver from a RM requirement, and approve/disapprove requests.
- Have the three documents described above reviewed by the Reclamation Leadership Team and revised as necessary.
- Have the Policy and D&S described above approved by the Commissioner and appropriate SES staff and officially released into the RM.
- May 2006: In response to Team 3’s final recommendations, the Acting Commissioner issued a memorandum on May 30, 2006, directing the Director of the Office of Program and Policy Services (OPPS) to:
“… issue the three following Reclamation Manual documents:
- Mandatory Reclamation-wide Requirements and the Directives System (the Reclamation Manual),
- Managing the Reclamation Manual,
- Request for Waiver from a Reclamation Manual Requirement and Approval/Disapproval of the Request”.
- June 2006: Released final, approved RM documents.
Products: (If you would like to provide comments on any draft products, visit the Draft Products page.)
Last Updated: January 10, 2007