Environmental Protection Laws
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Environmental protection is an issue of enormous significance and interest to the American public. Most Americans are cognizant of environmental issues, as those issues apply to business and industry, and as those issues apply to individual and households. Most Americans, however, are unaware of the applicability of environmental law and environmental protection regulations to the activities of the United States Department of Defense, which, in turn, included the activities of all of the nation's armed forces. This submission describes a proposed research study which will examine the applicability of the nation's environmental protection laws and regulations to the activities of the Department of Defense.The application of environmental protection law and regulations to private industry and household occurs within an open public forum. All Americans, if the are interested, may gain access to such environmental assessment activities and decision making. With respect to the activities of the Department of Defense, however, national security concerns are often employed to deny public access to the environmental assessment activities and decision making concerning the application of environmental protection laws and regulations. Further, at times, national security concerns are also invoked as a justification for the lifting of all requirements for the Department of Defense to abide by environmental protection laws and regulations
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program goals and objectives, (2) identifying indicators of program success or failure, and (3) identifying casual relationships between program operation and program outcomes.3 The four principal criteria for program evaluation are as follows:
1. Effectiveness. Effectiveness in program evaluation refers to the performace of a program within the context of its stated objectives. An integral elements of this step in the evaluation process, therefore, is the identification of stated program objectives.
2. Efficiency. Efficiency in program evaluation refers to the relationship between the following factors:__________
2D. MacRae, Jr., and J. A. Wilde, Policy Analysis for Public Decisions, 3rd ed. (North Scituato, Massachusetts: Duxbury Press, 1989), 56.
3J. A. Gardiner, "Problems in the Use of Evaluation," in K. M. Dolbeare, (Ed.), Public Policy Evaluation, 4th ed. (Beverly Hills, California: Sage Publications, 1990), 206.
a. Program outcomes. Program outcomes are the results of the implementation of a program. Such results may or may not have been intended when the program was developed, or when it was implemented.
b. Costs incurred. The relevant costs are all costs incurred in obtaining the program outco
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