1. Issue an Ecosystem Management directive by September 1994. (2) The President should issue a directive that: ** establishes a national policy to encourage sustainable economic development and ensure sustainable ecosystems through ecosystem management; ** states that this policy will be carried out through collaboration between federal agencies and coordination with state, local, and tribal governments and the public; ** calls for phased-in implementation of a cross-agency ecosystem management process for federal actions, beginning with demonstration ecosystems selected by an Interagency Ecosystem Management Task Force. This process will be expanded, as appropriate, to include additional ecosystems and to establish suitable management scales for comprehensive ecosystem management; ** establishes specific overarching goals and general guidelines for the cross-agency ecosystem planning and management process; and ** directs agencies to interpret their existing authorities as broadly as possible to implement the ecosystem management policy and process.
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