8-13-101. Purpose.

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8-13-101. Purpose.

8-13-101. Purpose. It is recognized that: (1) The improvement of the environment and the management of environmental concerns within the State of Arkansas are matters of interest to all citizens of this state; (2) Environmental protection and improvement could be enhanced by authorizing the Director of the Division of Environmental Quality to design and establish a management organization which incorporates specific goals for environmental protection and uses environmental indicators to measure agency performance; and (3) The director should execute a management process which: (A) Creates an integrated agency information system; (B) Organizes the Division of Environmental Quality according to business function; (C) Utilizes environmental indicators to measure progress in protecting and enhancing the environment; (D) Employs a collaborative public involvement process to define the environmental indicators to be used to measure environmental enhancement; and (E) Establishes a performance-based financial management system that links the funding of agency activities to environmental results.

Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 8-13-101

Stored review status: Historical 2020-11-06 source release; later amendments not reconciled; machine-extracted, not independently legally reviewed; source heading status: text_in_historical_source. A text match is a research starting point; applicability is not established.