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.Amended by Act 2019, No. 910,§ 3019, eff. 7/1/2019.Amended by Act 2019, No. 910,§ 3018, eff. 7/1/2019.Acts 1999, No. gement system that links the funding of agency activities to environmental results.Amended by Act 2019, No. 910,§ 3019, eff. 7/1/2019.Amended by Act 2019, No. 910,§ 3018, eff. 7/1/2019.Acts 1999, No. 1316, § 1.
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