• US Forest Service
  

This amendment revises section 19 Resource Data Management only. Some minor editorial and format changes have been made; no other changes to the text of this chapter have been made.19.01 - Adds the Forest and Rangeland Renewable Resources Act of 1978, as amended, and theFood Security Act of 1985, as amended, as authorities that provide direction for managing theForest Inventory and Analysis Program.19.02 - Adds objectives for the administration of the Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA)Program, such as maintaining a uniform data delivery system at the State, Regional, and National levels; protecting the privacy of FIA data providers; providing cost effective customer access to FIA databases; and ensuring high quality, consistent, and reliable FIA databases. 19.03 - Revises policies and direction for the Forest Inventory and Analysis Program.19.04 - Adds responsibilities in paragraph 3 for research station directors to identify andauthorize external parties to conduct work in the FIA Program when the work is necessary forthe successful implementation of the FIA program and the use of an Authorized Agent is themost efficient manner in which to complete that task.19.05 - Sets out definitions for terms used in the FIA Program.19.1 - 19.13 - Provides direction on the documentation of authorized agent status (sec. 19.11),the role of an authorized agent (sec. 19.12), and access to confidential FIA information(sec. 19.13).19.2 - Provides direction and standards for collecting data in support of the FIA Program.19.3 - Provides direction and standards for ensuring data privacy.19.4 - 19.41 - Provides direction and standards for maintaining and releasing data associated withthe FIA Program.19.5 - 19.52 - Provides direction and standards for allowing data access for information used inthe FIA program.19.6 - Provides direction and standards for processing special requests for specific spatial ForestInventory and Analysis information.19.7 - Includes as exhibits Section 1770 of the Food Security Act of 1985 (ex. 01) and the ForestInventory and Analysis data access table guide by user group and data owner origin (ex. 02).