RECOVER:
Leadership Group (RLG)
The RECOVER Leadership Group is responsible for coordinating and integrating the activities of the RECOVER technical teams and ensuring that the overall focus and direction of the implementation process remains consistent with the goals of system-wide restoration. Specifically, the leadership group will:
- Set overall priorities for RECOVER
- Make recommendations pertaining to the RECOVER budget
- Coordinate the application of available resources and personnel among the teams to best focus on priority tasks
- Review and revise the tasks and teams where needed to ensure that RECOVER meets its objectives
- Issue the annual report card
- Ensure appropriate public and agency review of RECOVER documents
- Refine the overall vision of success for the Comprehensive Plan.
The leadership group is a standing team consisting of the two RECOVER program managers from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the South Florida Water Management District plus one member from:
- Environmental Protection Agency
- National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
- U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
- U.S. Geological Survey
- National Park Service
- Miccosukee Tribe of Indians of Florida
- Seminole Tribe of Florida
- Florida Dept. of Agriculture and Consumer Services
- Florida Dept. of Environmental Protection
- Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission
Leadership Group Team Documents
- RECOVER Leadership Group (RLG) Policy Manual
Oct 2009 (544 kb, PDF) - RECOVER Document Approval Process Aug 2005 (106 kb, PDF)
- Baseline Report for the Comprehensive Plan May 2000 (1.3 mb, PDF)
RECOVER Executive Committee:
- David Tipple, USACE
David.A.Tipple@usace.army.mil - Susan Gray, SFWMD
sgray@sfwmd.gov - Matt Harwell, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Matthew_Harwell@fws.gov - Carol Mitchell, National Park Service
carol_mitchell@nps.gov
Contact for this page:
- Becky Burns, EPJV
Rebecca.E.Burns@usace.army.mil
