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ASSISTANT SECRETARY - POLICY, MANAGEMENT AND BUDGET
The Assistant Secretary - Policy, Management and Budget (PMB) and Chief
Financial Officer (CFO) discharges the authority of the Secretary for all
phases of management, budget and other administrative activities and serves
as the principal policy advisor to the Secretary.
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Lynn Scarlett is Assistant Secretary of Policy, Management and Budget at
the Department of the Interior. Since taking her post at Interior in July
2001, Ms. Scarlett coordinates budget planning within the Department and
has helped the Department implement the President’s Management Agenda and
other key management initiatives. She serves as both the Chief Financial
Officer and Chief Human Capital Officer of the Department. She also helps
coordinate Department-wide environmental policy initiatives to implement
Secretary Gale Norton’s “4 C’s” vision of conservation through
cooperation, communication, and consultation.
From June 2003-2004, she chaired the Wildland Fire Leadership Council, an
interagency and intergovernmental forum for implementing the National
Fire Plan and 10-Year Implementation Plan. She co-chairs the Recreation
Fee Leadership Council, an interagency group to coordinate recreation fee
policy and practices. She serves on the Board of Trustees of the Udall
Foundation as the Department of the Interior representative.
Prior to joining the Bush Administration in July 2001, she was President
of the Los Angeles-based Reason Foundation, a nonprofit current affairs
research and communications organization. In addition to her management
role, her policy research focused on environmental, land use, and natural
resources issues.
Ms. Scarlett is author of numerous publications on incentive-based
environmental policies. She co-authored a report, Race to the Top: State
Environmental Innovations, which examines state environmental programs
that utilize incentives, private partnerships, and local leadership in
addressing environmental problems.
Ms. Scarlett served on President George W. Bush’s environmental policy
task force during his presidential campaign. She was appointed by former
Governor Pete Wilson to chair California’s Inspection and Maintenance
Review Committee, a position she held for 6 years. Ms. Scarlett served as
an Expert Panelist on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s
full-cost accounting and “pay-as-you-throw” projects. She served at the
request of former EPA Administrator William Ruckelshaus on the Enterprise
for the Environment Task Force, which examined new directions for U.S.
environmental policy.
Ms. Scarlett received her B.A. and M.A. in political science from the
University of California, Santa Barbara, where she also completed her
Ph.D. coursework and exams in political science and political economy.
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