Inventory describing formal agreements

An inventory describing formal agreements (e.g., contracts, memorandum of understanding) with external entities (e.g., partnerships with State and local governments, public libraries, industry and commercial search engines) complementing your access to and dissemination of government information to the public

U.S. Geological Survey (USGS)

1. http://www.usgs.gov/aboutusgs/working_with_us/partnerships.asp
2. http://www.usgs.gov/tech-transfer/partnership-opportunities-now.html
3. http://www.usgs.gov/mou/

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS)

1. On the FWS public site (http://www.fws.gov) search the term “MOUs”, which yields a few links to MOUs
2. http://usasearch.gov/search?query=MOU&submit=Search&v%3Aproject=firstgov&affiliate=fws.gov provides some links to MOUs.
3. ECOS (http://ecos.fws.gov/partners/viewContent.do?viewPage=home), which is developed and maintained via a contract; PDM contracts with the NBC for the database that offers FWS Federal Register Notices (http://www.fws.gov/policy/frsystem/default.cfm). 
4. ECOS Agreements at http://usasearch.gov/search?query=ECOS+Agreements&submit=Search&v%3Aproject=firstgov&affiliate=fws.gov
5. Other FWS Agreements at http://usasearch.gov/search?input-form=simple-firstgov&v%3Aproject=firstgov&query=FWS+Agreements&affiliate=fws.gov&x=32&y=18
6. Systran (http://www.fws.gov/scripts/systran-disclaimer-spanish.cfm); it is an outside company that provides automatic language translations (see the flags on the FWS hope page to get a particular translation). 
7. FWS contracts with an outside firm to answer calls from the public at 1-800-344-WILD (customer service).  That contract is described on a web page at:  http://www.fws.gov/info/pocketguide/fwscsc.htm
8. FWS Partnerships at http://usasearch.gov/search?input-form=simple-firstgov&v%3Aproject=firstgov&query=%22FWS+Partnerships%22&affiliate=fws.gov&x=37&y=19

Bureau of Reclamation (BOR)

1. Reclamation has no formal agreements with external entities which complement Reclamation access to and dissemination of government information to the public, with the exception of Reclamation office libraries.  Reclamation’s Denver and regional office libraries collectively are a participating institution with the Online Computer Library Center (OCLC), for which Reclamation augments the world-wide, publicly accessible reference catalogue, and makes available all of their non-sensitive publications via Inter-library Loan (ILL).  A link to the OCLC is given here for reference purposes only: http://www.oclc.org/

Bureau of Land Management (BLM)

1. On the BLM website http://www.blm.gov, search for the term “MOUs”, which yields 373 hits. Be advised that the significant majority of these are on pages that are slated for conversion into BLM’s content management system in the next 90 days. So the links may change.

National Park Service (NPS)

1. On the NPS website index http://www.nps.gov/siteindex.htm, search for the term “MOUs”, which yields 13 hits.

Minerals Management Service (MMS)

1. MMS public website describing partnerships with external entities http://www.mms.gov/offshore/Partnerships.htm

National Business Center (NBC)
Not Applicable

Office of Surface Mining (OSM)
Not Applicable