1:00
Improving Congressional Oversight and the Evaluation of the Performance of Wildland Fire and Natural Resource Programs
Hon. Ken Calvert, Chairman, House Subcommittee on Water and Power
Hon. Jay Inslee, Ranking Member, House Subcommittee on Forestry and Forest Health

1:20
Overview of the Program Assessement Rating Tool Process Used in the FY05 Budget
Carl DeMaio, President, The Performance Institute

1:45
What the PART Has Told Us About the Performance of the Wildland Fire Program
Scott Dalzell, Budget Officer, Office of Wildland Fire Coordination, Department of Interior
Ben Burnett, Office of Management and Budget

2:30
Performance Evaluation and Wildland Fire: Reviews from NAPA
National Academy of Public Administration

3:45
Stakeholder Dialogue: How Can the PART and Other Oversight Tools be Used by Congress and Natural Resource Committees to Evaluate and Compare Program Performance
Moderated by Carl DeMaio, President, The Performance Institute

4:15
Adjourn

Listed speakers are confirmed.

This forum will focus on how the Wildland Fire Program has fared under a new evaluation system being used by the White House Office of Management and Budget: the Program Assessment Rating Tool (PART). Using the PART as a starting point, Executive and Legislative officials, external stakeholders and experts will dialogue on how to improve performance measures and subsequent evaluations applied to the federal wildland fire management program.

You are invited to help answer this question and explore how to improve Congressional oversight of the wildland fire program at the “Wildland Fire Performance Dialogue.”

To make this process fully effective, the Dialogue will feature a discussion between Congressional staff and forestry stakeholders on how to make the Wildland Fire program performance information available during the annual PART evaluation, budget and appropriations process, as well as to the American people. We hope you’ll join us for this unique opportunity to participate in an important discussion.