Despite widespread exposure to risk, relatively few respondents report board-level oversight of their water policies, strategies or plans (39%), and even fewer report setting concrete targets or goals (30%).
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Many committees choose to focus on asset allocation strategy and high level oversight and delegate the implementation and manager selection to an internal investment office or an outside advisor.
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Despite all of this, the percentage of companies disclosing water information through CDP has stagnated, there has been little increase in the companies citing board level oversight of water and a third of businesses are unable to state whether water poses a risk to their supply chains.
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Clearly the electorate believes the current level of oversight to be inadequate or at best inadequately enforced.
Some wickedly irreverent comments were offered about the pathetic level of oversight by the guardians of financial propriety.
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But, at a higher level, the AP Twitter hack might suggest a new level of oversight is necessary by regulators.
Chastened, the Swiss agreed to collect withholding taxes on American accounts and gradually increased the level of oversight the U.S. Treasury has had into their banks.
When in 1978 Congress and the President enacted the Inspector General Act, they were introducing a new and important level of oversight to the Executive Branch.
As a practical matter, pressing forward at breakneck speed on five different agreements is unsustainable given present governmental personnel resources and expertise and limited opportunities for senior-level management oversight.
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While the vast majority of returns are prepared by those not currently regulated nationally, three categories of preparers do experience some level of oversight: CPAs, Attorneys, and Enrolled Agents.
At the outset market participants were uncertain as to what level of oversight the SEC would seek to exercise and how much, as a practical matter, could be learned from pre-marketing.
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It is on this topic where the supporters groups need to be brutally honest with MLS. Are they adamantly opposed to any type of licensing, or would they be willing to consider some level of licensing oversight on their part?
The Intelligence Oversight Board (IOB) was created in 1976 by President Ford in response to recommendations made by the Rockefeller Commission calling for a Presidential-level body with specific oversight responsibilities for the legality and propriety of US intelligence activities.
Strong technical oversight is required to confirm the level of risk.
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Nor does increased internal and external oversight and regulation appear to have decreased the level of risky or illegal behavior in banks.
"FDA may do some inspections, but we have limited resources to inspect produce operations and we have a clear direction from Congress to collaborate with state agencies so we expect much of the oversight to come at the state and local level, " Taylor said.
At least three Congressional panels are planning hearings, and House oversight committee chairman Representative Darrell Issa said he had asked five mid-level IRS employees be made available for questioning.
So there have been administration-level briefings between administration officials and the agencies that are involved in the action and their oversight committees.
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Pat Leahy, D-Vermont, said he has been in close touch with Sullivan and believes the agency director is taking "serious action" to investigate the incident, while House Oversight Committee Chairman Rep. Darrell Issa, R-California, said he has a high level of confidence in Sullivan.
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