National Biological Survey (U.S.)

found: U.S. Cong. House. Comm. on Merchant Marine and Fisheries. National Biological Survey Act of 1993, 1993:t.p. (National Biological Survey) p. 4 (to est. the National Biological Survey as an independent, free-standing bureau at the Department of the Interior; NBS)

found: Northern Prairie Science Center (National Biological Survey). Publications available from Northern Prairie Science Center, Sept. 1994:p. 2 of cover (National Biological Survey; Jamestown, ND)

found: Phone call to Information Transfer Center, National Biological Service, Fort Collins, Colo., 6/26/95(National Biological Survey became National Biological Service, early 1995)

found: Federal Register: the daily journal of the United States government, website viewed May 2, 2016:National Biological Service page ("National Biological Service [i.e. Survey at that time] (NBS) was established on November 11, 1993 through the transfer of certain functions of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, National Park Service, Bureau of Land Management, Minerals Management Service, Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement, U.S. Geological Survey, and Bureau of Reclamation. The mission of NBS is to work with others to provide the scientific understanding and technologies needed to support the sound management and conservation of our Nation's biological resources.") - https://www.federalregister.gov/agencies/national-biological-service

found: What ever happened to the National Biological Survey?, in BioScience, viewed online May 3, 2016("NBS began official life on 1 October 1993 by secretarial order. ... On 5 January 1995, Secretary Babbitt issued Secretarial Order 3185, which changed the troubled agency's name to the National Biological Service.") - http://bioscience.oxfordjournals.org/content/49/3/219.full

found: Monitoring seabird populations in areas of oil and gas development on the Alaskan continental shelf, 1994: title page (Alaska Science Center, National Biological Service) [i.e. Survey. Cataloger's note: "Service" seems to be an error made possibly in anticipation of an announced name change, or perhaps the title page on this copy had been reprinted later with the updated agency name. The National Biological Survey did not become National Biological Service until January 5, 1995.]