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I appear before you today as an ex-bureaucrat. Consequently, I am able to tell you about risk and uncertainty and how it affects, or does not affect, decisionmaking in the Federal Government. I can finally tell it like it really is—without thoughts of loyalty to my former employer, the Federal Government. I plan to lay it all out and be the Jack Anderson on risk and uncertainty in Federal decisionmaking.

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Eisel, L.M. (1981). Uncertainty: The Water Resources Decisionmaking Dilemma. In: Haimes, Y.Y. (eds) Risk/Benefit Analysis in Water Resources Planning and Management. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-2168-0_2

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