[Federal Register: December 22, 2005 (Volume 70, Number 245)]
[Notices]
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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
Department of the Navy
Nominations for Membership on Ocean Research and Resources
Advisory Panel
AGENCY: Department of the Navy, DoD.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: The Ocean Research and Resources Advisory Panel (ORRAP) is
soliciting nominations for new members.
DATES: Nominations should be submitted no later than February 3, 2006.
ADDRESS: Nominations should be submitted via E-Mail to LCDR Cory
Huyssoon, U.S. Navy, at huyssoc@onr.navy.mil.
Contact Information: Office of Naval Research, 875 North Randolph
Street, Suite 1425, ATTN: ONR Code 322B Room 1075, Arlington, VA 22203-
1995, telephone 703-696-4395.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dr. Melbourne G. Briscoe, Office of
Naval
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Research, 875 North Randolph Street, Suite 1425, Arlington, VA 22203-
1995, telephone 703-696-4120.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: ORRAP (originally known as the Ocean
Research Advisory Panel, ORAP) is a statutorily mandated Federal
advisory committee that provides senior scientific advice to the
National Oceanographic Research Leadership Council (NORLC), the
governing body of the National Oceanographic Partnership Program
(NOPP). ORAP advises the NORLC on policies, procedures, selection of
partnership projects and allocation of partnership funds, as well as
other responsibilities that NORLC considers appropriate. The
President's Ocean Action Plan (OAP), released December 17, 2004,
created a coordinated ocean governance structure, including the
Interagency Committee on Ocean Science and Resource Management
Integration (ICOSRMI). The OAP mandated that an expanded version of the
existing ORAP, including ocean resource management, would provide
independent advice and guidance to the ICOSRMI. Since the NORLC is
conducting its business through the ICOSRMI, ORRAP advises ICOSRMI to
meet its legislative obligations to the NORLC as well as its OAP
obligations.
Panel Member Duties and Responsibilities: Members of the panel
represent the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of
Engineering, the Institute of Medicine, ocean industries, state
governments, academia, and others including individuals who are eminent
in the fields of marine science and technology, marine policy, or
related fields, including ocean resource management and ocean-related
social sciences and socio-economics. Members are appointed for not more
than four years, and are not normally compensated except for travel
expenses and per diem while away from their homes in performance of
services for the panel.
The panel meets for at least one two-day public meeting per year,
but possibly meets three times per year, on dates agreeable by the
panel members; attendance at meetings is expected. Intercessional
activities not involving formal decisions or recommendations may be
carried out electronically, and the panel may establish sub-panels
composed of less than full membership to carry out panel duties.
Nominations: Any interested person or organization may nominate
qualified individuals (including one's self) for membership on the
panel. Nominated individuals should have extended expertise and
experience in the field of ocean science and/or ocean resource
management. Nominations should be identified by name, occupation,
position, address, telephone number, E-Mail address, and a brief
paragraph describing their qualifications in the context of the ORRAP
Charter (http://www.nopp.org/Dev2Go.web?id=221086). A
r[eacute]sum[eacute] or curriculum vitae should be included in the
nomination package.
Process and Deadline for Submitting Nominations: Submit nominations
via E-Mail to huyssoc@onr.navy.mil no later than February 3, 2006.
Nominations will be acknowledged and nominators will be informed of the
new panel members, which are ultimately selected and approved. From the
nominees identified by respondents to this Federal Register notice, the
ORRAP Nomination Committee will down select to a short-list of
available candidates (150 percent of the available open positions for
consideration). These selected candidates will be required to fill-out
the ``Confidential Financial Disclosure Report'' OGE form 450. This
confidential form will allow Government officials to determine whether
there is a statutory conflict between person's public responsibilities
and private interests and activities, or the appearance of a lack of
impartiality, as defined by Federal regulation. The form and additional
guidance may be viewed from the following URL address: (http://www.ethics.navy.mil/forms.asp#450
).
In accordance with section 7903 of title 10, United States Code,
and with DoD FACA regulations, the short-list of candidates will then
be submitted for selection by the Secretary of the Navy with approval
by the Secretary of Defense. In order to have the collective breadth of
experience in the panel and maintain full panel membership, six to
eight new candidates are expected to be selected with terms to begin in
July 2006.
The selection of new panel members will be based on the nominee's
qualifications to provide senior scientific and resource management
advice to the NORLC/ICOSRMI; the availability of the potential panel
member to fully participate in the panel meetings; absence of any
conflict of interest or appearance of lack of impartiality, and lack of
bias; the candidates' areas of expertise and professional
qualifications; and achieving an overall balance of different
perspectives and expertise on the panel.
Dated: December 12, 2005.
Eric McDonald,
Lieutenant Commander, Judge Advocate General's Corps, U.S. Navy,
Federal Register Liaison Officer.
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