[Federal Register: August 5, 2008 (Volume 73, Number 151)]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
RIN 0648-XJ39
Unified Synthesis Product Development Committee
AGENCY: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of
Commerce.
ACTION: Notice of Open Federal Advisory Committee Meeting.
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SUMMARY: A major activity of the Climate Change Science Program (CCSP)
is the production of a series of twenty-one Synthesis and Assessment
Products (SAPs) that are designed to inform and aid decision making by
policy makers, resource managers, stakeholders, the media, and the
general public on issues related to global climate change. The Unified
Synthesis Product (USP) Development Committee (USPDC), established by a
Decision Memorandum on February 29, 2008, is the Federal Advisory
Committee charged with responsibility to develop a draft USP that will
synthesize the information contained in these 21 SAPs in the context of
other recent climate and global change scientific studies and formal
assessments.
DATES: The meeting will convene at 8 a.m. on Thursday, August 21, 2008
and adjourn at 5:30 p.m. on Friday, August 22, 2008. Meeting
information will be available online on the USPDC website:
(http://www.climate.noaa.gov/index.jsp?pg=./ccsp/unified_
synthesis.jsp).
Please note that meeting location, times, and agenda topics are subject
to change.
ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at the Erik Jonsson Center of the
National Academies in Woods Hole, Massachusetts.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dr. Christopher D. Miller, USPDC DFO
and the Program Manager, NOAA/OAR/Climate Program Office, Climate
Change Data and Detection Program Element, 1315 East-West Highway, Room
12239, Silver Spring, Maryland 20910; telephone 301-734-1241, e-mail:
Christopher.D.Miller@noaa.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Status: The meeting will be open to public
participation and will include a 30-minute public comment period on
August 21, 8 a.m. to 8:30 a.m. (check the USPDC website to confirm this
time and the room in which the meeting will be held). In general, each
individual or group making a verbal presentation will be limited to a
total time of five (5) minutes. Written comments (at least 35 copies)
should be received by the USPDC Designated Federal Official (DFO) by
August 7, 2008 to provide sufficient time for review. Written comments
received after August 7 will be distributed to the USPDC, but may not
be reviewed prior to the meeting date. Seats will be available to the
public on a first-come, first-served basis.
Matters to be Considered: The USP author team will consider all
peer review and public comments received during the USP First Draft
review phase, which ends on August 14, 2008. The authors will decide
how to address each comment, and plans for completion of the Final
Draft of the USP will be developed.
Dated: July 29, 2008.
William J. Brennan,
Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere, and
Director, Climate Change Science Program.
[FR Doc. E8-17960 Filed 8-4-08; 8:45 am]
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