[Federal Register Volume 75, Number 63 (Friday, April 2, 2010)]
[Notices]
[Page 16749]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2010-7080]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration


Federal Geospatial Summit To Provide Information on Upcoming 
Improvements To the National Spatial Reference System (NSRS), Including 
the Replacement of the North American Datum of 1983 (NAD 83) and the 
North American Vertical Datum of 1988 (NAVD 88)

AGENCY: National Geodetic Survey (NGS), National Ocean Service (NOS), 
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Commerce.

ACTION: Public meeting.

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SUMMARY: The National Geodetic Survey (NGS) will host a Federal 
Geospatial Summit to discuss the impact updating the National Spatial 
Reference System (NSRS) will have on federal government agencies by 
replacing the North American Datum of 1983 (NAD 83), the North American 
Vertical Datum of 1988 (NAVD 88), and other state and territorial 
island vertical datums. The proposed changes will affect the surveying, 
mapping, charting, and Geographic Information System (GIS) programs of 
federal government agencies, as well as those tribal, state, county, 
and municipal governments that have adopted the NSRS.

DATES: The public meeting will be held Tuesday, May 11 and Wednesday, 
May 12, 2010 from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.

ADDRESSES: The meeting location is the National Oceanic and Atmospheric 
Administration's (NOAA) Science Center and Auditorium, located at 1301 
East-West Highway, Silver Spring, Maryland 20910.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Requests for additional information 
should be directed to Christine Gallagher, Program Analyst, National 
Geodetic Survey (N/NGS1), 1315 East-West Highway, Silver Spring, MD 
20910; Phone: (301) 713-3231 x 105; E-mail: 
[email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Abstract

    In January 2008, NGS adopted a 10-year plan identifying the need to 
change the geometric and vertical geodetic datums of the United States 
to improve the efficient use of the NAVSTAR Global Positioning System 
(GPS). Continuing technological developments and enhancements in space-
based positioning, navigation, and timing systems by the United States, 
as well as in other international programs, including the Chinese 
global satellite navigation system COMPASS, the European Union's 
satellite navigation system GALILEO, and the Russian GLONASS 
(Global'naya Navigatsionnaya Sputnikovaya Sistema), will have a 
profound impact on the integration of Global Navigation Satellite 
System (GNSS) technologies with Federal surveying, mapping, charting, 
and GIS programs. In an effort to support these rapid changes in 
positioning technologies, NGS has adopted a plan to replace NAD 83 and 
NAVD 88, as well as other state and territorial island datums, with 
more contemporary geodetic reference systems, thereby reducing several 
significant impediments to the efficient use of these positioning and 
navigation systems. This meeting will serve as a forum to allow Federal 
geospatial program managers, technical specialists, and contractors to 
address the impacts of the planned changes, offer an opportunity to 
discuss these changes, and explain how NGS may provide training and 
technical assistance to ensure minimal technical and budgetary impacts 
resulting from these new systems.

    Dated: March 19, 2010.
Juliana P. Blackwell,
Director, Office of National Geodetic Survey, National Ocean Service, 
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
[FR Doc. 2010-7080 Filed 4-1-10; 8:45 am]
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