[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 41 (Wednesday, March 2, 2011)]
[Notices]
[Pages 11427-11429]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-4562]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
National Climate Assessment Development and Advisory Committee;
Request for Nominations and Notice of Meeting
AGENCY: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration; Department of
Commerce.
ACTION: Request for nominations to the National Climate Assessment
Development and Advisory Committee; Notice of Public Meeting.
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SUMMARY: This notice requests nominations of qualified individuals for
the National Climate Assessment Development and Advisory Committee
(NCADAC) and advises the public of an upcoming meeting of the NCADAC,
pending final approval of its members. Individuals may self-nominate.
Nominations received will be evaluated and, if appropriate to the
overall composition of the committee, accepted. The NCADAC will meet on
April 4, 2011, from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.; April 5, 2011, from 8 a.m. to 6
p.m.; and April 6, 2011, from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m.
DATES: Nominations Deadline: Nominations must be received by March 16,
2011.
Public Comment Deadline: Public comments must be received by the
NCADAC Designated Federal Official (DFO) by 12 p.m. on March 31, 2011,
to provide sufficient time for distribution to the members prior to the
meeting. Written comments received after 12 p.m. on March 31, 2011,
will be distributed to the NCADAC, but may not be reviewed prior to the
meeting date.
NCADAC Meeting Date, Time and Location: The NCADAC will meet April
4-6, 2011, at the following times: April 4, 2011, from 9 a.m. to 6
p.m.; April 5, 2011, from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m.; and April 6, 2011, from 8
a.m. to 2 p.m.. The location will be in the metro
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Washington, DC, area and will be announced at http://globalchange.gov/what-we-do/assessment/notices. The meeting may have limited seating
capacity; seats are available on a first come-first served basis. For
more information about the meeting, see the SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION.
ADDRESSES: Responses to this request for nominations must be submitted
electronically at http://globalchange.gov/what-we-do/assessment/notices. Any member of the public who wishes to submit oral or written
comments should contact: Dr. Kandis Wyatt, the NCADAC Designated
Federal Official (DFO), NESDIS, SSMC1 Room 8330, 1335 East-West
Highway, Silver Spring, Maryland 20910; telephone (240) 429-0512, e-
mail: [email protected].
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Any member of the public wishing
further information concerning the meeting should contact: Dr. Kandis
Wyatt, the NCADAC Designated Federal Official (DFO), NESDIS, SSMC1 Room
8330, 1335 East-West Highway, Silver Spring, Maryland 20910; telephone
(240) 429-0512, e-mail: [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Federal Advisory Committee
The National Climate Assessment (NCA) is required by the Global
Change Research Act of 1990. The Secretary of Commerce has established
the NCADAC to produce a NCA that synthesizes and summarizes the science
and information pertaining to current and future impacts of climate
change upon the United States; and to provide advice and
recommendations toward the development of an ongoing, sustainable
national assessment of global change impacts and adaptation and
mitigation strategies for the Nation.
Once members are appointed, the NCADAC will work with assessment
staff, agencies and external experts to generate inputs to the
assessment process that come from a variety of sources--for example,
government observing systems, peer reviewed literature, and information
about existing social and physical stresses within regions and sectors.
The NCADAC is charged both with writing the report that is due to the
President and Congress, and with helping to build a permanent national
process to document changes in climate, its impacts and associated
global changes over time. Among the proposed approaches is establishing
a series of national indicators of change.
Through this Federal Register Notice, the Department of Commerce
solicits nominations for the NCADAC. Since the NCADAC will provide
advice about the process of assessment as well as write a report, a
very wide range of expertise is required. In considering potential
members of this committee, persons with the following types of
expertise were sought: Sectoral expertise, including the natural
environment, agriculture and forestry, energy, land cover and land use,
water resources, transportation, health, human social systems,
biodiversity, coastal and marine resources; systems expertise including
oceans, atmosphere, biogeochemical cycles, etc.; climate modeling,
climate impacts, atmospheric science, land use and land cover change;
assessment process experts, including people who are familiar with
economic assessment and valuation, vulnerability assessment,
adaptation, mitigation, and integrated assessment; international issues
and assessment components; data systems development and management;
communications, stakeholder engagement and public processes; urban
systems and infrastructure; homeland security; environmental justice
and cultural resources and indigenous perspectives. Persons with a
range of perspectives are sought, including people with experience in
private industry, state, local, and regional government, academia, and
non-governmental organizations, and drawn from a broad geographic
distribution.
Nominations must include a no more than two-page resume outlining
the qualifications, experience and education of the individual being
nominated, as well as a paragraph describing how the individual will
strengthen the ability of the committee to meet its charge, relative to
the charter for the NCADAC at http://globalchange.gov/what-we-do/assessment/charter and list of expertise requirements included in this
Federal Register Notice. Nominees should have the ability to work
effectively in a committee process, be prepared for a government
clearance review, and expect to dedicate significant time to NCADAC
activities. Members of the committee are not compensated for their
time, but their travel expenses associated with attending committee
meetings are reimbursed. Information obtained as a result of this
request may be used by the government for program planning on a non-
attribution basis. Do not include any information that might be
considered proprietary or confidential.
NCADAC Meeting
The NCADAC will meet on April 4-6, 2011, at the following times:
April 4, 2011, from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.; April 5, 2011, from 8 a.m. to 6
p.m.; and April 6, 2011, from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. During this public
meeting, the NCADAC will discuss initial plans for development of a
first draft of the NCADAC's Report to Congress and the President, as
well as advising on the development of the Assessment process.
The proposed approach to the Assessment and a draft outline of a
report to be prepared in 2013 was published in a Federal Register
Notice dated September 7, 2010, and available at http://www.globalchange.gov/what-we-do/assessment/. The Interim strategic plan
for the NCA is available at http://globalchange.gov/what-we-do/assessment/strategic-plan. The Charter for the Assessment was published
in a Federal Register Notice dated December 27, 2010, and is available
at http://globalchange.gov/what-we-do/assessment/charter.
The NCA outline will evolve over the coming months and years in
response to continued input from experts, peer review, and the public.
In the months after the first meeting of the NCADAC, another Federal
Register Notice will be issued that provides an updated outline and
timeframe for the NCA process.
There are multiple ways that the Assessment provides opportunities
for public comment and engagement. They include public meetings, an e-
newsletter that provides an update on Assessment activities every 6
weeks, a Web site that is regularly updated, and Federal Register
Notices.
Special Accommodations: These meetings are physically accessible to
people with disabilities. Requests for special accommodations may be
directed no later than 12 p.m. on March 30, 2011, to Dr. Kandis Wyatt,
the NCADAC Designated Federal Official (DFO), NESDIS, SSMC1 Room 8330,
1335 East-West Highway, Silver Spring, Maryland 20910; telephone (240)
429-0512, e-mail: [email protected].
Additional Information and Public Comments: The NCADAC meeting will
be open to public participation and will include a 30-minute public
comment period on April 5, 2011, from 9 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. (Please check
the www.globalchange.gov/what-we-do/assessment/notices Web site to
confirm this time). Each individual or group requesting to make a
verbal presentation will be limited to a total time of five (5)
minutes. If there are no prior requests to speak, or time remains in
the public comment period, there will be a call to the audience for
comments, limited to 5 minutes each. Written comments will also be
accepted and 50 paper copies as well as an electronic version should be
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received by the NCADAC Designated Federal Official (DFO) by 12 p.m. on
March 31, 2011, to provide sufficient time for distribution to the
members prior to the meeting. Written comments received after 12 p.m.
on March 31, 2011, will be distributed to the NCADAC, but may not be
reviewed prior to the meeting date. Seats will be available to the
public on a first-come, first-served basis.
Proposed Nominees to the NCADAC
Biographies of proposed nominees of the NCADAC are available at
http://globalchange.gov/what-we-do/assessment/proposedFACmembers.
Non-Federal
Daniel Abbasi, Mission Point Capital Partners
Dr. E. Virginia Armbrust, University of Washington
Dr. Rosina Bierbaum, University of Michigan
Maria Blair, Rockefeller Foundation
James Buizer, Arizona State University
Dr. Lynne Carter, Louisiana State University
Dr. F. Stuart Chapin III, University of Alaska
Dr. Camille Coley, Florida Atlantic University
Jan Dell, P.E., CH2MHill
Pl[aacute]cido dos Santos, Arizona Department of Water Resources (ret)
Guido Franco, California Energy Commission
Mary Gade, Gade Environmental Group, LLC
Dr. Aris Georgakakos, Georgia Institute of Technology
Dr. David Hales, College of the Atlantic
Dr. Mark Howden, Australian Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial
Research Organisation
Dr. Peter Kareiva, The Nature Conservancy
Dr. Kenneth Kunkel, North Carolina State University and NOAA
Cooperative Institute for Climate and Satellites
Dr. Rattan Lal, The Ohio State University
Dr. Arthur Lee, Chevron Corporation
Dr. Jo-Ann Leong, University of Hawai'i
Dr. Diana Liverman, University of Arizona and Oxford University
Dr. Edward Maibach, George Mason University
Dr. Jerry Melillo, Marine Biological Laboratory
Dr. Susanne Moser, Susanne Moser Research & Consulting, Stanford
University, and University of California-Santa Cruz
Dr. Richard Moss, Joint Global Change Research Institute, Pacific
Northwest National Laboratory and University of Maryland
Dr. Philip Mote, Oregon State University
Dr. Marie O'Neill, University of Michigan
Terese Richmond, Gordon Derr, LLP
Dr. Andrew Rosenberg, University of New Hampshire and Conservation
International
Dr. Richard Schmalensee, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Joel Smith, Stratus Consulting
Dr. Donald Wuebbles, University of Illinois
Dr. Gary Yohe, Wesleyan University
Federal Ex-Officio
Dr. John Balbus, Department of Health and Human Services
William Breed, U.S. Agency for International Development
Dr. Gary Geernaert, Department of Energy
Dr. John Hall, Department of Defense
Alice Hill, Department of Homeland Security (pending charter revision)
Dr. Len Hirsch, Smithsonian Institution
Dr. Patricia Jacobberger-Jellison, National Aeronautics and Space
Administration
Thomas Karl, Subcommittee on Global Change Research and National
Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Cathleen Kelly, White House Council on Environmental Quality and
Adaptation Task Force (pending charter revision)
Dr. Chester Koblinsky, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Linda Lawson, Department of Transportation
Dr. Robert O'Connor, National Science Foundation
Dr. Jonathan Pershing, Department of State
Dr. Michael Slimak, Environmental Protection Agency
Dr. Alan Thornhill, Department of the Interior
Dr. Margaret Walsh, U.S. Department of Agriculture
Dated: February 23, 2011.
Gary Locke,
Secretary of Commerce.
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