[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 15, Volume 3]
[Revised as of January 1, 2004]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 15CFR950.7]

[Page 291]
 
                  TITLE 15--COMMERCE AND FOREIGN TRADE
 
CHAPTER IX--NATIONAL OCEANIC AND ATMOSPHERIC ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT 
                               OF COMMERCE
 
PART 950_ENVIRONMENTAL DATA AND INFORMATION--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 950.7  Center for Environmental Assessment Services (CEAS).

    EDIS assists National decisionmakers in solving problems by 
providing data analyses, applications, assessments, and interpretations 
to meet their particular requirements. Many of these services are 
provided by the EDIS Center for Environmental Assessment Services 
(CEAS).
    (a) The following are examples of CEAS projects and services:
    (1) CEAS prepares data-based studies and weekly assessments of 
potential effects of climatic fluctuations on National and global grain 
production.
    (2) CEAS provides environmental analyses and assessments to support 
efficient and effective planning, site selection, design, construction, 
and operation of supertanker ports and offshore drilling rigs. Such 
planning depends heavily upon environmental assessments.
    (3) During the heating season, CEAS issues monthly and seasonal 
projections of natural gas demand for multi-State regions of the 
conterminous United States. Similar projections are made for electricity 
during the cooling season.
    (4) CEAS has developed and makes available when needed a statistical 
oil spill trajectory risk model based on historical meteorological and 
oceanographic data.
    (5) The center has analyzed the potential ecological effects of the 
planned disposal of huge volumes of saturated brine into Gulf waters for 
the National Strategic Petroleum Reserve and may be called on to provide 
similar services in other subject areas.
    (6) CEAS provides experiment design, data analysis, and data 
management support to project managers and produces merged, validated 
multidisciplinary data sets for international and national study (such 
undertakings as the recent key role in the Global Atmospheric Research 
Program (GARP) experiments).
    (7) CEAS provides special data or information as required. Currently 
the Center is assembling an inventory of cruises and a global 
oceanographic data base from observations taken during the First GARP 
Global Experiment (FGGE).
    (b) Additional information on these or related services can be 
obtained by writing: Director, Center for Environmental Assessment 
Services, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Washington, 
DC 20235; or by calling (202) 634-7251.