[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 15, Volume 3]

[Revised as of January 1, 2006]

From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access

[CITE: 15CFR950.7]



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                  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.