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SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Scoping Meetings
The meetings have been scheduled
for:
1. Wednesday, March 16, 2011:
Escambia County Central Office
Complex, 3363 West Park Place,
Pensacola, FL. This is across the street
from the Escambia County Health
Department at 1295 West Fairfield Drive
in Pensacola, FL.
2. Thursday, March 17, 2011: Bay
County Government Center, County
Commissioner Chambers, 840 W. 11th
Street, Panama City, FL.
3. Monday, March 21, 2011: The
Donald Snyder Community Center,
Main Floor, 2520 Pass Rd., Biloxi, MS.
4. Tuesday, March 22, 2011: Belle
Chasse Public Library, 8442 Highway
23, Belle Chasse, LA.
5. Wednesday, March 23, 2011: Five
Rivers—Alabama’s Delta Resource
Center, 30945 Five Rivers Blvd.,
Spanish Fort, AL.
6. Thursday, March 24, 2011: HoumaTerrebonne Civic Center, 346 Civic
Center Blvd., Houma, LA.
7. Monday, March 28, 2011: The
Grand Isle Community Center, 3811
Highway 1, Grand Isle, LA.
8. Tuesday, March 29, 2011: Holiday
Inn, 520 Roderick St., Morgan City, LA.
9. Wednesday, March 30, 2011: Port
Arthur Civic Center, 3401 Cultural
Center Drive, Port Arthur, TX.
10. Thursday, March 31, 2011: Texas
A & M at Galveston Ocean and Coastal
Studies Building, Seawolf Parkway,
Bldg. 3029, Galveston, TX.
11. Monday, April 4, 2011: U.S.
Department of Commerce, Herbert
Hoover Bldg. Auditorium, 1401
Constitution Ave., NW., Washington,
DC.
National Marine Fisheries Service
(NMFS), National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),
U.S. Department of Commerce is the
lead agency for the preparation of the
PEIS on behalf of United States
Department of the Interior (on behalf of
the Fish and Wildlife Service, the
National Park Service, the Bureau of
Land Management and the Bureau of
Indian Affairs) (‘‘DOI’’); the Louisiana
Coastal Protection and Restoration
Authority, the Louisiana Oil Spill
Coordinator’s Office, the Louisiana
Department of Environmental Quality,
the Louisiana Department of Wildlife
and Fisheries, and the Louisiana
Department of Natural Resources, for
the State of Louisiana; the Mississippi
Department of Environmental Quality,
for the State of Mississippi; the Alabama
Department of Conservation and Natural
Resources and the Geological Survey of
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Alabama, for the State of Alabama; the
Florida Department of Environmental
Protection and the Florida Fish and
Wildlife Conservation Commission for
the State of Florida; and the Texas Parks
and Wildlife Department, Texas General
Land Office, and the Texas Commission
on Environmental Quality, for the State
of Texas. The notice of intent to begin
restoration scoping and prepare a
Programmatic Environmental Impact
Statement published at 76 FR 9327,
February 17, 2011.
The National Environmental Policy
Act (NEPA), 42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq., and
the Council on Environmental Quality
regulations implementing NEPA under
40 CFR Chapter V applies to restoration
actions by Federal trustees. The Federal
and state Trustees will be developing a
PEIS to help guide restoration actions
associated with the Natural Resource
Damage Assessment (NRDA) for the Oil
Spill. The PEIS will assess the
environmental, social, and economic
attributes of the affected environment
and the potential consequences of
alternative actions to restore,
rehabilitate, replace, or acquire the
equivalent of natural resources and
services potentially injured by the spill.
A PEIS may generally be prepared to
evaluate actions that encompass a large
geographic scale. Tiered analyses
considering particular restoration
actions may be required in the future as
specific plans for implementing
particular alternatives are established.
The purpose of the scoping process is
to identify the concerns of the affected
public and for the Federal agencies,
states, and Indian tribes to involve the
public early in the decision making
process, facilitate an efficient PEIS
preparation process, define the issues
and alternatives that will be examined
in detail, and save time by ensuring that
draft documents adequately address
relevant issues. The scoping process
reduces paperwork and delay by
ensuring that important issues are
addressed early. Following the scoping
process, the Trustees will prepare a
draft PEIS, at which time the public will
be encouraged to comment on the
document. Similar to the scoping
process, public comment meetings will
be held at that time to gather oral and
written public input on the draft PEIS.
In compliance with 15 CFR 990.45,
the Trustees will prepare an
Administrative Record (AR). The AR
will include documents that the
Trustees relied on during the
development of the PEIS. After
preparation, the Record will be on file
at the NOAA Restoration Center in
Silver Spring, MD, and duplicate copies
will be maintained at the following Web
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site: https://www.darrp.noaa.gov/. The
specific web page will be provided in
the next public notice.
The draft PEIS document is intended
to be released for public comment by
Fall/Winter, 2011. Specific dates and
times for future events will be
publicized when scheduled.
Dated: February 23, 2011.
Patricia A. Montanio,
Director, Office of Habitat Conservation,
National Marine Fisheries Service.
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National Climate Assessment
Development and Advisory Committee;
Request for Nominations and Notice of
Meeting
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.
AGENCY:
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
SUMMARY:
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Washington, DC, area and will be
announced at https://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 https://
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:
Kandis.Wyatt@noaa.gov.
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: Kandis.Wyatt@noaa.gov.
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
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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 https://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,
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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 https://www.globalchange.gov/whatwe-do/assessment/. The Interim
strategic plan for the NCA is available
at https://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 https://
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: Kandis.Wyatt@noaa.gov.
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.
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Proposed Nominees to the NCADAC
Biographies of proposed nominees of
the NCADAC are available at https://
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
´
Placido 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
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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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The United States Patent and
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proposal for collection of information
under the provisions of the Paperwork
Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. Chapter 35).
Agency: United States Patent and
Trademark Office (USPTO).
Title: Native American Tribal Insignia
Database.
Form Number(s): None.
Agency Approval Number: 0651–
0048.
Type of Request: Revision of a
currently approved collection.
Burden: 5 hours annually.
Number of Respondents: 8 responses
per year.
Avg. Hours Per Response: The USPTO
estimates that a recognized Native
American tribe will require an average
of 30 minutes (0.5 hours) to complete a
request to record an official insignia,
including time to prepare the
appropriate documents and submit the
completed request to the USPTO.
Needs and Uses: The Trademark Law
Treaty Implementation Act of 1998
(Pub. L. 105–330, § 302, 112 Stat. 3071)
required the USPTO to study issues
surrounding the protection of the
official insignia of federally and staterecognized Native American tribes
under trademark law. At the direction of
Congress, the USPTO created a database
containing the official insignia of
recognized Native American tribes.
The insignia database serves as a
reference for examining attorneys when
determining the registrability of a mark
that may falsely suggest a connection to
the official insignia of a Native
American tribe. The entry of an official
insignia into the database does not
confer any rights to the tribe that
submitted the insignia, and entry is not
the legal equivalent of registering the
insignia as a trademark under 15 U.S.C.
1051 et seq.
This information collection is used by
the USPTO to enter an official insignia
submitted by a federally or staterecognized Native American tribe into
the database. There are no forms
associated with this collection.
Affected Public: Tribal governments.
Frequency: On occasion.
Respondent’s Obligation: Required to
obtain or retain benefits.
OMB Desk Officer: Nicholas A. Fraser,
e-mail:
Nicholas_A._Fraser@omb.eop.gov.
Once submitted, the request will be
publicly available in electronic format
through the Information Collection
Review page at https://www.reginfo.gov.
Paper copies can be obtained by:
• E-mail:
InformationCollection@uspto.gov.
Include ‘‘0651–0048 copy request’’ in the
subject line of the message.
• Mail: Susan K. Fawcett, Records
Officer, Office of the Chief Information
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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 https://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 https://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: Kandis.Wyatt@noaa.gov.
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: Kandis.Wyatt@noaa.gov.
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 https://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 https://www.globalchange.gov/what-we-do/assessment/. The Interim strategic plan
for the NCA is available at https://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 https://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: Kandis.Wyatt@noaa.gov.
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
https://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.
[FR Doc. 2011-4562 Filed 3-1-11; 8:45 am]
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