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Part VIII





Executive Office of the President





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Policy Dialog Advisory Committee to Assist in the Development of 
Measures to Significantly Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions From Personal 
Motor Vehicles; Establishment and Open Meeting
EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT

 

Establishment and Open Meeting of Policy Dialog Advisory 
Committee to Assist in the Development of Measures to Significantly 
Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions From Personal Motor Vehicles

AGENCY: Executive Office of the President.

ACTION: First Meeting of Policy Dialog Advisory Committee.

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SUMMARY: The Executive Office of the President has established a Policy 
Dialog Advisory Committee to assist in the development of measures to 
significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions from personal motor 
vehicles. This committee has been authorized under the President's 
Climate Change Action Plan and Presidential Review Directive NEC-1. 
Pursuant to section 9(c) of the Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA, 5 
U.S.C. App. 2, sec. 9(c)), a copy of the Committee Charter has been 
filed with the Administrator of General Services and with the Library 
of Congress.
    The first meeting of this committee will be held on September 28 
and 29, 1994. The purposes of the meeting is to discuss the charge to 
the committee as stated in the Committee Charter, consider information 
pertaining to the scope and purpose of the committee and how the 
committee will operate, develop a schedule for committee deliberations 
and reports, and begin discussion of issues the committee will address. 
The committee meeting is open to the public without need for advance 
registration.

DATES: The committee will meet on September 28, 1994 from 8:15 a.m. to 
6 p.m., and on September 29, 1994 from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.

ADDRESSES: The September 28 portion of the meeting will be held in room 
2230 at the United States Department of Transportation, 400 7th Street, 
SW., Washington, DC. The September 29 portion of the meeting will be 
held at the White House Conference Center, 726 Jackson Place, NW., 
Washington, DC.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
For information pertaining to the substantive issues to be dealt with 
by the advisory committee, contact: Ellen Seidman, Special Assistant to 
the President for Economic Policy, Washington, DC 20500, phone (202) 
456-2802, fax (202) 456-2223; Henry Kelly, Assistant Director for 
Technology, Office of Science and Technology Policy, phone (202) 456-
6034, fax (202) 456-6023; Wesley Warren, Associate Director, Office on 
Environmental Policy, phone (202) 456-6224, fax (202) 456-2710; or Alan 
Krupnick, Senior Economist, Council of Economic Advisors, phone (202) 
395-5012, fax (202) 395-6853. For information pertaining to the 
establishment of the advisory committee and associated administrative 
matters contact: Deborah Dalton, Environmental Protection Agency, 401 M 
Street, SW., Washington, DC 20460, phone (202) 260-5495.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Background

    On April 14, 1994, the Executive Office of the President published 
in the Federal Register a notice of intent to form a 30-member policy 
dialog advisory committee to assist in the development of measures to 
significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions from personal motor 
vehicles. That notice set forth the purpose of the committee and its 
goals, and asked for suggestions from the public for members of the 
committee. The period for public comment in response to the notice 
ended May 4, 1994. Over 160 comments, suggesting more than 170 
potential committee members, were submitted in response to the notice.
    As set forth in the April 14, 1994 notice, the policy dialog arises 
out of the President's Climate Change Action Plan, issued in October 
1993. The committee will develop recommendations on the sets of 
policies that would, if adopted, most cost-effectively obtain a return 
to 1990 levels of greenhouse gas emissions from personal motor vehicles 
by the years 2005, 2015 and 2025, with no upturn thereafter. This 
framework of achievement of 1990 emissions levels in three alternative 
years is intended to focus the issues and the recommendations to be 
considered by the committee. Decisions on the amount and timing of 
reductions in greenhouse gas emissions from personal motor vehicles, 
and the policies to attain them, remain the responsibility of the 
federal government. The Administration has stated that it is committed 
to significant reductions in greenhouse gas emissions from personal 
motor vehicles.
    The committee will, as stated in the April 14, 1994 notice, include 
representatives from state and local governments; the automobile 
industry and related parties; labor; transportation fuels; and public 
interest groups, including the driving public. Thirty individuals have 
been tentatively selected to be members of the committee, though any 
formal appointments will be subject to final checks on availability and 
other issues. It is contemplated that these checks will be completed 
prior to the committee's first meeting on September 28. Announcement of 
the full committee membership will be made as soon as all members are 
appointed.

II. Schedule for the Committee's Work

    The Committee Charter provides that the committee's work shall be 
completed, and its report issued, within one year of its first meeting, 
unless such period is extended by the President. The Charter also 
provides that the committee shall issue an interim report not later 
than six months after the date of its first meeting.

III. Committee Procedures

    The following procedures and guidelines shall apply to the 
committee unless they are modified by the committee.

A. Facilitator

    The committee shall be chaired by a neutral facilitator. Suzanne 
Orenstein, of Resolve, Inc., has been retained by the federal 
government to perform this function. The facilitator will not take 
positions about substantive outcomes of the committee's work. The 
facilitator's role is to chair committee meetings, help the committee 
process run smoothly, and help participants define and reach consensus.

B. Support for Agreement

    The committee is charged to work toward a set of consensus policy 
options that committee members can, for the foreseeable future, support 
individually and on behalf of the constituencies they represent.

C. Meetings

    Meetings will be held in Washington, DC and at other locations at 
the convenience of the committee. The Executive Office of the President 
will announce committee meetings in the Federal Register in accordance 
with the FACA. Such meetings will be open to the public as provided in 
and subject to the provisions of the FACA.

D. Committee Procedures

    Under the general guidance and direction of the facilitator, and 
subject to any applicable legal requirements, the members will 
establish the detailed procedures for committee meetings which they 
consider most appropriate.

E. Use of Electronic Communications

    Subject to the further decision of the committee, the committee's 
agendas, meeting summaries and related items will be available to the 
public through the Technology Transfer Network of the Office of Air 
Quality Planning & Standards of the Environmental Protection Agency. 
The public may also communicate with the committee and the facilitator 
through this facility. The system will be able to be accessed 
electronically (for modems up to 14,400 bps) starting October 10, 1994, 
by calling (919) 541-5742. Help in accessing the system can be obtained 
by calling (919) 541-5384 between 1:00 and 5:00 Eastern Daylight 
Savings Time. Neither of these numbers is a toll-free number

F. Record of Meetings

    A record will be kept of all advisory committee meetings. This 
record will be placed in EPA Air Docket #A-94-24, and will be available 
in the EPA Reading Room and on the Technology Transfer Network.

    Dated: September 12, 1994.
W. Bowman Cutter,
Deputy Assistant to the President for Economic Policy.
John H. Gibbons,
Director, Office of Science and Technology Policy.
Kathleen A. McGinty,
Director, Office on Environmental Policy.
[FR Doc. 94-22873 Filed 9-12-94; 1:27 pm]
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