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Part IV





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; Open Meeting; Notice
EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT

 

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: 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 second meeting of this committee will be held on October 19 and 
20, 1994. The purpose of the meeting is to continue discussion of 
committee procedures and of policy options. The committee meeting is 
open to the public without need for advance registration.

DATES: The Committee will meet on October 19, 1994 from 9:30 a.m. to 
5:30 p.m., and on October 20, 1994 from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

ADDRESSES: The October 19 portion of the meeting will be held at the 
Quality Hotel Capitol Hill, 415 New Jersey Avenue, NW., Washington, DC. 
The October 20 portion of the meeting will be held in Room 2230 at the 
United States Department of Transportation, 400 7th Street, SW., 
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 Michael Toman, Senior Economist, 
Council of Economic Advisors, phone (202) 395-5012, fax (202) 395-6853. 
For information pertaining to administrative matters contact: Deborah 
Dalton, Environmental Protection Agency, 401 M Street, SW., Washington, 
DC 20460, phone (202) 260-5495.

SUPPLEMENTAL 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.
    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 30-member committee includes representatives from state and 
local governments; the automobile industry and related parties; labor; 
transportation fuels; and public interest groups, including the driving 
public. The Committee held its first meeting on September 28 and 29, 
1994 in Washington, DC. A draft summary of that meeting will be 
available at the second meeting, and will also be available after the 
second meeting on 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 14,000 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 and 5 Eastern Daylight Savings 
Time. Neither of these numbers is a toll-free number.

II. Agenda for the Meeting

    The topics that will be covered at the meeting are:
     Committee procedural protocols and operating plan for the 
next six months, including structure for working groups;
     Revisions to the list of policy options, and development 
of criteria for evaluating options; and
     Factors affecting vehicle efficiency.

    Dated: October 4, 1994.
W. Bowman Cutter,
Deputy Assistant to the President for Economic Policy.
John H. Gibbons,
Director, Office of Science and Technology Policy.
Catherine R. Zoi,
Deputy Director, Office on Environmental Policy.
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