[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 131 (Monday, July 8, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Page 35817]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-17254]


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NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION


Committee Management; Notice of Establishment

    The Deputy Director of the National Science Foundation has 
determined that the establishment of a United States Antarctic Program 
Blue Ribbon Panel, is necessary and in the public interest in 
connection with the performance of duties imposed upon the Director, 
National Science Foundation (NSF), by 42 USC 1861 et seq. This 
determination follows consultation with the Office of Management and 
Budget and with the Committee Management Secretariat, General Services 
Administration.
    NAME OF COMMITTEE: United States Antarctic Program (USAP) Blue 
Ribbon Panel.
    PURPOSE & OBJECTIVE: The objective of the United States Antarctic 
Program (USAP) Blue Ribbon Panel is to recommend to the National 
Science Foundation (NSF) promising approaches that NSF can take to 
realize significant savings in the USAP. The Panel's charge is to:
 examine full range of infrastructure, management, and 
scientific options of operations, including the eventual replacement of 
South Pole Station; develop several budget scenarios, including one to 
correspond to a five to seven year freeze in total USAP funding;
 examine the efficiency and appropriateness of the management 
of infrastructure, management, and scientific options of operations; 
and
 evaluate how the science programs are implemented.
    BALANCE MEMBERSHIP PLANS: Approximately twelve persons from the 
external community will serve on the Panel. These members will be 
experts in a broad range of areas, including infrastructure management 
in hostile environments, difficult logistics, communications, 
international collaboration, and research that involves remote 
operations of facilities or instruments. The members of the Panel will 
reflect a broad, senior-level perspective on these areas and will be 
individuals who have made overarching decisions on complex and 
challenging programs. The Panel will begin its work in late Summer and 
complete its report by next Spring.
    RESPONSIBLE NSF OFFICIALS: Mr. Erick Chiang, Acting Deputy 
Director, Office of Polar Programs, National Science Foundation, 4201 
Wilson Blvd., Arlington, VA 22230 (703 306-1030).

    Dated: July 2, 1996.
M. Rebecca Winkler,
Committee Management Office.
[FR Doc. 96-17254 Filed 7-5-96; 8:45 am]
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