[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 36 (Tuesday, February 24, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Page 9267]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-4581]


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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 U.S. National Assessment Synthesis 
Team is necessary and in the public interest in connection with the 
performance of duties imposed upon the Director, National Science 
Foundation (NSF), by 42 U.S.C. 1861 et seq. This determination follows 
consultation with the Committee Management Secretariat, General 
Services Administration.
    Name of Committee: U.S. National Assessment Synthesis Team.
    Purpose: The U.S. National Assessment Synthesis Team is being 
formed under the auspices of the interagency Subcommittee on Global 
Change Research (SGCR), within the purview of the interagency Committee 
on Environmental and Natural Resources (CENR) and under the National 
Science and Technology Council (NSTC). The Team is meant to have broad 
responsibilities for the design and conduct of the national effort to 
assess the consequences of climate variability and climate change for 
the United States.
    Balanced Membership Plans. The Committee will be balanced with 12 
men and women from government, academia, and the private sector to 
ensure that the final product represents the best possible assessment 
of the impacts of climate change.
    Responsible NSF Official: Dr. Robert Corell, Assistant Director for 
Geosciences and chair of the Subcommittee on Global Change Research, 
Room 705, National Science Foundation, 4301 Wilson Boulevard, 
Arlington, Va. 22300, telephone (703) 306-1500.

    Dated: February 18, 1998.
M. Rebecca Winkler,
Committee Management Officer.
[FR Doc. 98-4581 Filed 2-23-98; 8:45 am]
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