[Federal Register Volume 68, Number 15 (Thursday, January 23, 2003)]
[Notices]
[Page 3231]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 03-1464]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

[I.D. 011003A]


NOAA Strategic Plan

AGENCY: Office of Strategic Planning (OSP), National Oceanic and 
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Commerce.

ACTION: Notice of intent to prepare a new NOAA Strategic Plan; request 
for comments.

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SUMMARY: The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration(NOAA) is 
the United State's premier agency for environmental assessment and 
prediction and management providing broad benefitsto the Nation in the 
areas of economy, public safety and the environment. NOAA has recently 
begun the process of creating a new Strategic Plan for the agency 
responding to growing needs of the Nation for environmental information 
and management. One of the objectives of the new NOAA Strategic Plan is 
to directlyaddress the President's Management Agenda including 
principles for a citizen-centered, results oriented, and market-based 
government. To that end, NOAA has conducted a series of stakeholder and 
employee workshops in Seattle, New Orleans, Boston, Washington, DC, 
Boulder, Cleveland and Puerto Rico over the past several months and has 
used this input to lay the foundation for drafting the new NOAA 
Strategic Plan. Important themes that emerged from these meetings were 
ecosystem approaches to coastal and ocean resource management, climate 
variability and change and weather and water information needs as well 
as agency-wide cross-cutting priorities that will enhance NOAA's 
mission and provide leadership in the environmental sciences to better 
serve America in the 21st century. When finalized in early 2003, after 
public and internal review, the new NOAA Strategic Plan will become the 
blueprint for the direction of NOAA's core and future missions and will 
become institutionalized in every aspect of NOAA's resource planning 
and priority setting.

DATES: Public comments on this document must be received at the 
appropriate email address (see ADDRESSES) on or before 5 p.m., local 
time, February 14, 2003.

ADDRESSES: The NOAA Draft Strategic Plan is available at the OSP web 
site: http://www.osp.noaa.gov. Comments may be sent directly to the OSP 
email address [email protected] or visit the OSP website to 
submit comments. Comments will not be accepted if submitted via phone 
or fax.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: James Burgess, Office of Strategic 
Planning (OSP), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 
Herbert C. Hoover Building (HCHB), Room 6121, 14th and Constitution 
Ave., NW, Washington, DC 20230, phone: 202-482-5181, fax: 202-501-3024.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Status

    NOAA encourages all stakeholders and users to review the draft 
Strategic Plan. All comments must be submitted by individual 
participants (persons, businesses, organizations, etc.). Group 
consensus comments will not be accepted. The discussion draft of the 
NOAA Strategic Plan and directions for submitting comments have been 
posted on the website. Comments, questions and suggestions are welcomed 
from both scientific and stakeholder communities. All comments received 
will be reviewed and considered in the final drafting of NOAA's new 
Strategic Plan.

    Dated: January 16, 2003.
James P. Burgess, III
Acting Director, Office of Strategic Planning, National Oceanic and 
Atmospheric Administration.
[FR Doc. 03-1464 Filed 1-22-03; 8:45 am]
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