[Federal Register Volume 69, Number 188 (Wednesday, September 29, 2004)]
[Notices]
[Page 58213]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 04-21698]


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DEPARTMENT OF STATE

[Public Notice 4840]


United States Climate Change Science Program

ACTION: Request expert review of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate 
Change (IPCC) and Technology and Economic Assessment Panel (TEAP) 
``Special Report on Safeguarding the Ozone Layer and the Global Climate 
System: Issues Related to Hydrofluorocarbons and Perfluorocarbons'' 
(SROC).

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SUMMARY: In addition to periodic assessments of the science, impacts, 
and socio-economic aspects of climate change, the IPCC provides, on 
request, advice to the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations 
Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and its bodies. The 
Eighth Conference of Parties to the UNFCCC and the Fourteenth Meeting 
of the Parties to the Montreal Protocol invited the IPCC and TEAP to 
prepare a special report on ozone and climate by early 2005. The report 
assesses scientific and technical information relating to decisions and 
policies on alternatives to ozone-depleting substances, thus 
contributing to the objectives of both the Montreal Protocol and the 
UNFCCC. The report covers chemicals in use or likely to be used in the 
next decade. A Steering Committee from IPCC Working Group I and III and 
TEAP is overseeing the preparation of this Special Report, which is 
being written by a team of over 100 authors under established IPCC 
rules and procedures.
    The IPCC Secretariat has informed the U.S. Department of State that 
the second-order SROC draft is available for expert and Government 
review. The Climate Change Science Program Office (CCSPO) is 
coordinating collection of U.S. expert comments and the review of these 
collations by panels of Federal scientists and program managers to 
develop a consolidated U.S. Government submission. Instructions on how 
to format comments are available at http://www.climatescience.gov/Library/ipcc/sroc-review.htm, as is the document itself. Comments must 
be sent to CCSPO by 2 November 2004 to be considered for inclusion in 
the U.S. Government collation.

Time and Date: Properly formatted comments should be sent to CCSPO at 
[email protected] by COB Tuesday, 2 November 2004. 
Include report acronym and reviewer surname in e-mail subject title to 
facilitate processing.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: David Dokken, U.S. Climate Change 
Science Program, Suite 250, 1717 Pennsylvania Ave, NW., Washington, DC 
20006 (http://www.climatescience.gov).

    Dated: September 22, 2004.
Edward J. Fendley
Office Director, Acting, Office of Global Change, Bureau of Oceans and 
International Environmental and Scientific Affairs, Department of 
State.
[FR Doc. 04-21698 Filed 9-28-04; 8:45 am]
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