[Federal Register Volume 71, Number 14 (Monday, January 23, 2006)]
[Notices]
[Pages 3487-3488]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E6-697]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

National Telecommunications and Information Administration


Notice: Request for Nominations, Spectrum Management Advisory 
Committee

AGENCY:  National Telecommunications and Information Administration.

ACTION:  Reopening of nomination period.

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SUMMARY:  On October 28, 2005, the Department of Commerce's National 
Telecommunications and Information Administration published a notice in 
the Federal Register (70 FR 62,099) announcing the formation of the 
Spectrum Management Advisory Committee (Committee) and soliciting 
nominations for persons to serve on the Committee. The October 28, 2005 
notice provided that all nominations of potential members must be 
received by the Department no later than November 28, 2005. The October 
28, 2005 notice also provided additional information concerning the 
Committee and membership on the Committee. This notice reopens the 
nomination period in order to provide the public with an additional 
opportunity to submit nominations. The evaluation criteria for 
selecting members contained in the October 28, 2005 notice shall 
continue to apply.

DATES:  The Department will accept nominations postmarked or 
electronically transmitted on or before January 31, 2006. Please note 
that nominations previously submitted at any time prior to the date of 
this notice (including those submitted after the November 28, 2005 
deadline) will be considered and should not be resubmitted.

ADDRESSES:  Persons wishing to submit nominations should send the 
nominee's resume to the attention of Joe Gattuso, Office of the 
Assistant Secretary, National Telecommunications and Information 
Administration, 1401 Constitution Avenue, NW., Room 4898, Washington DC 
20230; by facsimile transmission to (202) 501-0536; or by electronic 
mail to [email protected].

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:  Joe Gattuso at (202) 482-0977 or 
[email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On November 29, 2004, the President issued a 
Memorandum for the Heads of Executive Departments and Agencies on the 
subject of ``Spectrum Management for the 21st Century.'' \1\ Among 
other things, the Executive Memorandum directed the heads of the 
executive departments and agencies to implement the recommendations 
contained in two Commerce Department reports to the President 
identifying improvements in U.S. spectrum management.\2\ The first 
recommendation in Report 2 called for the establishment of a federal 
advisory committee within the National Telecommunications and 
Information Administration (NTIA).\3\
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    \1\ President's Memorandum on Improving Spectrum Management for 
the 21\st\ Century, 49 Weekly Comp. Pres. Doc. 2875 (Nov. 29, 
2004)(Executive Memorandum).
    \2\ See Department of Commerce, Spectrum Policy for the 21\st\ 
Century-The President's Spectrum Policy Initiative: Report 1, 
Recommendations of the Federal Government Spectrum Task Force (June 
2004); Department of Commerce, Spectrum Policy for the 21\st\ 
Century-The President's Spectrum Policy Initiative: Report 2, 
Recommendations from State and Local Governments and Private Sector 
Responders (June 2004)(Report 2), available at http://www.ntia.doc.gov/reports/specpolini/presspecpolini_report2_06242004.pdf.
    \3\ ``The National Telecommunications and Information 
Administration (NTIA) should establish the Department of Commerce 
Spectrum Management Advisory Committee, consistent with the Federal 
Advisory Committee Act [5 U.S.C. App.2] and the NTIA Organization 
Act [47 U.S.C. Sec. 904(b)].'' Report 2 at ii, 14-15.
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    Pursuant to the Executive Memorandum, the Secretary of Commerce 
established the Spectrum Management Advisory Committee under the 
Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA), 5 U.S.C. App. 2, consistent with 
the National Telecommunications and Information Administration Act,47 
U.S.C. 904(b). The Committee will report to the Assistant Secretary for 
Communications and Information. It will advise the Assistant Secretary 
on a broad range of issues regarding spectrum policy and on needed 
reforms to domestic spectrum policies and management to enable timely 
implementation of evolving spectrum-dependent technologies and services 
to benefit the public. The Committee will function solely as an 
advisory body in compliance with the FACA. The Committee's Charter 
appears on NTIA's Website at http://www.ntia.doc.gov.
    The criteria for selecting members contained in the October 28, 
2005 notice shall continue to apply. The Secretary of Commerce intends 
to appoint representatives from a balanced cross-

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section of stakeholder interests in spectrum management and policy 
reform, including non-federal government users, state, regional and 
local sectors, technology developers, and manufacturers, academia, 
consumer groups, and service providers with customers in both domestic 
and international markets. The Department of Commerce seeks high level 
individuals with broad expertise in and capable of representing those 
sectors and interests on policy issues relevant to the Committee. 
Members will be appointed for a two-year term and may be reappointed 
for additional terms. Members of the Committee will be appointed as 
Special Government Employees and will serve without compensation. 
Nominations should include a resume or curriculum vita, and should also 
include a statement summarizing the qualifications of the nominee and 
identifying the sector or interest (if individual) for which the 
nominee has expertise.

    Dated: January 18, 2006.
Kathy D. Smith,
Chief Counsel, National Telecommunications and Information 
Administration.
[FR Doc. E6-697 Filed 1-20-06; 8:45 am]
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