[Federal Register Volume 72, Number 59 (Wednesday, March 28, 2007)]
[Notices]
[Pages 14637-14638]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E7-5687]


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DEPARTMENT OF STATE

[Public Notice 5731]


Paul Simon Water for the Poor Act 2005: Comment Submission on 
2006 Report

    The U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Oceans and International 
Environmental and Scientific Affairs is inviting interested groups and 
individuals to submit comments on the 2006 Report to Congress mandated 
by the ``Paul Simon Water for the Poor Act of 2005''. (The Report can 
be viewed or downloaded at http://www.state.gov/g/oes/water.) These 
comments, as part of the State Department's continuing outreach to the 
greater community of water stakeholders, will be incorporated into our 
evaluation of last year's report and will help build the base of our 
thinking on the 2007 report.
    The Paul Simon Water for the Poor Act of 2005 (HR 1973/PL-109-121) 
requires the Department of State with the U.S. Agency for International 
Development to develop and implement a strategy to further U.S. foreign 
assistance objectives to provide affordable and equitable access to 
safe water and sanitation in developing countries. The Act directs that 
the strategy be developed in consultation with ``other appropriate 
Federal departments and agencies, international organizations, 
international financial institutions, recipient governments, United 
States and international nongovernmental organizations, indigenous 
civil society and other appropriate entities.''
    Interested parties are invited to submit their written comments to 
Mr. Douglas McPherson, U.S. Department of State, OES/PCI Room 2726, 
2201 C

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Street, NW., Washington, DC 20520 or by e-mail to [email protected] 
no later than April 23, 2007. Submissions should be limited to 1500 
words.
    In addition to these comments, the Department of State, working 
with interested stakeholders, plans to have an event with experts to 
discuss key elements of the strategy.
    For further information, please contact Douglas McPherson at: 1-
866-501-7952 or by e-mail at [email protected].

    Dated: March 21, 2007.
Claudia A. McMurray,
Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Oceans and International Environmental 
and Scientific Affairs, Department of State.
 [FR Doc. E7-5687 Filed 3-27-07; 8:45 am]
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