[Federal Register Volume 75, Number 154 (Wednesday, August 11, 2010)]
[Notices]
[Page 48731]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2010-19762]


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NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION


Notice of Availability for Public Comment on the Draft Joint 
Subcommittee on Ocean Science and Technology--Interagency Ocean 
Observation Committee Public-Private Use Policy

AGENCY: National Science Foundation.

ACTION: Notice of availability; request for comments.

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SUMMARY: The NOAA Integrated Ocean Observing System (IOOS) Program 
publishes this notice on behalf of the Joint Subcommittee on Ocean 
Science and Technology--Interagency Ocean Observation Committee (JSOST-
IOOC) to announce a 60-day public comment period for the Public-Private 
Use Policy mandated by the Integrated Coastal and Ocean Observation 
System Act of 2009. This policy defines the process the IOOC will use 
to make decisions about the roles of the federal government, the 
States, regional information coordination entities, the academic 
community and the private sector in providing IOOS environmental 
information, products, technologies and services to end-user 
communities.

DATES: Written, faxed or emailed comments must be received no later 
than 5 p.m. eastern standard time on October 12, 2010.

ADDRESSES: The JSOST-IOOC Public-Private Use Policy is available for 
review at Web site URL: http://www.iooc.us. For the public unable to 
access the internet, printed copies can be requested by contacting the 
IOOC Support Office at the address below. The public is encouraged to 
submit comments electronically to [email protected]. If you are 
unable to access the internet, comments may be submitted via fax or 
regular mail. Faxed comments should be sent to 202-332-8887 with Attn: 
IOOC Support Office. Comments may be submitted in writing to the 
Consortium for Ocean Leadership, Attention: IOOC Support Office, 1201 
New York Avenue, NW., 4th Floor, Washington, DC 20005

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For further information about this 
notice, please contact the IOOC Support Office, telephone: 202-787-
1622; E-mail: [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On 30 March 2009, President Barack Obama 
signed into law the Integrated Coastal and Ocean Observation Act of 
2009. Among the requirements in the Act is a directive to the National 
Ocean Research Leadership Council (NORLC) to develop a Public-Private 
Use Policy. In April 2007 the NORLC jointly agreed with the Committee 
on Ocean Policy supporting body, the Interagency Committee on Ocean 
Science and Resource Management Integration (ICOSRMI), to allow future 
actions taken by ICOSRMI to be deemed actions of the NORLC for the 
purpose of maintaining interagency progress. The IOOC, the federal 
interagency group established to lead the interagency planning and 
coordination of ocean observing activities including IOOS, is 
represented by seventeen federal agencies, with NOAA identified as the 
lead federal agency by the Administration. As defined in the IOOC 
Charter, the purpose of the IOOC is to advise and assist the JSOST on 
matters relating to all aspects of ocean observations within the scope 
of an end-to-end concept of ocean observations. The JSOST is under the 
governance of the NORLC and, by the April 2007 agreement, the ICOSRMI.

    Dated: August 5, 2010.
Suzanne H. Plimpton,
Reports Clearance Officer, National Science Foundation.
[FR Doc. 2010-19762 Filed 8-10-10; 8:45 am]
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