[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 41 (Wednesday, March 2, 2011)]
[Notices]
[Pages 11427-11429]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-4562]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration


National Climate Assessment Development and Advisory Committee; 
Request for Nominations and Notice of Meeting

AGENCY: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration; Department of 
Commerce.

ACTION: Request for nominations to the National Climate Assessment 
Development and Advisory Committee; Notice of Public Meeting.

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SUMMARY: This notice requests nominations of qualified individuals for 
the National Climate Assessment Development and Advisory Committee 
(NCADAC) and advises the public of an upcoming meeting of the NCADAC, 
pending final approval of its members. Individuals may self-nominate. 
Nominations received will be evaluated and, if appropriate to the 
overall composition of the committee, accepted. The NCADAC will meet on 
April 4, 2011, from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.; April 5, 2011, from 8 a.m. to 6 
p.m.; and April 6, 2011, from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m.

DATES: Nominations Deadline: Nominations must be received by March 16, 
2011.
    Public Comment Deadline: Public comments must be received by the 
NCADAC Designated Federal Official (DFO) by 12 p.m. on March 31, 2011, 
to provide sufficient time for distribution to the members prior to the 
meeting. Written comments received after 12 p.m. on March 31, 2011, 
will be distributed to the NCADAC, but may not be reviewed prior to the 
meeting date.
    NCADAC Meeting Date, Time and Location: The NCADAC will meet April 
4-6, 2011, at the following times: April 4, 2011, from 9 a.m. to 6 
p.m.; April 5, 2011, from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m.; and April 6, 2011, from 8 
a.m. to 2 p.m.. The location will be in the metro

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Washington, DC, area and will be announced at http://globalchange.gov/what-we-do/assessment/notices. The meeting may have limited seating 
capacity; seats are available on a first come-first served basis. For 
more information about the meeting, see the SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION.

ADDRESSES: Responses to this request for nominations must be submitted 
electronically at http://globalchange.gov/what-we-do/assessment/notices. Any member of the public who wishes to submit oral or written 
comments should contact: Dr. Kandis Wyatt, the NCADAC Designated 
Federal Official (DFO), NESDIS, SSMC1 Room 8330, 1335 East-West 
Highway, Silver Spring, Maryland 20910; telephone (240) 429-0512, e-
mail: [email protected].

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Any member of the public wishing 
further information concerning the meeting should contact: Dr. Kandis 
Wyatt, the NCADAC Designated Federal Official (DFO), NESDIS, SSMC1 Room 
8330, 1335 East-West Highway, Silver Spring, Maryland 20910; telephone 
(240) 429-0512, e-mail: [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Federal Advisory Committee

    The National Climate Assessment (NCA) is required by the Global 
Change Research Act of 1990. The Secretary of Commerce has established 
the NCADAC to produce a NCA that synthesizes and summarizes the science 
and information pertaining to current and future impacts of climate 
change upon the United States; and to provide advice and 
recommendations toward the development of an ongoing, sustainable 
national assessment of global change impacts and adaptation and 
mitigation strategies for the Nation.
    Once members are appointed, the NCADAC will work with assessment 
staff, agencies and external experts to generate inputs to the 
assessment process that come from a variety of sources--for example, 
government observing systems, peer reviewed literature, and information 
about existing social and physical stresses within regions and sectors. 
The NCADAC is charged both with writing the report that is due to the 
President and Congress, and with helping to build a permanent national 
process to document changes in climate, its impacts and associated 
global changes over time. Among the proposed approaches is establishing 
a series of national indicators of change.
    Through this Federal Register Notice, the Department of Commerce 
solicits nominations for the NCADAC. Since the NCADAC will provide 
advice about the process of assessment as well as write a report, a 
very wide range of expertise is required. In considering potential 
members of this committee, persons with the following types of 
expertise were sought: Sectoral expertise, including the natural 
environment, agriculture and forestry, energy, land cover and land use, 
water resources, transportation, health, human social systems, 
biodiversity, coastal and marine resources; systems expertise including 
oceans, atmosphere, biogeochemical cycles, etc.; climate modeling, 
climate impacts, atmospheric science, land use and land cover change; 
assessment process experts, including people who are familiar with 
economic assessment and valuation, vulnerability assessment, 
adaptation, mitigation, and integrated assessment; international issues 
and assessment components; data systems development and management; 
communications, stakeholder engagement and public processes; urban 
systems and infrastructure; homeland security; environmental justice 
and cultural resources and indigenous perspectives. Persons with a 
range of perspectives are sought, including people with experience in 
private industry, state, local, and regional government, academia, and 
non-governmental organizations, and drawn from a broad geographic 
distribution.
    Nominations must include a no more than two-page resume outlining 
the qualifications, experience and education of the individual being 
nominated, as well as a paragraph describing how the individual will 
strengthen the ability of the committee to meet its charge, relative to 
the charter for the NCADAC at http://globalchange.gov/what-we-do/assessment/charter and list of expertise requirements included in this 
Federal Register Notice. Nominees should have the ability to work 
effectively in a committee process, be prepared for a government 
clearance review, and expect to dedicate significant time to NCADAC 
activities. Members of the committee are not compensated for their 
time, but their travel expenses associated with attending committee 
meetings are reimbursed. Information obtained as a result of this 
request may be used by the government for program planning on a non-
attribution basis. Do not include any information that might be 
considered proprietary or confidential.

NCADAC Meeting

    The NCADAC will meet on April 4-6, 2011, at the following times: 
April 4, 2011, from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.; April 5, 2011, from 8 a.m. to 6 
p.m.; and April 6, 2011, from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. During this public 
meeting, the NCADAC will discuss initial plans for development of a 
first draft of the NCADAC's Report to Congress and the President, as 
well as advising on the development of the Assessment process.
    The proposed approach to the Assessment and a draft outline of a 
report to be prepared in 2013 was published in a Federal Register 
Notice dated September 7, 2010, and available at http://www.globalchange.gov/what-we-do/assessment/. The Interim strategic plan 
for the NCA is available at http://globalchange.gov/what-we-do/assessment/strategic-plan. The Charter for the Assessment was published 
in a Federal Register Notice dated December 27, 2010, and is available 
at http://globalchange.gov/what-we-do/assessment/charter.
    The NCA outline will evolve over the coming months and years in 
response to continued input from experts, peer review, and the public. 
In the months after the first meeting of the NCADAC, another Federal 
Register Notice will be issued that provides an updated outline and 
timeframe for the NCA process.
    There are multiple ways that the Assessment provides opportunities 
for public comment and engagement. They include public meetings, an e-
newsletter that provides an update on Assessment activities every 6 
weeks, a Web site that is regularly updated, and Federal Register 
Notices.
    Special Accommodations: These meetings are physically accessible to 
people with disabilities. Requests for special accommodations may be 
directed no later than 12 p.m. on March 30, 2011, to Dr. Kandis Wyatt, 
the NCADAC Designated Federal Official (DFO), NESDIS, SSMC1 Room 8330, 
1335 East-West Highway, Silver Spring, Maryland 20910; telephone (240) 
429-0512, e-mail: [email protected].
    Additional Information and Public Comments: The NCADAC meeting will 
be open to public participation and will include a 30-minute public 
comment period on April 5, 2011, from 9 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. (Please check 
the www.globalchange.gov/what-we-do/assessment/notices Web site to 
confirm this time). Each individual or group requesting to make a 
verbal presentation will be limited to a total time of five (5) 
minutes. If there are no prior requests to speak, or time remains in 
the public comment period, there will be a call to the audience for 
comments, limited to 5 minutes each. Written comments will also be 
accepted and 50 paper copies as well as an electronic version should be

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received by the NCADAC Designated Federal Official (DFO) by 12 p.m. on 
March 31, 2011, to provide sufficient time for distribution to the 
members prior to the meeting. Written comments received after 12 p.m. 
on March 31, 2011, will be distributed to the NCADAC, but may not be 
reviewed prior to the meeting date. Seats will be available to the 
public on a first-come, first-served basis.

Proposed Nominees to the NCADAC

    Biographies of proposed nominees of the NCADAC are available at 
http://globalchange.gov/what-we-do/assessment/proposedFACmembers.

Non-Federal

Daniel Abbasi, Mission Point Capital Partners
Dr. E. Virginia Armbrust, University of Washington
Dr. Rosina Bierbaum, University of Michigan
Maria Blair, Rockefeller Foundation
James Buizer, Arizona State University
Dr. Lynne Carter, Louisiana State University
Dr. F. Stuart Chapin III, University of Alaska
Dr. Camille Coley, Florida Atlantic University
Jan Dell, P.E., CH2MHill
Pl[aacute]cido dos Santos, Arizona Department of Water Resources (ret)
Guido Franco, California Energy Commission
Mary Gade, Gade Environmental Group, LLC
Dr. Aris Georgakakos, Georgia Institute of Technology
Dr. David Hales, College of the Atlantic
Dr. Mark Howden, Australian Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial 
Research Organisation
Dr. Peter Kareiva, The Nature Conservancy
Dr. Kenneth Kunkel, North Carolina State University and NOAA 
Cooperative Institute for Climate and Satellites
Dr. Rattan Lal, The Ohio State University
Dr. Arthur Lee, Chevron Corporation
Dr. Jo-Ann Leong, University of Hawai'i
Dr. Diana Liverman, University of Arizona and Oxford University
Dr. Edward Maibach, George Mason University
Dr. Jerry Melillo, Marine Biological Laboratory
Dr. Susanne Moser, Susanne Moser Research & Consulting, Stanford 
University, and University of California-Santa Cruz
Dr. Richard Moss, Joint Global Change Research Institute, Pacific 
Northwest National Laboratory and University of Maryland
Dr. Philip Mote, Oregon State University
Dr. Marie O'Neill, University of Michigan
Terese Richmond, Gordon Derr, LLP
Dr. Andrew Rosenberg, University of New Hampshire and Conservation 
International
Dr. Richard Schmalensee, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Joel Smith, Stratus Consulting
Dr. Donald Wuebbles, University of Illinois
Dr. Gary Yohe, Wesleyan University

Federal Ex-Officio

Dr. John Balbus, Department of Health and Human Services
William Breed, U.S. Agency for International Development
Dr. Gary Geernaert, Department of Energy
Dr. John Hall, Department of Defense
Alice Hill, Department of Homeland Security (pending charter revision)
Dr. Len Hirsch, Smithsonian Institution
Dr. Patricia Jacobberger-Jellison, National Aeronautics and Space 
Administration
Thomas Karl, Subcommittee on Global Change Research and National 
Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Cathleen Kelly, White House Council on Environmental Quality and 
Adaptation Task Force (pending charter revision)
Dr. Chester Koblinsky, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Linda Lawson, Department of Transportation
Dr. Robert O'Connor, National Science Foundation
Dr. Jonathan Pershing, Department of State
Dr. Michael Slimak, Environmental Protection Agency
Dr. Alan Thornhill, Department of the Interior
Dr. Margaret Walsh, U.S. Department of Agriculture

    Dated: February 23, 2011.
Gary Locke,
Secretary of Commerce.
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