[Federal Register Volume 78, Number 129 (Friday, July 5, 2013)]
[Notices]
[Pages 40444-40446]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2013-16127]


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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE

Office of the Secretary


Amendment of the Threat Reduction Advisory Committee

AGENCY: DoD.

ACTION: Amendment of Federal Advisory Committee.

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SUMMARY: Under the provisions of the Federal Advisory Committee Act of 
1972 (5 U.S.C. Appendix), the Government in the Sunshine Act of

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1976 (5 U.S.C. 552b), and 41 CFR 102-3.50(d), the Department of Defense 
gives notice that it is amending the charter for the Threat Reduction 
Advisory Committee (``the Committee''). The Committee has been 
determined to be in the public interest.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jim Freeman, Advisory Committee 
Management Officer for the Department of Defense, 703-692-5952.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Committee shall provide independent 
advice and recommendations on matters relating to combating Weapons of 
Mass Destruction (WMD), as set forth in this notice. The Committee 
shall provide the Secretary of Defense, through the Under Secretary of 
Defense for Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics (USD(AT&L)) and the 
Assistant Secretary of Defense for Nuclear, Chemical and Biological 
Defense Programs (ASD(NCB)), independent advice and recommendations on:
    a. Reducing the threat to the United States, its military forces, 
and its allies and partners posed by nuclear, biological, chemical, 
conventional, and special weapons.
    b. Combating WMD to include non-proliferation, 
counterproliferation, and consequence management.
    c. Nuclear deterrence transformation, nuclear material lockdown and 
accountability.
    d. Nuclear weapons effects.
    e. The nexus of counterproliferation and counter WMD terrorism.
    f. Other AT&L NCB; and Defense Threat Reduction Agency mission-
related matters, as requested by the USD(AT&L).
    The Committee shall be composed of not more than 21 members who are 
eminent authorities in the fields of national defense, geopolitical and 
national security affairs, WMD, nuclear physics, chemistry, and 
biology.
    The Committee members are appointed by the Secretary of Defense, 
and their appointments will be renewed on an annual basis. The 
Committee members who are not full-time or permanent part-time Federal 
officers or employees, shall be appointed as experts and consultants 
under the authority of 5 U.S.C. 3109 to serve as special government 
employee (SGE) members, with annual renewals.
    Committee members shall, with the exception of travel and per diem 
for official travel, serve without compensation, unless authorized by 
the Secretary of Defense.
    The Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology, and 
Logistics and the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Nuclear, Chemical 
and Biological Defense Programs shall select the Committee's 
Chairperson and Vice Chairperson from the Committee membership at 
large.
    The Secretary of Defense may approve the appointment of Committee 
members for one-to-four year terms of service; however, no member, 
unless authorized by the Secretary of Defense, may serve more than two 
consecutive terms of service. This same term of service limitation also 
applies to any DoD authorized subcommittees.
    Each Committee member is appointed to provide advice to the 
government on the basis of his or her best judgment without 
representing any particular point of view and in a manner that is free 
from conflict of interest.
    The Department, when necessary and consistent with the Committee's 
mission, may establish subcommittees, task forces, and working groups. 
Establishment of subcommittees will be based upon a written 
determination, to include terms of reference, by the Secretary of 
Defense, the Deputy Secretary of Defense, or the USD(AT&L).
    Such subcommittees or panels shall not work independently of the 
chartered Committee, and shall report their findings and advice solely 
to the Committee for full deliberation and discussion. Subcommittees or 
working groups have no authority to make decisions and recommendations 
verbally or in writing on behalf of the chartered Committee, nor can 
they report directly or release documents to the Agency or any Federal 
officers or employees.
    All subcommittee members shall be appointed in the same manner as 
the Committee members; that is, the Secretary of Defense shall appoint 
subcommittee members even if the member in question is already a 
Committee member. Subcommittee members, with the approval of the 
Secretary of Defense, may serve a term of service on the subcommittee 
of one-to-four years; however, no member shall serve more than two 
consecutive terms of service on the subcommittee.
    Subcommittee members, if not full-time or permanent part-time 
government employees, shall be appointed to serve as experts and 
consultants under the authority of 5 U.S.C. Sec.  3109 to serve as SGE 
members, whose appointments must be renewed by the Secretary of Defense 
on an annual basis. With the exception of travel and per diem for 
official Committee-related travel, subcommittee members shall serve 
without compensation.
    All subcommittees operate under the provisions of FACA, the 
Sunshine Act, governing Federal statutes and regulations, and 
established DoD policies and procedures.
    The Designated Federal Officer (DFO), pursuant to DoD policy, shall 
be a full-time or permanent part-time DoD employee, and shall be 
appointed in accordance with established DoD policies and procedures.
    In addition, the DFO is required to be in attendance at all 
committee and subcommittee meetings for the entire duration of each and 
every meeting. However, in the absence of the Committee's DFO, an 
Alternate DFO, duly appointed to the Committee according to DoD 
policies and procedures, shall attend the entire duration of the 
Committee or subcommittee meeting.
    The DFO, or the Alternate DFO, shall call all of the Committee's 
and subcommittee's meetings; prepare and approve all meeting agendas; 
adjourn any meeting when the DFO, or the Alternate DFO, determines 
adjournment to be in the public interest or required by governing 
regulations or DoD policies and procedures; and chair meetings when 
directed to do so by the official to whom the Committee reports.
    Pursuant to 41 CFR 102-3.105(j) and 102-3.140, the public or 
interested organizations may submit written statements to the Threat 
Reduction Advisory Committee membership about the Committee's mission 
and functions. Written statements may be submitted at any time or in 
response to the stated agenda of planned meeting of Threat Reduction 
Advisory Committee.
    All written statements shall be submitted to the Designated Federal 
Officer for the Threat Reduction Advisory Committee, and this 
individual will ensure that the written statements are provided to the 
membership for their consideration. Contact information for the Threat 
Reduction Advisory Committee Designated Federal Officer can be obtained 
from the GSA's FACA Database--http://www.facadatabase.gov/rpt/search.asp.
    The Designated Federal Officer, pursuant to 41 CFR 102-3.150, will 
announce planned meetings of the Threat Reduction Advisory Committee. 
The Designated Federal Officer, at that time, may provide additional 
guidance on the submission of written statements that are in response 
to the stated agenda for the planned meeting in question.


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    Dated: July 1, 2013.
Aaron Siegel,
Alternate OSD Federal Register Liaison Officer, Department of Defense.
[FR Doc. 2013-16127 Filed 7-3-13; 8:45 am]
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