[Federal Register Volume 79, Number 103 (Thursday, May 29, 2014)]
[Notices]
[Pages 30830-30831]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2014-12443]


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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE

Office of the Secretary


Renewal of Department of Defense Federal Advisory Committees

AGENCY: DoD.

ACTION: Renewal of Federal Advisory Committee.

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SUMMARY: The Department of Defense is publishing this notice to 
announce that it is renewing the charter for the Threat Reduction 
Advisory Committee (``the Committee'').

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

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This committee's charter is being renewed 
under the provisions of the Federal Advisory Committee Act of 1972 (5 
U.S.C. Appendix, as amended), the Government in the Sunshine Act of 
1976 (5 U.S.C. 552b) (``the Sunshine Act''), and 41 CFR 102-3.50(d).
    The Committee is a discretionary Federal advisory committee that 
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 report to the Secretary of Defense through the 
USD(AT&L).
    The Department of Defense (DoD), through the Office of the 
USD(AT&L), the Office of the ASD(NCB) Defense Programs, and the Defense 
Threat Reduction Agency, shall provide support, as deemed necessary, 
for the Committee's performance, and shall ensure compliance with the 
requirements of the FACA, the Sunshine Act, governing Federal statutes 
and regulations, and established DoD policies and procedures.
    The Committee shall be composed of no more than 20 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 or 
the Deputy Secretary of Defense and their appointments will be renewed 
on an annual basis in accordance with DoD policies and procedures. 
Those 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 who are 
full-time or permanent part-time Federal employees will serve as 
regular government employee (RGE) members.
    Committee members shall, with the exception of travel and per diem 
for official travel, serve without compensation, unless otherwise 
authorized by the Secretary of Defense.
    The Secretary of Defense, in consultation with USD(AT&L) and the 
ASD(NCB), shall select the Committee's Chair and Vice Chair from among 
the membership approved by the Secretary of Defense or Deputy Secretary 
of Defense.
    The Secretary of Defense or Deputy 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 or Deputy Secretary of Defense, may serve more than two 
consecutive terms of service, to include its subcommittees, or serve on 
more than two DoD Federal advisory committees at one time.
    Each Committee member is appointed to provide advice on behalf of 
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 DoD, when necessary and consistent with the Committee's mission 
and DoD policies, may establish subcommittees, task forces, or working 
groups to support the Committee. Establishment of subcommittees will be 
based upon written determination, to include terms of reference, by the 
Secretary of Defense, the Deputy Secretary of Defense, or the 
USD(AT&L), as the Committee's sponsor.
    Such subcommittees shall not work independently of the chartered 
Committee, and shall report their

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findings and advice solely to the Committee for full deliberation and 
discussion. Subcommittees have no authority to make decisions and 
recommendations verbally or in writing on behalf of the chartered 
Committee; nor can any subcommittee or its members update or report 
directly to the DoD or to 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 or the Deputy 
Secretary of Defense shall appoint subcommittee members to a term of 
service of one-to-four years with annual renewals, even if the member 
in question is already a Committee member. Subcommittee members shall 
not serve more than two consecutive terms of service, without approval 
by the Secretary of Defense or Deputy Secretary of Defense. 
Subcommittee members are appointed to provide advice on the basis of 
their best judgment without representing a particular point of view and 
in a manner that is free from conflict of interest.
    Subcommittee members, if not full-time or part-time government 
employees, shall be appointed to serve as experts and consultants 
pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 3109 to serve as SGE members. Those individuals 
who are full-time or permanent part-time Federal officers or employees 
shall serve as RGE members, subject to annual renewals. With the 
exception of reimbursement for official Committee-related travel and 
per diem, 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 the 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 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 DFO 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 DFO can be obtained from the GSA's FACA Database--http://www.facadatabase.gov/.
    The DFO, pursuant to 41 CFR 102-3.150, will announce planned 
meetings of the Threat Reduction Advisory Committee. The DFO, 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.

    Dated: May 23, 2014.
Aaron Siegel,
Alternate OSD Federal Register Liaison Officer, Department of Defense.
[FR Doc. 2014-12443 Filed 5-28-14; 8:45 am]
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