[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 217 (Thursday, November 10, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Pages 67873-67874]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2022-24611]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration


Availability for Public Comment on the Draft Fifth National 
Climate Assessment (NCA5) United States Global Change Research Program 
(USGCRP)

AGENCY: Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research (OAR), National 
Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Department of Commerce 
(DOC).

ACTION: Notice of availability for public comment.

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SUMMARY: NOAA, on behalf of USGCRP, is publishing this notice on behalf 
of the United States Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) to 
announce the availability of a draft Fifth National Climate Assessment 
(NCA5) report for public comment. Following revision and further review 
(including by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and 
Medicine), a revised draft will undergo final Federal interagency 
clearance.

DATES: Review comments should be submitted via the web address 
specified below https://review.globalchange.gov/ and must be received 
by 12 weeks after publication of this notice.

ADDRESSES: The draft NCA5 can be accessed in the USGCRP Review and 
Comment System at https://review.globalchange.gov/, and also through 
the USGCRP Open Notices Page (https://www.globalchange.gov/notices). To 
review the draft report and submit comments, reviewers will need to 
register in the Review and Comment system. Comments may be submitted 
only via this online mechanism. Registration details can be found on 
the https://review.globalchange.gov/ home page, and review instructions 
are accessible once a registered user has logged into the system.
    All comments received through this process will be considered by 
the relevant chapter authors without knowledge of the commenters' 
identities. When the final assessment is issued, the comments and the 
commenters' names, along with the authors' responses, will become part 
of the public record and made available on https://www.globalchange.gov. No information submitted by a commenter as part 
of the registration process (such

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as an email address) will be disclosed publicly.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Chris Avery, (202) 419-3474, 
[email protected], U.S. Global Change Research Program.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Background information and additional 
details on NCA5 can be found at https://www.globalchange.gov/nca5.
    The U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) is mandated under 
the Global Change Research Act (GCRA) of 1990 to conduct a quadrennial 
National Climate Assessment (NCA) to evaluate scientific findings and 
uncertainties related to global change, analyze the effects of global 
change, and analyze the current and projected trends in global change, 
both human-induced and natural. Response to this notice is voluntary. 
Responses to this notice may be used by the government for program 
planning on a non-attribution basis. NOAA therefore requests that no 
business proprietary information or copyrighted information be 
submitted in response to this notice. Please note that the U.S. 
Government will not pay for response preparation, or for the use of any 
information contained in the response
    NCA5 fulfills this mandate by synthesizing and assessing the 
science and impacts of climate change across 2 physical science 
chapters, 17 national topic chapters, 10 regional chapters, and 2 
response chapters. Additionally, multiple cross-cutting sections will 
focus on emergent topics of interest across many sectors and regions. 
Appendices articulate some additional details on process, rules, and 
tools used to develop NCA5. NCA5 assesses the science of impacts and 
options that reduce present and future risk in a policy-relevant but 
not policy-prescriptive manner. NCA5 is a product of the USGCRP and is 
overseen by a Federal Steering Committee. Chapter leads were identified 
via an open call for nominations (https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2020/10/15/2020-22729/request-for-public-nominations-for-authors-and-scientifictechnical-inputs-and-notice-of-planned). The 
draft assessment was written by teams of Federal and non-Federal 
authors selected for their demonstrated subject matter expertise and 
publications relevant to the chapter topics outlined in the prospectus 
(https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2020/07/10/2020-14904/request-for-comment-on-the-draft-prospectus-of-the-fifth-national-climate-assessment), and was informed by an array of technical inputs, 
many gathered through an open call (https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2020/10/15/2020-22729/request-for-public-nominations-for-authors-and-scientifictechnical-inputs-and-notice-of-planned). This 
report adheres to the Global Change Research Act (GCRA), Information 
Quality Act and The Foundations for Evidence-based Policymaking Act of 
2018 requirements (https://www.noaa.gov/organization/information-technology/policy-oversight/information-quality) for quality, 
transparency, and accessibility as appropriate for a Highly Influential 
Scientific Assessment.

David Holst,
Chief Financial Officer and Administrative Officer, Office of Oceanic 
and Atmospheric Research, National Oceanic and Atmospheric 
Administration.
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