[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 177 (Thursday, September 12, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 74218-74219]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2024-20626]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

[RTID 0648-XV202]


Space Weather Advisory Group Meeting

AGENCY: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 
Commerce.

ACTION: Notice of public meeting.

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SUMMARY: The Space Weather Advisory Group (SWAG) will meet for one and 
a half days on September 25-26, 2024.

DATES: The meeting is scheduled as follows: September 25, 2024, from 1 
p.m. to 5 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time (EDT) and September 26, 2024, from 
9 a.m. to 5 p.m. EDT.

ADDRESSES: The public meeting will be a hybrid event with the SWAG and 
invited guests convening ``in person'' at the Eisenhower Executive 
Office Building, 1650 17th Street NW, Washington, DC, and any public 
participants attending virtually via Webinar. For details on how to 
register for the webinar, please visit https://www.weather.gov/swag. To 
submit written public comments, email: [email protected] by 
September 20, 2024.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Amy Macpherson, National Weather 
Service, NOAA, 7220 NW 101st Terrace, Kansas City, MO 64153; 816-287-
1344 or [email protected]; or visit the SWAG website: https://www.weather.gov/swag.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Pursuant to the Promoting Research and 
Observations of Space Weather to Improve the Forecasting of Tomorrow 
(PROSWIFT) Act, 51 U.S.C. 60601 et seq., the Administrator of NOAA and 
the National Science and Technology Council's Space Weather Operations, 
Research, and Mitigation (SWORM) Subcommittee established the Space 
Weather Advisory Group (SWAG) on April 21, 2021. The SWAG is the only 
Federal Advisory SWAG that advises and informs the interest and work of 
the SWORM. The SWAG is to receive advice from the academic community, 
the commercial space weather sector, and nongovernmental space weather 
end users to carry out the responsibilities of the SWAG set forth in 
the PROSWIFT Act, 51 U.S.C. 60601 et seq.
    The SWAG is directed to advise the SWORM on the following: 
facilitating advances in the space weather enterprise of the United 
States; improving the ability of the United States to prepare for, 
mitigate, respond to, and recover from space weather phenomena; 
enabling the coordination and facilitation of research to operations 
and operations to research, as described in section 60604(d) of title 
51, United States Code; and developing and implementing the integrated 
strategy under 51 U.S.C. 60601(c), including subsequent updates and 
reevaluations. The SWAG shall also conduct a comprehensive survey of 
the needs of users of space weather products to

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identify the space weather research, observations, forecasting, 
prediction, and modeling advances required to improve space weather 
products, as required by 51 U.S.C. 60601(d)(3).

Matters To Be Considered

    The meeting will be open to the public. During the meeting, the 
SWAG will discuss the PROSWIFT Act, 51 U.S.C. 60601 et seq., directed 
duties of the SWAG including the required 51 U.S.C. 60601(d)(3) user 
survey. The second day of the meeting will include the roll-out of the 
first SWAG user-needs survey report. The full agenda will be published 
on the SWAG website: https://www.weather.gov/swag.

Additional Information and Public Comments

    The meeting will be held over one and a half days and will be 
conducted in a hybrid manner (for meeting details see ADDRESSES). 
Please register for the meeting through the website: https://www.weather.gov/swag.
    This event is accessible to individuals with disabilities. For all 
other special accommodation requests, please contact 
[email protected].
    This webinar is a SWAG public meeting and will be recorded and 
transcribed. Public comments directed to the SWAG members and SWAG 
related topics are encouraged. If you have a public comment, you 
acknowledge you will be recorded and are aware you can opt out of the 
meeting. Participation in the meeting constitutes consent to the 
recording. Both the meeting minutes and presentations will be posted to 
the SWAG website (https://www.weather.gov/swag). The agenda, speakers 
and times are subject to change. For updates, please check the SWAG 
website (https://www.weather.gov/swag).
    For other written public comments, please email 
[email protected] by September 20, 2024. Written comments 
received after this date will be distributed to the SWAG but may not be 
reviewed prior to the meeting date. As time allows, public comments 
will be read into the public record during the meeting, or posted to 
the meeting website.

    Dated: September 6, 2024.
AJ Reiss,
Director, Ocean Prediction Center, National Weather Service, National 
Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
[FR Doc. 2024-20626 Filed 9-11-24; 8:45 am]
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