[Federal Register: August 20, 2004 (Volume 69, Number 161)]
[Notices]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
[Docket No. 040812237-4237-01]
NOAA Five-Year Research Plan Draft and NOAA Twenty-Year Research
Vision Draft
AGENCY: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),
Department of Commerce.
ACTION: Notice and Request for Public Comment.
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SUMMARY: NOAA publishes this notice to announce the availability of the
NOAA 5-Year Research Plan Draft and the NOAA 20-Year Research Vision
Draft for public comment.
DATES: Comments on these draft documents must be submitted by September
30, 2004.
ADDRESSES: The NOAA 5-Year Research Plan Draft will be available at the
following location: ftp://www.oarhq.noaa.gov/review/5 and the NOAA 20-
Year Research Vision Draft will be available at: ftp://www.oarhq.noaa.gov/review/20
.
The public is encouraged to submit comments on the NOAA 5-Year
Research Plan Draft electronically to: Review.5Year@noaa.gov. The
public is encouraged to submit comments on the NOAA 20-Year Research
Vision Draft electronically to: Review.20Year@noaa.gov. For commenters
who do not have access to a computer, comments on both documents may be
submitted in writing to: NOAA Research, c/o Dr. Terry Schaefer, Silver
Spring Metro Center Bldg. 3, Room 11863, 1315 East-West Highway, Silver
Spring, Maryland 20910.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dr. Terry Schaefer, Silver Spring
Metro Center Bldg. 3, Room 11863, 1315 East-West Highway, Silver
Spring, Maryland 20910 (phone (301) 713-2465 ext. 184), during normal
business hours of 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Eastern Time, Monday through Friday,
or visit the NOAA Research Council Web site at: http://www.nrc.noaa.gov/Reports.htm
.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: NOAA is publishing this notice to announce
the availability of the NOAA 5-Year Research Plan Draft and the NOAA
20-Year Research Vision Draft for public comment. The NOAA 5-Year
Research Plan Draft and the NOAA 20-Year Research Vision Draft will be
posted for public comment on August 20, 2004. The NOAA Research Council
is seeking public comment from all interested parties. The NOAA 5-Year
Research Plan Draft and the NOAA 20-Year Research Vision are being
issued for comment only and are not intended for interim use. Suggested
changes will be incorporated, where appropriate, in the final version.
The NOAA 5-Year Research Plan and the NOAA 20-Year Research Vision
are being developed by the NOAA Research Council in response to a
January 2004 recommendation from the NOAA Science Advisory Board that
NOAA take immediate steps to promulgate a NOAA-wide research plan that
is consistent with NOAA's Strategic Plan.
The NOAA 5-Year Research Plan Draft lays the path for how NOAA's
research enterprise will begin to deliver, in the short-term,
improvements to existing forecasting tools. This plan explicitly states
outcomes for the short term and the milestones by which we intend to
measure progress towards achieving those outcomes, framed within a
vision of a future NOAA.
In order to address the longer-term research goals of the agency,
the Research Council has developed the NOAA 20-Year Research Vision
Draft. This high-level document intends to outline some of the
potential products and services that NOAA will provide in the future,
and will further aid environmental forecasting and management over the
next 20 years.
NOAA welcomes all comments on the content of the NOAA 5-Year
Research Plan Draft and the NOAA 20-Year Research Vision Draft. We also
request comments on any inconsistencies perceived within the documents,
and possible omissions of important topics or issues. For any
shortcoming noted within the draft documents, please propose specific
remedies.
Please adhere to the instructions detailed herein for preparing and
submitting your comments. Using the format guidance described below
will facilitate the processing of reviewer comments and assure that all
comments are appropriately considered. Please provide background
information about yourself on the first page of your comments: Your
name(s), organization(s), area(s) of expertise, mailing address(es),
telephone and fax numbers, e-mail address(es). Overview comments should
follow your background information and should be numbered. Comments
that are specific to particular pages, paragraphs, or lines of the
section should follow any overview comments and should identify the
page numbers to which they apply. Please number and print identifying
information at the top of all pages.
Public comments may be submitted from August 20, 2004, through
September 30, 2004.
Dated: August 17, 2004.
Richard D. Rosen,
Chair, NOAA Research Council.
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