[Federal Register: September 29, 2004 (Volume 69, Number 188)]
[Notices]
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DEPARTMENT OF STATE
[Public Notice 4840]
United States Climate Change Science Program
ACTION: Request expert review of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate
Change (IPCC) and Technology and Economic Assessment Panel (TEAP)
``Special Report on Safeguarding the Ozone Layer and the Global Climate
System: Issues Related to Hydrofluorocarbons and Perfluorocarbons''
(SROC).
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SUMMARY: In addition to periodic assessments of the science, impacts,
and socio-economic aspects of climate change, the IPCC provides, on
request, advice to the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations
Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and its bodies. The
Eighth Conference of Parties to the UNFCCC and the Fourteenth Meeting
of the Parties to the Montreal Protocol invited the IPCC and TEAP to
prepare a special report on ozone and climate by early 2005. The report
assesses scientific and technical information relating to decisions and
policies on alternatives to ozone-depleting substances, thus
contributing to the objectives of both the Montreal Protocol and the
UNFCCC. The report covers chemicals in use or likely to be used in the
next decade. A Steering Committee from IPCC Working Group I and III and
TEAP is overseeing the preparation of this Special Report, which is
being written by a team of over 100 authors under established IPCC
rules and procedures.
The IPCC Secretariat has informed the U.S. Department of State that
the second-order SROC draft is available for expert and Government
review. The Climate Change Science Program Office (CCSPO) is
coordinating collection of U.S. expert comments and the review of these
collations by panels of Federal scientists and program managers to
develop a consolidated U.S. Government submission. Instructions on how
to format comments are available at http://www.climatescience.gov/Library/ipcc/sroc-review.htm
, as is the document itself. Comments must
be sent to CCSPO by 2 November 2004 to be considered for inclusion in
the U.S. Government collation.
Time and Date: Properly formatted comments should be sent to CCSPO at
sroc-USGreview@climatescience.gov by COB Tuesday, 2 November 2004.
Include report acronym and reviewer surname in e-mail subject title to
facilitate processing.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: David Dokken, U.S. Climate Change
Science Program, Suite 250, 1717 Pennsylvania Ave, NW., Washington, DC
20006 (http://www.climatescience.gov).
Dated: September 22, 2004.
Edward J. Fendley
Office Director, Acting, Office of Global Change, Bureau of Oceans and
International Environmental and Scientific Affairs, Department of
State.
[FR Doc. 04-21698 Filed 9-28-04; 8:45 am]
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