[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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