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Code · BILL · 117th Congress · S. 3531 (Reported in Senate) — To require the Federal Government to produce a national climate adaptation and resilience strategy, and for other pur... · Sec. 3

Sec. 3. Chief resilience officer and National Climate Adaptation and Resilience Working Groups

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Not later than 120 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the President shall identify or appoint a Chief Resilience Officer of the United States to serve in the Executive Office of the President. The Chief Resilience Officer shall— serve the President by directing a whole-of-government effort to build resilience to climate change vulnerabilities in the United States (as described in the National Climate Assessment or other relevant analyses identified by the Chief Resilience Officer) in collaboration with existing Federal initiatives and interagency adaptation efforts; and establish Working Groups in accordance with subsection
(b)to facilitate interagency coordination with respect to climate resilience and adaptation. Subject to subparagraph (B), the Chief Resilience Officer shall establish the minimum number of National Climate Adaptation and Resilience Working Groups that is necessary to carry out the duties and purposes described in paragraph (3). The Chief Resilience Officer shall not establish more than 5 Working Groups. Each Working Group shall focus on a topic or series of related topics with respect to climate adaptation and resilience, as determined by the Chief Resilience Officer. Each Working Group shall, under the leadership of the Chief Resilience Officer, with respect to the focus of the Working Group— coordinate a whole-of-government plan to build resilience to the applicable climate change vulnerabilities described in the National Climate Assessment or other relevant analyses identified by the Chief Resilience Officer; and assist in the development of the applicable portions of— the Operations Report; the Strategy; and the Implementation Plan. The Chief Resilience Officer shall serve as chairperson of each Working Group. The President or the Chief Resilience Officer may designate another staff member or member of a Working Group to act temporarily as the chairperson of that Working Group in the absence of the Chief Resilience Officer. In establishing a Working Group, the Chief Resilience Officer shall— identify each Federal agency with operations or organizational units that are relevant to the focus of the Working Group; and appoint 1 member of each Federal agency identified under clause
(i)to represent that Federal agency on the Working Group. In appointing a member of a Working Group under subparagraph (B)(ii), the Chief Resilience Officer shall, to the maximum extent practicable, appoint the head of the portion of the represented agency that is most relevant to the focus of the Working Group. Each member of a Working Group— shall attend meetings of the Working Group; and work to support the duties of the Working Group. Each Working Group shall meet not less frequently than once every 180 days. 3/4 of the members of a Working Group shall constitute a quorum of the Working Group. A member of a Working Group may participate in a meeting of that Working Group through teleconference or similar means. The Chief Resilience Officer shall appoint a permanent employee of a represented agency to serve as Executive Secretary of the Working Groups. The employee appointed as Executive Secretary under clause
(i)shall remain an employee of the agency, department, or program from which the employee was appointed. To carry out the purposes of each Working Group, as described in paragraph (3), each represented agency with a member on the Working Group shall furnish necessary assistance to that Working Group, such as— the detail of employees to the Working Group to perform such functions, consistent with the purposes of the Working Group described in paragraph (3), as the Chief Resilience Officer may assign, including support staff for the Executive Secretary appointed under subparagraph (A)(i); and on request of the Chief Resilience Officer, undertaking special studies for the Working Group as may be appropriate to carry out the functions of the Working Group.
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