Proposed Rules. Notice of meeting

Agency: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Action: Notice of meeting
Citation: FR Doc. 01-2178 · FRL-6936-7

Summary

This notice announces a workshop organized by Eastern Research Group, Inc., a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) contractor, to obtain scientific peer-review of an EPA Office of Research and Development (ORD) draft Research Strategy entitled: Research Strategy—Global Change Research Program.

Dates

The peer review workshop will begin at 8:30 a.m. and end no later than 5 p.m. on Thursday, February 15, 2001, and begin at 8 a.m. and end no earlier than 3 p.m. on Friday, February 16, 2001. Members of the public may attend as observers. Due to limited space, seating at the meetings will be on a first-come first-serve basis.

Supplementary Information

ERG is convening the peer review panel to review the draft Research Strategy—Global Change Research Program. The peer review panel is requested to comment on the extent to which the Research Strategy clearly identifies the appropriate strategic directions for a core research program that will develop the methods, models, and measurements to strengthen the scientific foundation for assessing the potential consequences of global change on human health, ecosystems, and social well-being in the United States. The emphasis of the Program's research and assessment strategy is on understanding the risks and opportunities presented by global change, the interdependent and interactive effects of multiple stresses, the human dimensions of global change ( i.e. , human activities that catalyze, as well as those that respond to global change), and adaptation options. After considering recommendations from extramural advisory groups, as well as from senior scientists from across EPA's Program and Regional Offices, ORD has identified, in the Research Strategy, the strategic directions for its Global Change Research Program. While the Research Strategy delineates the research areas comprising the framework for the Global Change Research Program, the details of the research areas, including the scientific approach at the individual project level, and the anticipated products, performance measures, and schedules, will be included in subsequent research plans and are not a part of this Research Strategy. ERG is undertaking the establishment of a peer review panel to review the Research Strategy. Dated: January 17, 2001. William H. Farland, Acting Deputy Assistant Administrator for Science, Office of Research and Development. [FR Doc. 01-2178 Filed 1-23-01; 8:45 am]