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SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Scoping Meetings 

The meetings have been scheduled 

for: 

1. Wednesday, March 16, 2011: 

Escambia County Central Office 

Complex, 3363 West Park Place, 

Pensacola, FL. This is across the street 

from the Escambia County Health 

Department at 1295 West Fairfield Drive 

in Pensacola, FL. 

2. Thursday, March 17, 2011: Bay 

County Government Center, County 

Commissioner Chambers, 840 W. 11th 

Street, Panama City, FL. 

3. Monday, March 21, 2011: The 

Donald Snyder Community Center, 

Main Floor, 2520 Pass Rd., Biloxi, MS. 

4. Tuesday, March 22, 2011: Belle 

Chasse Public Library, 8442 Highway 

23, Belle Chasse, LA. 

5. Wednesday, March 23, 2011: Five 

Rivers—Alabama’s Delta Resource 

Center, 30945 Five Rivers Blvd., 

Spanish Fort, AL. 

6. Thursday, March 24, 2011: HoumaTerrebonne Civic Center, 346 Civic 

Center Blvd., Houma, LA. 

7. Monday, March 28, 2011: The 

Grand Isle Community Center, 3811 

Highway 1, Grand Isle, LA. 

8. Tuesday, March 29, 2011: Holiday 

Inn, 520 Roderick St., Morgan City, LA. 

9. Wednesday, March 30, 2011: Port 

Arthur Civic Center, 3401 Cultural 

Center Drive, Port Arthur, TX. 

10. Thursday, March 31, 2011: Texas 

A & M at Galveston Ocean and Coastal 

Studies Building, Seawolf Parkway, 

Bldg. 3029, Galveston, TX. 

11. Monday, April 4, 2011: U.S. 

Department of Commerce, Herbert 

Hoover Bldg. Auditorium, 1401 

Constitution Ave., NW., Washington, 

DC. 

National Marine Fisheries Service 

(NMFS), National Oceanic and 

Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 

U.S. Department of Commerce is the 

lead agency for the preparation of the 

PEIS on behalf of United States 

Department of the Interior (on behalf of 

the Fish and Wildlife Service, the 

National Park Service, the Bureau of 

Land Management and the Bureau of 

Indian Affairs) (‘‘DOI’’); the Louisiana 

Coastal Protection and Restoration 

Authority, the Louisiana Oil Spill 

Coordinator’s Office, the Louisiana 

Department of Environmental Quality, 

the Louisiana Department of Wildlife 

and Fisheries, and the Louisiana 

Department of Natural Resources, for 

the State of Louisiana; the Mississippi 

Department of Environmental Quality, 

for the State of Mississippi; the Alabama 

Department of Conservation and Natural 

Resources and the Geological Survey of 

Alabama, for the State of Alabama; the 

Florida Department of Environmental 

Protection and the Florida Fish and 

Wildlife Conservation Commission for 

the State of Florida; and the Texas Parks 

and Wildlife Department, Texas General 

Land Office, and the Texas Commission 

on Environmental Quality, for the State 

of Texas. The notice of intent to begin 

restoration scoping and prepare a 

Programmatic Environmental Impact 

Statement published at 76 FR 9327, 

February 17, 2011. 

The National Environmental Policy 

Act (NEPA), 42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq., and 

the Council on Environmental Quality 

regulations implementing NEPA under 

40 CFR Chapter V applies to restoration 

actions by Federal trustees. The Federal 

and state Trustees will be developing a 

PEIS to help guide restoration actions 

associated with the Natural Resource 

Damage Assessment (NRDA) for the Oil 

Spill. The PEIS will assess the 

environmental, social, and economic 

attributes of the affected environment 

and the potential consequences of 

alternative actions to restore, 

rehabilitate, replace, or acquire the 

equivalent of natural resources and 

services potentially injured by the spill. 

A PEIS may generally be prepared to 

evaluate actions that encompass a large 

geographic scale. Tiered analyses 

considering particular restoration 

actions may be required in the future as 

specific plans for implementing 

particular alternatives are established. 

The purpose of the scoping process is 

to identify the concerns of the affected 

public and for the Federal agencies, 

states, and Indian tribes to involve the 

public early in the decision making 

process, facilitate an efficient PEIS 

preparation process, define the issues 

and alternatives that will be examined 

in detail, and save time by ensuring that 

draft documents adequately address 

relevant issues. The scoping process 

reduces paperwork and delay by 

ensuring that important issues are 

addressed early. Following the scoping 

process, the Trustees will prepare a 

draft PEIS, at which time the public will 

be encouraged to comment on the 

document. Similar to the scoping 

process, public comment meetings will 

be held at that time to gather oral and 

written public input on the draft PEIS. 

In compliance with 15 CFR 990.45, 

the Trustees will prepare an 

Administrative Record (AR). The AR 

will include documents that the 

Trustees relied on during the 

development of the PEIS. After 

preparation, the Record will be on file 

at the NOAA Restoration Center in 

Silver Spring, MD, and duplicate copies 

will be maintained at the following Web 

site: http://www.darrp.noaa.gov/. The 

specific web page will be provided in 

the next public notice. 

The draft PEIS document is intended 

to be released for public comment by 

Fall/Winter, 2011. Specific dates and 

times for future events will be 

publicized when scheduled. 

Dated: February 23, 2011. 

Patricia A. Montanio, 

Director, Office of Habitat Conservation, 

National Marine Fisheries Service. 

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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

National Oceanic and Atmospheric 

Administration 

National Climate Assessment 

Development and Advisory Committee; 

Request for Nominations and Notice of 

Meeting 

AGENCY: National Oceanic and 

Atmospheric Administration; 

Department of Commerce. 

ACTION: Request for nominations to the 

National Climate Assessment 

Development and Advisory Committee; 

Notice of Public Meeting. 

SUMMARY: This notice requests 

nominations of qualified individuals for 

the National Climate Assessment 

Development and Advisory Committee 

(NCADAC) and advises the public of an 

upcoming meeting of the NCADAC, 

pending final approval of its members. 

Individuals may self-nominate. 

Nominations received will be evaluated 

and, if appropriate to the overall 

composition of the committee, accepted. 

The NCADAC will meet on April 4, 

2011, from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.; April 5, 

2011, from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m.; and April 

6, 2011, from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. 

DATES: Nominations Deadline: 

Nominations must be received by March 

16, 2011. 

Public Comment Deadline: Public 

comments must be received by the 

NCADAC Designated Federal Official 

(DFO) by 12 p.m. on March 31, 2011, to 

provide sufficient time for distribution 

to the members prior to the meeting. 

Written comments received after 12 

p.m. on March 31, 2011, will be 

distributed to the NCADAC, but may not 

be reviewed prior to the meeting date. 

NCADAC Meeting Date, Time and 

Location: The NCADAC will meet April 

4–6, 2011, at the following times: April 

4, 2011, from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.; April 5, 

2011, from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m.; and April 

6, 2011, from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m.. The 

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Washington, DC, area and will be 

announced at http://globalchange.gov/ 

what-we-do/assessment/notices. The 

meeting may have limited seating 

capacity; seats are available on a first 

come-first served basis. For more 

information about the meeting, see the 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION. 

ADDRESSES: Responses to this request 

for nominations must be submitted 

electronically at http:// 

globalchange.gov/what-we-do/ 

assessment/notices. Any member of the 

public who wishes to submit oral or 

written comments should contact: Dr. 

Kandis Wyatt, the NCADAC Designated 

Federal Official (DFO), NESDIS, SSMC1 

Room 8330, 1335 East-West Highway, 

Silver Spring, Maryland 20910; 

telephone (240) 429–0512, e-mail: 

Kandis.Wyatt@noaa.gov. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Any 

member of the public wishing further 

information concerning the meeting 

should contact: Dr. Kandis Wyatt, the 

NCADAC Designated Federal Official 

(DFO), NESDIS, SSMC1 Room 8330, 

1335 East-West Highway, Silver Spring, 

Maryland 20910; telephone (240) 429– 

0512, e-mail: Kandis.Wyatt@noaa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Federal Advisory Committee 

The National Climate Assessment 

(NCA) is required by the Global Change 

Research Act of 1990. The Secretary of 

Commerce has established the NCADAC 

to produce a NCA that synthesizes and 

summarizes the science and information 

pertaining to current and future impacts 

of climate change upon the United 

States; and to provide advice and 

recommendations toward the 

development of an ongoing, sustainable 

national assessment of global change 

impacts and adaptation and mitigation 

strategies for the Nation. 

Once members are appointed, the 

NCADAC will work with assessment 

staff, agencies and external experts to 

generate inputs to the assessment 

process that come from a variety of 

sources—for example, government 

observing systems, peer reviewed 

literature, and information about 

existing social and physical stresses 

within regions and sectors. The 

NCADAC is charged both with writing 

the report that is due to the President 

and Congress, and with helping to build 

a permanent national process to 

document changes in climate, its 

impacts and associated global changes 

over time. Among the proposed 

approaches is establishing a series of 

national indicators of change. 

Through this Federal Register Notice, 

the Department of Commerce solicits 

nominations for the NCADAC. Since the 

NCADAC will provide advice about the 

process of assessment as well as write 

a report, a very wide range of expertise 

is required. In considering potential 

members of this committee, persons 

with the following types of expertise 

were sought: Sectoral expertise, 

including the natural environment, 

agriculture and forestry, energy, land 

cover and land use, water resources, 

transportation, health, human social 

systems, biodiversity, coastal and 

marine resources; systems expertise 

including oceans, atmosphere, 

biogeochemical cycles, etc.; climate 

modeling, climate impacts, atmospheric 

science, land use and land cover 

change; assessment process experts, 

including people who are familiar with 

economic assessment and valuation, 

vulnerability assessment, adaptation, 

mitigation, and integrated assessment; 

international issues and assessment 

components; data systems development 

and management; communications, 

stakeholder engagement and public 

processes; urban systems and 

infrastructure; homeland security; 

environmental justice and cultural 

resources and indigenous perspectives. 

Persons with a range of perspectives are 

sought, including people with 

experience in private industry, state, 

local, and regional government, 

academia, and non-governmental 

organizations, and drawn from a broad 

geographic distribution. 

Nominations must include a no more 

than two-page resume outlining the 

qualifications, experience and education 

of the individual being nominated, as 

well as a paragraph describing how the 

individual will strengthen the ability of 

the committee to meet its charge, 

relative to the charter for the NCADAC 

at http://globalchange.gov/ 

what-we-do/assessment/charter and list 

of expertise requirements included in 

this Federal Register Notice. Nominees 

should have the ability to work 

effectively in a committee process, be 

prepared for a government clearance 

review, and expect to dedicate 

significant time to NCADAC activities. 

Members of the committee are not 

compensated for their time, but their 

travel expenses associated with 

attending committee meetings are 

reimbursed. Information obtained as a 

result of this request may be used by the 

government for program planning on a 

non-attribution basis. Do not include 

any information that might be 

considered proprietary or confidential. 

NCADAC Meeting 

The NCADAC will meet on April 4– 

6, 2011, at the following times: April 4, 

2011, from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.; April 5, 

2011, from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m.; and April 

6, 2011, from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. During 

this public meeting, the NCADAC will 

discuss initial plans for development of 

a first draft of the NCADAC’s Report to 

Congress and the President, as well as 

advising on the development of the 

Assessment process. 

The proposed approach to the 

Assessment and a draft outline of a 

report to be prepared in 2013 was 

published in a Federal Register Notice 

dated September 7, 2010, and available 

at http://www.globalchange.gov/whatwe-do/assessment/. The Interim 

strategic plan for the NCA is available 

at http://globalchange.gov/what-we-do/ 

assessment/strategic-plan. The Charter 

for the Assessment was published in a 

Federal Register Notice dated December 

27, 2010, and is available at http:// 

globalchange.gov/what-we-do/ 

assessment/charter. 

The NCA outline will evolve over the 

coming months and years in response to 

continued input from experts, peer 

review, and the public. In the months 

after the first meeting of the NCADAC, 

another Federal Register Notice will be 

issued that provides an updated outline 

and timeframe for the NCA process. 

There are multiple ways that the 

Assessment provides opportunities for 

public comment and engagement. They 

include public meetings, an e-newsletter 

that provides an update on Assessment 

activities every 6 weeks, a Web site that 

is regularly updated, and Federal 

Register Notices. 

Special Accommodations: These 

meetings are physically accessible to 

people with disabilities. Requests for 

special accommodations may be 

directed no later than 12 p.m. on March 

30, 2011, to Dr. Kandis Wyatt, the 

NCADAC Designated Federal Official 

(DFO), NESDIS, SSMC1 Room 8330, 

1335 East-West Highway, Silver Spring, 

Maryland 20910; telephone (240) 429– 

0512, e-mail: Kandis.Wyatt@noaa.gov. 

Additional Information and Public 

Comments: The NCADAC meeting will 

be open to public participation and will 

include a 30-minute public comment 

period on April 5, 2011, from 9 a.m. to 

9:30 a.m. (Please check the 

www.globalchange.gov/what-we-do/ 

assessment/notices Web site to confirm 

this time). Each individual or group 

requesting to make a verbal presentation 

will be limited to a total time of five (5) 

minutes. If there are no prior requests to 

speak, or time remains in the public 

comment period, there will be a call to 

the audience for comments, limited to 5 

minutes each. Written comments will 

also be accepted and 50 paper copies as 

well as an electronic version should be 


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received by the NCADAC Designated 

Federal Official (DFO) by 12 p.m. on 

March 31, 2011, to provide sufficient 

time for distribution to the members 

prior to the meeting. Written comments 

received after 12 p.m. on March 31, 

2011, will be distributed to the 

NCADAC, but may not be reviewed 

prior to the meeting date. Seats will be 

available to the public on a first-come, 

first-served basis. 

Proposed Nominees to the NCADAC 

Biographies of proposed nominees of 

the NCADAC are available at http:// 

globalchange.gov/what-we-do/ 

assessment/proposedFACmembers. 

Non-Federal 

Daniel Abbasi, Mission Point Capital 

Partners 

Dr. E. Virginia Armbrust, University of 

Washington 

Dr. Rosina Bierbaum, University of 

Michigan 

Maria Blair, Rockefeller Foundation 

James Buizer, Arizona State University 

Dr. Lynne Carter, Louisiana State 

University 

Dr. F. Stuart Chapin III, University of 

Alaska 

Dr. Camille Coley, Florida Atlantic 

University 

Jan Dell, P.E., CH2MHill 

Pla ́cido dos Santos, Arizona Department 

of Water Resources (ret) 

Guido Franco, California Energy 

Commission 

Mary Gade, Gade Environmental Group, 

LLC 

Dr. Aris Georgakakos, Georgia Institute 

of Technology 

Dr. David Hales, College of the Atlantic 

Dr. Mark Howden, Australian 

Commonwealth Scientific and 

Industrial Research Organisation 

Dr. Peter Kareiva, The Nature 

Conservancy 

Dr. Kenneth Kunkel, North Carolina 

State University and NOAA 

Cooperative Institute for Climate and 

Satellites 

Dr. Rattan Lal, The Ohio State 

University 

Dr. Arthur Lee, Chevron Corporation 

Dr. Jo-Ann Leong, University of Hawai’i 

Dr. Diana Liverman, University of 

Arizona and Oxford University 

Dr. Edward Maibach, George Mason 

University 

Dr. Jerry Melillo, Marine Biological 

Laboratory 

Dr. Susanne Moser, Susanne Moser 

Research & Consulting, Stanford 

University, and University of 

California-Santa Cruz 

Dr. Richard Moss, Joint Global Change 

Research Institute, Pacific Northwest 

National Laboratory and University of 

Maryland 

Dr. Philip Mote, Oregon State University 

Dr. Marie O’Neill, University of 

Michigan 

Terese Richmond, Gordon Derr, LLP 

Dr. Andrew Rosenberg, University of 

New Hampshire and Conservation 

International 

Dr. Richard Schmalensee, 

Massachusetts Institute of Technology 

Joel Smith, Stratus Consulting 

Dr. Donald Wuebbles, University of 

Illinois 

Dr. Gary Yohe, Wesleyan University 

Federal Ex-Officio 

Dr. John Balbus, Department of Health 

and Human Services 

William Breed, U.S. Agency for 

International Development 

Dr. Gary Geernaert, Department of 

Energy 

Dr. John Hall, Department of Defense 

Alice Hill, Department of Homeland 

Security (pending charter revision) 

Dr. Len Hirsch, Smithsonian Institution 

Dr. Patricia Jacobberger-Jellison, 

National Aeronautics and Space 

Administration 

Thomas Karl, Subcommittee on Global 

Change Research and National 

Oceanic and Atmospheric 

Administration 

Cathleen Kelly, White House Council on 

Environmental Quality and 

Adaptation Task Force (pending 

charter revision) 

Dr. Chester Koblinsky, National Oceanic 

and Atmospheric Administration 

Linda Lawson, Department of 

Transportation 

Dr. Robert O’Connor, National Science 

Foundation 

Dr. Jonathan Pershing, Department of 

State 

Dr. Michael Slimak, Environmental 

Protection Agency 

Dr. Alan Thornhill, Department of the 

Interior 

Dr. Margaret Walsh, U.S. Department of 

Agriculture 

Dated: February 23, 2011. 

Gary Locke, 

Secretary of Commerce. 

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United States Patent and Trademark 

Office 

Submission for OMB Review; 

Comment Request 

The United States Patent and 

Trademark Office (USPTO) will submit 

to the Office of Management and Budget 

(OMB) for clearance the following 

proposal for collection of information 

under the provisions of the Paperwork 

Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. Chapter 35). 

Agency: United States Patent and 

Trademark Office (USPTO). 

Title: Native American Tribal Insignia 

Database. 

Form Number(s): None. 

Agency Approval Number: 0651– 

0048. 

Type of Request: Revision of a 

currently approved collection. 

Burden: 5 hours annually. 

Number of Respondents: 8 responses 

per year. 

Avg. Hours Per Response: The USPTO 

estimates that a recognized Native 

American tribe will require an average 

of 30 minutes (0.5 hours) to complete a 

request to record an official insignia, 

including time to prepare the 

appropriate documents and submit the 

completed request to the USPTO. 

Needs and Uses: The Trademark Law 

Treaty Implementation Act of 1998 

(Pub. L. 105–330, § 302, 112 Stat. 3071) 

required the USPTO to study issues 

surrounding the protection of the 

official insignia of federally and staterecognized Native American tribes 

under trademark law. At the direction of 

Congress, the USPTO created a database 

containing the official insignia of 

recognized Native American tribes. 

The insignia database serves as a 

reference for examining attorneys when 

determining the registrability of a mark 

that may falsely suggest a connection to 

the official insignia of a Native 

American tribe. The entry of an official 

insignia into the database does not 

confer any rights to the tribe that 

submitted the insignia, and entry is not 

the legal equivalent of registering the 

insignia as a trademark under 15 U.S.C. 

1051 et seq. 

This information collection is used by 

the USPTO to enter an official insignia 

submitted by a federally or staterecognized Native American tribe into 

the database. There are no forms 

associated with this collection. 

Affected Public: Tribal governments. 

Frequency: On occasion. 

Respondent’s Obligation: Required to 

obtain or retain benefits. 

OMB Desk Officer: Nicholas A. Fraser, 

e-mail: 

Nicholas_A._Fraser@omb.eop.gov. 

Once submitted, the request will be 

publicly available in electronic format 

through the Information Collection 

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Paper copies can be obtained by: 

• E-mail: 

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subject line of the message. 

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