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Federal Geographic Data Committee

Coordination Group Meeting

Tuesday, June 16, 2015

9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Eastern

POC for entrance to MIB: Leslie Harmon: 202-208-4413 

Location: Main Interior Building, 

Rachel Carson Room

1849 C Street, NW

Washington, DC

DRAFT AGENDA

9:00 – 9:05 Welcome and Introductions Ivan DeLoatch, FGDC OS

9:05 – 9:15 Previous Meeting Action Item Review Lucia Foulkes, FGDC OS

9:15 – 9:35 FGDC Business Highlights Ken Shaffer, FGDC OS

9:35 – 10:05 Wetlands Subcommittee Report Bill Wilen, FWS

10:05 – 10:35 User Historical Data Working Group Report Jacqueline Nolan, LOC

10:35 – 10:50 3DEP Stakeholder Briefing Dick Vraga, USGS, Vicki 

Lukas, USGS

10:50 – 11:10 Coordination Group Role on New Datums Juliana Blackwell, NOAA

11:10 – 11:20 Other Agency Announcements Ivan Deloatch, FGDC OS

11:20-11:30 Action Item Review, and next meeting agenda items Lucia Foulkes, FGDC OS

11:30 Adjourn
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*Read-ahead Documents 

Other Relevant documents

* Read-ahead documents are located at the my.usgs.gov site for member access.

CG Meeting Planning

 Coordination Group Meetings Topics (in addition to the following standing items)

- Welcome and Introductions; - Previous Meeting Action Item Review; - FGDC Business Update; - Other 

Agency Announcements - Summary of Action Items / Next Meeting Agenda; - Adjourn

- All meetings are scheduled from 9am to 12pm EST, unless otherwise noted

June 16, 2015

(Rachel Carson Room, Main Interior Building)

Wetlands Subcommittee (Bill Wilen); User Historical Data WG (Jacqueline Nolan)

July 14, 2015

(Kiowa Room, Main Interior Building)

Standards W.G (Julie Binder Maitra); Cadastral Subcommittee (Don Buhler)

August 11, 2015

(Rachel Carson Room, Main Interior Building)

NDOP Subcommittee (Shirley Hall); Vegetation Subcommittee (Marianne Burke)

September 8, 2015

(Rachel Carson Room, Main Interior Building)

Cultural Resources (Deidre McCarthy); Metadata Working Group (Jennifer Carlino)

October 13, 2015

(Rachel Carson Room, Main Interior Building)

Geologic Subcommittee (Dave Soller)

November 10, 2015

(Rachel Carson Room, Main Interior Building)

National Boundaries Working Group (Lynda Lyptrap);Geodetic Control Subcommittee

(Juliana Blackwell)

December 8, 2015

(Rachel Carson Room, Main Interior Building)

Marine and Coastal Spatial Data (Tony LaVoi)
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Federal Geographic Data Committee

Coordination Group Meeting

ACTION ITEMS

Through June 16, 2015

Due Date: July 14, 2015

Lead: Coordination Group Action#: 20150113-02

Action: The Coordination Group will create a CG 2015 work plan.

Contact: Lucia Foulkes, FGDC OS, lfoulkes@usgs.gov

Resolution/ 

Response:

Complete

Lead: John Mahoney Action#: 20150113-05

Action: The Coordination Group will hold a working session to identify responsibilities on the NSDI 

Strategic Plan Implementation actions and use it as basis for the CG 2015 work plan. 

Contact: John Mahoney, FGDC OS, jmahoney@usgs.gov

Resolution/ 

Response:

Working session was provided on May 12.

Complete

Lead: Coordination Group Action#: 20150113-09

Action: The Coordination Group will discuss and determine what their role should be in the coordination 

needed for the upcoming datum change, in collaboration with the National Geodetic Survey.

Contact: Lucia Foulkes, FGDC OS, lfoulkes@usgs.gov

Resolution/ 

Response:

Coordination Group members discussed possible roles at the June 16, CG meeting. 

Closed

Lead: Coordination Group Members Action#: 20150421-03

Action: Coordination Group members will submit names of project management software and 

requirements they recommend to Lucia Foulkes.

Contact: Lucia Foulkes, FGDC OS, lfoulkes@usgs.gov

Resolution/ 

Response:

Names of project management software products or requirements were not received as of June 16.

Complete

Lead: FGDC Secretariat Action#: 20150421-04

Action: The FGDC Secretariat will send the CG an email requesting a chair and individuals to serve on the 

Architecture and Technology Working Group. A brief description of the role and time 

requirements will be included.

Contact: Lucia Foulkes, FGDC OS, lfoulkes@usgs.gov

Resolution/ 

Response:

Email note was sent to Coordination Group members on May 11.
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Complete

Lead: FGDC Secretariat Action#: 20150421-05

Action: The FGDC Secretariat will distribute the latest version of the Guidance on the Selection and 

Appraisal of Geospatial Content of Enduring Value” document to the Coordination Group, Theme 

Leads, and Dataset managers for review. Comments are due back to Butch Lazorchak 

(wlaz@loc.gov) with a copy to Lucia Foulkes (lfoulkes@usgs.gov) by May 6, 2015. The 

Coordination Group will determine if document is ready for a vote at the May meeting.

Contact: Lucia Foulkes, FGDC OS, lfoulkes@usgs.gov; Butch Lazorchak. LOC, wlaz@loc.gov

Resolution/ 

Response:

Comments were received and incorporated into the document. 

Complete

Lead: FGDC Secretariat Action#: 20150512-01

Action: The FGDC Secretariat will submit a revised version of the "Guidance on the Selection and 

Appraisal of Geospatial Content of Enduring Value" document to the Coordination Group.

Contact: Lucia Foulkes, FGDC OS, lfoulkes@usgs.gov

Resolution/ 

Response:

Revised document was emailed to the Coordination Group on May 14.

Complete

Lead: Coordination Group Action#: 20150512-02

Action: The Coordination Group will review the May 12, 2015 CG draft charter and will send comments to 

Lucia Foulkes no later than May 22nd. If not issues are found, the draft will be put for a vote. If 

there are any issues, they will be addressed at the June 16 meeting.

Contact: Lucia Foulkes, FGDC OS, lfoulkes@usgs.gov

Resolution/ 

Response:

Comments received were incorporated into the draft charter on May 26.

Due Date: Pending

Lead: FGDC Secretariat Action#: 20150512-03

Action: A list of all agency participants across various FGDC committees, workgroups and subcommittees 

and including NGDA theme leads and dataset managers will be shared with the Coordination 

Group once the theme leads and dataset managers data is uploaded into MMA

Contact: Lucia Foulkes, FGDC OS, lfoulkes@usgs.gov

Resolution/ 

Response:

Due Date: June 16, 2015

Lead: Coordination Group Members Action#: 20150512-04

Action: A volunteer from the Coordination Group is needed to participate in the outreach and 

communications strategy plan efforts. Nominations should be sent to Lucia Foulkes 

(lfoulkes@usgs.gov) and John Mahoney (jmahoney@usgs.gov). 

Contact: Lucia Foulkes, FGDC OS, lfoulkes@usgs.gov, John Mahoney, FGDC OS, jmahoney@usgs.gov

Resolution/ 

Response:
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Complete

Lead: FGDC Secretariat Action#: 20150512-05

Action: The FGDC Secretariat will email the coordination group the presentations on Licensed Data Forum 

and HUD eGIS program.

Contact: Lucia Foulkes, FGDC OS, lfoulkes@usgs.gov

Resolution/ 

Response:

Presentations were emailed to the Coordination Group on May 13.

July 31, 2015

Lead: Juliana Blackwell, National Geodetic Survey (NGS) Action#: 20150616-01

Action: Juliana Blackwell, NGS, will coordinate with Vicki Lukas, USGS, on a proposal for an 

elevation theme subcommittee governance structure to be shared with the Coordination for 

further recommendation to the Steering Committee. The charter of the Subcommittee on 

Ocean Science and Technology will be included in the proposal.

Contact: Juliana Blackwell, NGS, juliana.blackwell@noaa.gov

Resolution/ 

Response:

July 14, 2015

Lead: FGDC Secretariat Action#: 20150616-02

Action: The FGDC Secretariat will post the Geodetic Datums videos on FGDC’s website with a 

message to raise awareness on NGS tools, product, and services in preparation for the new 

datums.

Contact: Lucia Foulkes, FGDC OS, lfoulkes@usgs.gov

Resolution/ 

Response:

July 14, 2015

Lead: Coordination Group members Action#: 20150616-03

Action: The Coordination Group member agencies are invited to provide Juliana Blackwell, NGS, a point 

of contact to be part of the new datum initiative efforts.

Contact: Lucia Foulkes, FGDC OS, lfoulkes@usgs.gov

Resolution/ 

Response:

July 14, 2015

Lead: FGDC Secretariat Action#: 20150616-04

Action: The FGDC Secretariat will send the revised CG charter to the Coordination Group for an electronic 

vote.

Contact: Lucia Foulkes, FGDC OS, lfoulkes@usgs.gov

Resolution/ 

Response:
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ID

(yyyymmdd-

#)

Decision/Description

Decisions provide a position/foundation on which actions are taken.

20150616-01 The Coordination Group meeting on July 14 will be a webinar meeting only.

20150616-02 The Coordination Group meeting scheduled for August 11 has been cancelled.

Complete

Lead: Jacquie Nolan, Library of Congress Action#: 20150616-05

Action: Jacquie Nolan, LOC, will send information to Lucia Foulkes on the Symposium Announcement of 

the Board on Geographic Names 125th Anniversary to be posted on FGDC’s website.

Contact: Jacquie Nolan, LOC, jnol@loc.gov

Resolution/ 

Response:

The symposium announcement was posted on FGDC’s website on June 18th. 
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Federal Geographic Data Committee

Coordination Group Meeting

MEETING MINUTES

 June 16, 2015

(Note: Primary CG members are indicated in blue text; alternate CG

members are indicated in red text)

√ Coordination Group

Attendees

Organization √ Attendee Organization

x Shirley Hall USDA- Farm Service

Agency

Robert Welsh DOI – Office of

Surface Mining

x Marisa Capriotti USDA – Natural

Resources

Conservation Service

Christina Lett DOI – US Fish &

Wildlife Service

Betsy Kanalley USDA – US Forest

Service

x Bill Wilen DOI – US Fish &

Wildlife Service

Marianne Burke USDA – US Forest

Service

x Ivan DeLoatch DOI – USGS/FGDC;

Chair, CG

x Juliana Blackwell DOC – National

Geodetic Survey

x Dick Vraga DOI – USGS

Tony LaVoi DOC – NOAA Edward Hugler Dept of Labor –

OASAM

x Lynda Liptrap DOC – Census

Bureau

Cecelia Henderson Dept of State

Anne O’Connor DOC – Census

Bureau

Mark Bradford DOT - Research &

Innovative

Technology Admin

William Spencer James DOD – NGA Raquel Hunt DOT – Federal

Railroad Admin

David LaBranche DOD – DISDI Jimmy Amoaka-Atta Dept of Treasury

Mitchell Fiedler DOD – DISDI Pheakdey Lim Dept of Veterans’

Affairs

Nancy Blyler DOD – US Army

Corps of Engineers

Tom Garin Dept of Veterans’

Affairs

x Bill Nye DOD – US Army

Corps of Engineers

Wendy Blake-Coleman EPA

Tai Phan Dept. of Education –

Institute of Ed

Statistics

Dave Catlin EPA

Vacant Dept. of Energy Donald Campbell FCC
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Stephanie Foster DHHS – CDC Michel Kareis GSA

Lew Summers DHS – Office of the

CIO

George Deyckere GSA

Dennis Hardy DHS x Jacqueline Nolan Library of Congress

x Jon Sperling HUD – Policy

Development &

Research

Vacant NASA

Salvatore Sclafani HUD - x of

Community Planning

& Development

Vacant NASA

David Chase HUD – Policy

Development &

Research

Vacant NARA

Antoinette Sebastian HUD – Office of

Environment &

Energy

Pamela Stephens National Science

Foundation

x Don Buhler DOI – BLM Stuart Reiter Nuclear Regulatory

Commission

Doug Vandxegraft DOI – Bureau of

Ocean Energy Mgmt,

Regulation &

Enforcement

Asghar Noor Small Business

Administration

Steven Schwartz DOI - BOEMRE x David Timmons Social Security

Administration

David Duran DOI – Nat’l Park

Service

Ray Mitchell Tennessee Valley

Authority

Tim Smith DOI – Nat’l Park

Service

Lucie Vogel HHS

Other Attendees Organization Attendee Organization

x Roxanne Lamb FGDC OS Gita Urban-Mathieu FGDC OS

x Lucia Foulkes FGDC OS Marcia McNiff DOI-USGS

x John Mahoney FGDC OS Bradley Macpherson DOI-USGS

x Julie Maitra FGDC OS Lisa Mcbride USDA-Forrest

Service

x Jennifer Carlino FGDC OS Anne Ball NOAAx

x Vaishal Sheth FGDC OS Charles Hickman DOI-USGS

x Michel Kareis GSA x Ken Shaffer FGDC OS
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Welcome and Introductions, Ivan DeLoatch, FGDC OS

Ivan DeLoatch, FGDC OS, welcomed members and provided a brief overview of the agenda.

Member’s introductions were made.

Previous Meeting Action Item Review, Lucia Foulkes, FGDC OS

Actions from the meeting in May were reviewed.

FGDC Business Highlights, Ken Shaffer, FGDC OS

FGDC Business Highlights (pdf)

FGDC Business Report (pdf)

The Steering Committee last met on June 11. The FGDC Chair Jennifer Gimbel posed the 

following challenge to the Steering Committee: What can the FGDC achieve that will make a 

real impact/difference, in the next 18 months? Members were asked to provide their suggestions 

and ideas on this challenge. The NGAC meeting took place on June 9 and 10; the agenda was 

briefly discussed. John Mahoney, FGDC OS, reported on the subcommittees activities. The 

Crowd-Sourced Data Subcommittee organized a spotlight session, and a follow up Forum on 

Crowd-Sourced Geospatial Data and Citizen Science. The spotlight session highlighted key 

issues related to crowd-sourced geospatial data and discussed possible roles for FGDC/NGAC. A 

follow up meeting on Crowd-Sourced Geospatial Data and Citizen Science was held the next 

day. The objective of meeting was to provide a forum to share activities of interest to the 

geospatial community on the application of crowd-sourced data and citizen science, as well as to 

identify opportunities for sharing best practices, and for collaboration on critical projects. 

The NGAC approved the 3DEP subcommittee paper providing comments on the NAPA Flood 

Mapping Report. Additionally, The NGAC approved the following resolution:

“The NGAC endorses the following recommendation in the National Academy of Public 

Administration’s (NAPA) “FEMA Flood Mapping: Enhancing Coordination to 

Maximize Performance” report: Recommendation 15: The Office of Management and 

Budget should use the 3DEP implementation plan for nationwide elevation data 

collection to guide the development of the President’s annual budget request. The NGAC 

encourages the FGDC agencies and OMB to consider and take action to implement this 

recommendation.

Jennifer Gimbel, FGDC chair posed a challenge to NGAC members on identifying achievable, 

impactful goals in the next 18 months. NGAC members proposed to bring to completion the 

current initiatives that are in progress before starting new ones. NGAC members identified the 

following focus area for the next 18 months: Data Initiatives, Communication Strategy and the 

Geospatial Platform. Activities involved in each focus area were discussed. 

The NGAC call for nominations announcement was sent on June 8. John Mahoney encouraged 

CG members to share this information with partners. Nominations received through this call may 

be used to fill vacancies that become available in 2015 and 2016.

The GAO Engagement status update noted that a letter is being drafted from the FGDC Chair to 

the action leads directing their execution of the recommendations. 
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The Executive Committee is voting on their agencies’ commitment to support the Geospatial 

Interoperability Reference Architecture (GIRA) as a collaborative environment on the Geospatial 

Platform. 

The status of the NGDA Management Plan noted changes in the total number of datasets 

registered to the Data.gov/Geospatial Platform registry. Tables identified changes that consisted 

of additions, removals, reorganization, and removal of duplications of NGDAs. The dataset list 

was refined during the registration process, as a result, the total number of NGDAs changed from 

188 changed to 179. The NGDA datasets in Geoplatform.gov/Data.gov Catalog represent 92% of 

NGDA datasets.

Ken Shaffer reported that the Geospatial Investment Definitions and Budget Report Codes 

document is being reviewed by the Executive Committee. A meeting will be organized with the 

Executive Committee to discuss next steps. 

The NGDA Data Themes and Framework Data were discussed. The FGDC will do a comparison 

on the alignment of Framework Themes to NGDA Themes and notate the associated linkage in 

the NGDA Themes list, in a similar fashion as OMB Circular A-16, Appendix E. Framework 

data comprise of seven themes that are used by most GIS applications. The NGDA Data Themes 

list will be annotated to identify which of the 16 themes aligns with the Framework Themes.

The NSDI Strategic Plan recent accomplishments were noted as follows:

 Completed Geospatial Interoperability Reference Architecture document 

 Established/enhanced Geospatial Platform Marketplace 

 Established/enhanced A-16 Theme Communities on Geospatial Platform 

 Awarded Cloud Services contract 

 Executed multiple NGDA implementation actions 

 Completed draft Geospatial Investment Definitions 

 Developed draft NSDI/Geospatial Platform Communications Strategy Outline 

It was noted that Jerry Johnston provided an update to the Steering Committee on new 

enhancements and capabilities of the Geospatial Platform. 

An update on FGDC Standards was provided. The following standards are pending Steering 

Committee endorsement:

 Aeronautical Information Exchange Model (AIXM) 5.1

 ISO/IEC 15444-1:2004 Technical Corrigenda 1:2007 and 2:2008 JPEG 2000

 OGC GeoPackage 1.0

 Geopolitical Entities, Names, and Codes (GENC) Standard Edition 2

 GeoRSS-Simple and GeoRSS-GML

At the July 14, Coordination Group meeting, there will be a presentation and discussion on 

Objective 3.1 “Lead and participate in the development and coordination of national and 

international standards, of the NSDI”.
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Wetlands Subcommittee Report, Bill Wilen, FWS

Wetlands Subcommittee Report (pdf)

Bill Wilen, FWS, reported on activities of the Wetlands Subcommittee. In 2014, the National 

Wetlands Inventory (NWI) became a National Geospatial Data Asset. The National Wetlands 

Inventory dataset is arguably the largest polygonal dataset in the public sector, if not the largest, 

with over 20 million polygons. The general functions of the Wetlands Mapper such as data layer, 

navigation and printing capabilities were shown. The Wetlands Mapper is the primary interface 

to the wetlands data, which can be accessed from most internet browsers. 

User Historical Data Working Group Report, Jacqueline Nolan, LOC

User Historical Data Working Group Report (pdf)

Jacquie Nolan, Library of Congress, provided an update on the User/Historical Data Working 

Group (U/HDWG). Recent discussions of the U/HDWG meeting included updates on the 

“Guidance on the Selection and Appraisal of Geospatial Content of Enduring Value” document, 

and the USGS Offline Archive Media Trade Study. 

The Coordination Group, NGDA Theme Leads and Dataset Managers were to review the 

“Guidance on the Selection and Appraisal of Geospatial Content of Enduring Value” document

and provide any comments to Butch Lazorchak and Lucia Foulkes by May 6. Members will be 

prepared to comment on the document’s readiness for a CG vote for recommendation to the 

Steering Committee for adoption as a FGDC guidance document. 

The USGS has conducted offline, archive media trade studies every other year since 2001. These 

studies are intended to inform those interested in market options, and possible factors relevant in 

making archive media trade studies. These are considered best practices by NARA. The latest, 

compiled in FY2014, is available publicly. Exploration topics for FY 2015 were noted as 

follows:

 Continue Working Group outreach to all interested parties, both inside and outside the 

Federal Government

 Continue to provide input on the Geospatial Platform

 Continue to engage and assist with FGDC efforts to document data stewards and dataset 

managers as part of the National Geospatial Data Asset Management Plan

 Continue work to incorporate the “Guidance on the Selection and Appraisal of Geospatial 

Content of Enduring Value” document into future FGDC guidance

 Continue to provide coordinated input to the Geospatial Data Preservation Resource 

Center (www.geopreservation.org) 

 Explore the impacts and costs of government shutdowns on access to, and preservation 

of, historical data

 Continue work with the International Council for Science CODATA Task Group 

(http://www.codata.org/) on data at risk, identifying resources at risk and exploring early 

warning and rescue efforts.
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3DEP Stakeholder Briefing, Dick Vraga, USGS, Vicki Lukas, USGS

3DEP Stakeholder Meeting (pdf)

Dick Vraga, USGS, reported on the 3D Elevation Program (3DEP) Stakeholder meeting held in 

April. The meeting had 30 participants and 25 observers. The meeting objective was to provide 

status, discuss strategies, challenges, and collaboration opportunities to fully implement 3DEP. 

The 3DEP proposed governance structure was shown and briefly discussed. Meeting discussions 

included:

 How to bring independent stakeholders into a Statewide plan?

 What other organizations should be invited?

 Tools to help outreach

 Funding 

 COGO Report Card

Actions from the meeting were noted as follows:

 MAPPS proposed to form a 3DEP coalition and invite the broader, non-Federal 

community to join the effort. A follow on meeting will be organized and some of the 

suggestions for materials will be taken up in that group. 

 The USGS will continue outreach to other Federal agencies and will consider the 

suggestions for tools and materials that will support general 3DEP communication. 

 North Carolina will share additional 

Ms. Juliana Blackwell, National Geodetic Survey, (NGS) requested FGDC to review and 

consider the 3DEP Proposed Governance Structure.

Action: Juliana Blackwell, NGS, will coordinate with Vicki Lukas, USGS, on a proposal for an 

elevation theme subcommittee governance structure to be shared with the Coordination for 

further recommendation to the Steering Committee. The charter of the Subcommittee on Ocean 

Science and Technology will be included in the proposal.

Coordination Group Role on New Datums, Juliana Blackwell, NOAA

Role of Coordination Group in New Datums (pdf)

Juliana Blackwell, DOC’s National Geodetic Survey, (NGS) provided a brief description of the 

role of geodetic control. She highlighted that all NSDI Framework data and user’s applications 

data require geodetic control to accurately register spatial data. Ms. Blackwell reported that a

Geospatial Summit was organized to inform and educate federal agencies on the impact on new 

datums. A summary report will available online in August 2015. She reported that agencies 

participating in the Geo Summit noted the benefits of the new datums as follows:

 USGS: Improved 3DEP and other topographical products

 FEMA: More accurate horizontal and vertical coordinates for the National Flood 

Insurance Program (NFIP)
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 USACE: Consistency of vertical datums across the country

 FAA: More closely aligns the US National Airspace System (US NAS) to global system 

(WGS 84) 

 NGA: More closely aligned with WGS 84 and ITRF

Ms. Blackwell highlighted that the feedback received from the summit showed a major need for 

user-friendly transformation tools and routines. 

The activities that agencies can do to prepare for the upcoming datum change were discussed.

Both a new geometric and a new geopotential (vertical) datum will be released in 2022. NGS 

will provide tools for geospatial users to transform between the new and old datums. Ms. 

Blackwell highlighted that FGDC plays integral roles in raising awareness and preparing 

constituents. Additionally, she noted potential FGDC roles to support the new datum initiative as 

follows:

 Support NGS and FGCS

 Serve as central contact

 Inform others

 Promote and include in strategic plans

 Provide feedback

Ms. Blackwell pointed out that part of a strategic plan could include to do pilot project with 

member agencies or a particular dataset in preparation for the transition.

Action: The FGDC Secretariat will post the Geodetic Datums videos on FGDC’s website with a 

message to raise awareness on NGS tools, product, and services for agencies in preparation for 

the new datums.

Action: Coordination Group member agencies are invited to provide a point of contact to 

Juliana Blackwell, NGS, to be part of the new datum initiative outreach efforts.

Other Agency Announcements, Ivan Deloatch, FGDC OS

The USGS with the 3DEP program is working with federal agencies to understand lidar 

requirements, and to build a set of consolidated requirements that will be used in the next round 

of the broad agencies announcement activities for the summer. If there are agencies that have 

lidar requirements and did not send the requirement in that process, there is still time to submit 

them. Agencies can contact Dick Vraga (rsvraga@usgs.gov) to obtain information on this 

process.

Mr. Ivan DeLoatch, FGDC OS, announced that the next Coordination Group meeting in July will 

be a webinar only meeting. Additionally, he noted that the Coordination Group meeting 

scheduled for August 11 has been cancelled. An announcement will be made regarding possible 

reschedule of the September 8 CG meeting.

Mr. DeLoatch announced the FGDC is currently modifying its website including the redesign of

the FGDC logo. The new FGDC logo was displayed and members were asked to provide 

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Mr. DeLoatch presented the revised version of the Coordination Group charter from May 22.

The FGDC secretariat will send the revised charter to the CG for an electronic vote.

Jacquie Nolan, LOC, announced that the Library of Congress will hold a Symposium on 

Geographic Names in celebration of the 125th anniversary of the U.S. Board on Geographic 

Names (BGN). The event announcement will be sent to Lucia Foulkes to be posted as a news 

item on the FGDC website.

Decision: The next Coordination Group meeting on July 14 will be a webinar only meeting.

Decision: The August 14 Coordination Group meeting has been cancelled.

Action: The FGDC Secretariat will send the revised CG charter to the Coordination Group for an 

electronic vote.

Action: Jacquie Nolan, LOC, will send the information on the symposium on Geographic Names 

125th Anniversary to Lucia Foulkes to be posted on FGDC’s website. 

Action Item Review, and next meeting agenda items, Lucia Foulkes, FGDC OS

Actions items will be revised at the July CG meeting.

Adjourn