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participating virtually. For members of 

NSF and the external community, 

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be available through the following page: 

https://www.nsf.gov/sbe/advisory.jsp. 

Type of Meeting: Open. 

Contact Persons: Garneski, John, 

National Science Foundation, 2415 

Eisenhower Avenue, Alexandria, VA 

22314; Telephone: (703) 292–4519. 

Purpose of Meeting: To provide 

advice, recommendations and counsel 

on major goals and policies pertaining 

to scientific programs and activities. 

Agenda: Welcome, Introductions, 

Approval of Previous Advisory 

Committee (AC) Meeting Summary, and 

Preview of Agenda 

Directorate for Social, Behavioral, and 

Economic Sciences (SBE) Update 

Discussion on SBE and Artificial 

Intelligence-related research 

Technology, Innovation, and 

Partnerships and SBE 

SBE activities aligned with NSF’s 

‘‘Creating Opportunities Everywhere’’ 

portfolio 

Dated: November 9, 2023. 

Crystal Robinson, 

Committee Management Officer. 

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Name and Committee Code: Alan T. 

Waterman Award Committee (#1172). 

Date and Time: January 29, 2024— 

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Place: NSF, 2415 Eisenhower Avenue, 

Alexandria, VA 22314 (Virtual). 

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Contact Persons: Gayle Pugh Lev, 

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Request for Information (RFI) on NSF 

Public Access Plan 2.0: Ensuring 

Open, Immediate, and Equitable 

Access to National Science 

Foundation Funded Research 

AGENCY: National Science Foundation 

(NSF). 

ACTION: Request for information. 

SUMMARY: The National Science 

Foundation (NSF) is seeking public 

input from the science and engineering 

research and education community on 

implementing NSF Public Access Plan 

2.0: Ensuring Open, Immediate, and 

Equitable Access to National Science 

Foundation Funded Research. This 

plan, described in SUPPLEMENTARY

INFORMATION, represents an update to 

NSF current public access requirements 

in response to recent White House 

Office of Science and Technology Policy 

guidance. A primary consideration 

during the development of NSF’s plan 

has been potential equity impacts of 

public access requirements. NSF’s goal 

is to improve equity throughout the 

research life cycle, making data and 

opportunities available to all 

researchers, including those from 

marginalized communities and 

historically under-resourced institutions 

of higher education in the U.S. NSF is 

committed to considering the needs of 

the diverse US research community, 

including identifying possible 

unintended consequences that the plan 

and its implementation could produce. 

DATES: Interested persons or 

organizations are invited to submit 

comments on or before 11:59 p.m. (EST) 

on January 2, 2024. 

ADDRESSES: The preferred method of 

response is to complete as much of the 

online RFI as you wish. However, if you 

cannot or do not wish to access this 

tool, comments submitted in response to 

this notice may also be submitted by the 

following methods: 

Email: PublicAccess2-RFI@nsf.gov. 

Email submissions should be machinereadable and not be copy-protected. 

Submissions should include ‘‘RFI 

Response: NSF Public Access 2.0’’ in 

the subject line of the message. 

Mail: Attn. Martin Halbert, 2415 

Eisenhower Ave., Alexandria, VA 

22314. 

Responses may address one or as 

many topics as desired from the 

enumerated list provided in this RFI, 

noting the corresponding number of the 

topic(s) to which the response pertains. 

Submissions must not exceed 3 pages 

(exclusive of cover page) in 11-point or 

larger font, with a page number 

provided on each page. Responses 

should include the name of the 

person(s) or organization(s) filing the 

comment, as well as the respondent 

type (e.g., academic institution, 

advocacy group, professional society, 

community-based organization, 

industry, member of the public, 

government, other). Respondent’s role 

in the organization may also be 

provided (e.g., researcher, administrator, 

student, program manager, journalist) 

on a voluntary basis. 

No business proprietary information, 

copyrighted information, or personally 

identifiable information (aside from that 

requested above) should be submitted in 

response to this RFI. Comments 

submitted in response to this RFI will be 

used internally at NSF and may be 

shared with other Federal agencies. Any 

online or public release of data will only 

be in aggregate form to protect the 

identity of submitters. Please note that 

all questions are optional. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

additional information, please direct 

questions to Martin Halbert at 

PublicAccess2-RFI@nsf.gov, (703) 292– 

5111. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The U.S. 

National Science Foundation Public 

Access Plan 2.0: Ensuring Open, 

Immediate, and Equitable Access to 

National Science Foundation Funded 

Research has been prepared in response 

to the memorandum dated August 25, 

2022, from the White House Office of 

Science and Technology Policy, or 

OSTP, titled Ensuring Free, Immediate, 

and Equitable Access to Federally 

Funded Research, and signed by 

Alondra Nelson. It updates NSF’s 

original public access plan, Today’s 

Data, Tomorrow’s Discoveries: 

Increasing Access to the Results of 

Research Funded by the National 

Science Foundation, dated March 18, 

2015. 

Broadly, Public Access Plan 2.0: 

Ensuring Open, Immediate, and 

Equitable Access to National Science 

Foundation Funded Research describes 

how: 

• all peer-reviewed scholarly 

publications resulting from NSF-funded 

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and publicly accessible by default in the 

NSF Public Access Repository, or NSF– 

PAR, without embargo; 

• such publications will be accessible 

for assistive technologies; 

• scientific data associated with peerreviewed publications resulting from 

NSF awards will be made available in 

disciplinary repositories; 

• exceptions to the data-sharing 

requirements will be made based on 

legal, privacy, ethical, intellectual 

property and national security 

considerations; and 

• persistent identifiers, or PIDs, and 

other critical information associated 

with peer-reviewed publications and 

data resulting from NSF-funded 

research will be collected and made 

publicly available in NSF–PAR. 

NSF is committed to ensuring that its 

approach to public access enhances 

equity in the science and engineering 

ecosystem and wants to understand any 

potential barriers that may be faced by 

researchers in complying with new 

public access requirements. Responses 

may suggest areas of particular interest 

to the research community that inspire 

future NSF funding opportunities and 

development plans for NSF–PAR. 

NSF seeks responses from all 

interested individuals and communities 

including—but not limited to— 

individual researchers, research 

institutions, libraries, scholarly 

societies, scholarly publishers, early 

career researchers, and students/ 

educators. NSF is particularly interested 

in hearing from researchers new to 

public access at NSF, new to open 

science practices more generally, or 

working in fields or institutions with 

unique challenges in complying with 

public access requirements, to ensure 

that NSF is well-positioned to fully 

consider potential equity impacts as the 

plan is implemented. 

Comments are welcome on all 

elements of NSF Public Access Plan 2.0 

but would be particularly welcome for 

the issues/questions identified below. 

Please note that all questions are 

optional. 

1. Overall, do you view public access 

requirements as having more positive or 

more negative effects on equity and 

inclusion in science (indicate one)? 

• mostly positive 

• somewhat positive 

• neither positive nor negative 

• somewhat negative 

• mostly negative 

2. Do you currently have access to 

data repositories that will enable you to 

comply with public access 

requirements? (indicate one)? 

• Yes, I have access 

• Yes, I have access, but it is limited 

• No, I don’t have access 

• I don’t know 

3. What opportunities or benefits do 

you anticipate you and/or your 

institution would realize from the 

requirement that NSF-funded peerreviewed publications be made 

available in the NSF Public Access 

Repository (NSF–PAR)? (Please limit 

response to 500 characters.) 

4. What challenges or barriers do you 

anticipate personally facing while 

complying with the requirement that 

NSF-funded peer reviewed publications 

be made available in NSF–PAR? (Please 

limit response to 500 characters) What 

opportunities or benefits do you 

anticipate you and/or your institution 

would realize from the requirement that 

the data underlying your NSF-funded 

peer-reviewed publications be made 

publicly available? (Please limit 

response to 500 characters.) 

5. What challenges or barriers do you 

anticipate personally facing while 

complying with the requirement that the 

data underlying your NSF-funded peerreviewed publications be made publicly 

available? (Please limit response to 500 

characters.) 

6. How can NSF best engage affected 

communities regarding public access 

issues, in particular marginalized or 

underrepresented groups? (Please limit 

response to 500 characters.) 

7. If you have any additional 

comments about NSF’s Public Access 

Plan, please share them here. (Please 

limit response to 2,000 characters.) 

8. What is your primary field of 

research, employment, or study 

(indicate one)? 

• Astronomy and astrophysics 

• Biological, agricultural, 

environmental life sciences 

• Computer and information sciences 

• Engineering 

• Humanities or liberal arts 

• Learning sciences/education research 

• Library or communication sciences 

• Mathematics and statistics 

• Medical and health sciences 

• Physical and geosciences (including 

atmospheric and ocean sciences) 

• Social sciences 

• Publisher (for profit) 

• Publisher (society or non-profit) 

• Other (please specify) 

9. What type of institution(s) best 

describes where you work? (Note: if you 

hold a dual appointment, please 

indicate all that apply.) 

• U.S. 4-year university; Doctoralgranting, high or very high research 

activity 

• U.S. 4-year university; Doctoralgranting, other 

• U.S. 4-year university or college; 

Masters-granting (i.e., no Doctoral 

programs offered) 

• U.S. 4-year college or university; 

Baccalaureate-granting (i.e., no 

Doctoral or Masters programs offered) 

• U.S. community or 2-year college 

• U.S. university-affiliated research 

institute 

• Government agency (Federal, State or 

local) 

• Non-governmental, non-university 

affiliated research organization 

• Non-profit organization (including 

tax-exempt, charitable organization 

and private foundation) 

• For-profit company or organization 

• Other (please specify) 

10. If you work at a university, please 

indicate all categories that represent 

your university (indicate all that apply): 

• Asian American and Native American 

Pacific Islander-Serving Institution 

(AANAPI) 

• Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI) 

• Historically Black College or 

University (HBCU) 

• Minority serving Institution (MSI) 

• Tribal College or University (TCU) 

• Women’s College or University 

• Other 

• None of the above 

11. If you are engaged in academic 

research, in what stage of your career 

are you (indicate one)? 

• undergraduate student 

• graduate student 

• early career researcher (<10 years 

post-Ph.D.) 

• mid-career researcher (10–25 years 

post-Ph.D.) 

• late-career researcher (<25 years postPh.D.) 

• not applicable 

12. What communities do you work 

with in your research (i.e., about whom 

or from whom data is collected)? Please 

indicate all that apply. 

• American Indian or Alaska Native 

communities 

• Asian communities 

• Black or African American 

communities 

• Latine/x/o/a communities 

• LGBTIQA+ communities 

• Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific 

Islander communities 

• Persons with disabilities 

• non-US-based communities 

• communities with limited 

socioeconomic status 

• not applicable 

• Other (please specify) 

13. Are you Hispanic or Latino? 

• No, I am not Hispanic or Latino 

• Yes, I am Mexican or Chicano 

• Yes, I am Puerto Rican 


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• Yes, I am Cuban 

• Yes, I am other Hispanic or Latino 

(please specify): 

14. What is your racial background 

(indicate all that apply)? 

• American Indian or Alaska Native— 

specify Tribal affiliations(s) 

• Asian 

• Black or African American 

• Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific 

Islander 

• White 

15. Do you identify as a disabled 

person with respect to any of the 

following specific functions (indicate all 

that apply)? 

• SEEING words or letters in ordinary 

newsprint (with glasses/contact 

lenses, if you usually wear them) 

• HEARING in conversation with 

another person (with hearing aid or 

other assistive device, if you usually 

wear one) 

• WALKING without human or 

mechanical assistance or using stairs 

• LIFTING or carrying something as 

heavy as 10 pounds, such as a bag of 

groceries 

• CONCENTRATING, REMEMBERING, 

or MAKING DECISIONS because of a 

physical, mental or emotional 

condition 

• Other disability (please specify) 

16. Is there anything else you would 

like to tell us about your identity that 

impacts the way you are perceived or 

your access to the scholarly ecosystem 

(e.g., age, gender identity, sexual 

orientation etc.) (Please limit response 

to 2,000 characters.). 

Authority: 42 U.S.C. 1861, et al. 

Dated: November 8, 2023. 

Suzanne H. Plimpton, 

Reports Clearance Officer, National Science 

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ACTION: License renewal application; 

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SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

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The NRC received, by letter dated 

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radioactivity assessment, the provision 

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The renewed license would allow 

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10 years. NIST’s current license would 

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existing license, the license will not 

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license renewal application. As such, 

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An NRC acceptance review of the 

revised application, dated October 6, 

2023 (ADAMS Accession No. 

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acceptable for a technical review. 

During the technical review, the NRC 

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