Federal Register / Vol. 70, No. 175 / Monday, September 12, 2005 / Notices 53779 

Dated: September 6, 2005. 

Emily Menashes, 

Acting Director, Office of Sustainable 

Fisheries, National Marine Fisheries Service. 

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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

National Oceanic and Atmospheric 

Administration 

External Advisory Panel for NOAA’s 

Oceans and Human Health Initiative 

AGENCY: National Ocean Service (NOS), 

National Oceanic and Atmospheric 

Administration (NOAA), Department of 

Commerce. 

ACTION: Notice of solicitation of 

members for an external advisory panel 

for the NOAA Oceans and Human 

Health Initiative. 

SUMMARY: The Oceans and Human 

Health Act of 2004 (Pub. L. 108–447) 

created a national, interagency research 

program to improve understanding of 

the role of the oceans in human health. 

Section 903(a) of this Act authorizes the 

Secretary of Commerce to establish an 

Oceans and Human Health Initiative 

(OHHI) to coordinate and implement 

research and activities of NOAA related 

to the role of the oceans, the coasts, and 

the Great Lakes in human health. The 

OHHI is further authorized to provide 

support for (1) Centralized program and 

research coordination, (2) an advisory 

panel, (3) one or more NOAA national 

centers of excellence, (4) research 

grants, and (5) distinguished scholars 

and traineeships. Section 903(b) of the 

OHH Act further authorizes the 

Secretary of Commerce to establish an 

oceans and human health advisory 

panel to assist in the development and 

implementation of the NOAA OHHI. 

This advisory panel is to provide for 

balanced representation of individuals 

with multi-disciplinary expertise in the 

marine and biomedical sciences and is 

not subject to the Federal Advisory 

Committee Act (5 U.S.C. App.). 

Nominations to the OHHI advisory 

panel are being solicited herein. The 

intent is to select from the nominees. 

However, NOAA retains the prerogative 

to name people to the advisory panel 

who were not nominated if it deems it 

necessary to achieve the desired 

balance. Once selected, NOAA will post 

the review panel, with abridged 

resumes, at http:// 

oceanservice.noaa.gov/aaoffice/OHHI/. 

DATES: Nominations should be sent to 

the address specified and must be 

received within 30 days following the 

date of publication of this 

announcement. 

ADDRESSES: Nominations should be 

submitted electronically to Dr. Paul 

Sandifer (Paul.Sandifer@noaa.gov) or 

mailed to Dr. Paul Sandifer, c/o Hollings 

Marine Laboratory, 331 Fort Johnson 

Road, Charleston, South Carolina 29412. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dr. 

Paul Sandifer (843) 762–8814. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Panel 

members shall not be employed by 

NOAA. Nominations should describe 

the nominees’s contact information and 

qualifications relative to the criteria 

given below, or include a resume. 

Anyone is eligible to nominate, and 

nominations from organizations and 

self-nominations are encouraged. The 

advisory panel is expected to have up to 

a maximum of 15 members, with a 

variety of backgrounds (recognizing that 

it will not be practical to have all 

backgrounds represented), with respect 

to: 

1. Particularly relevant areas of 

marine and biomedical sciences, such 

as: 

a. Conservation medicine, diseases of 

humans, diseases of marine organisms; 

b. Epidemiology and human health 

sciences; 

c. Harmful algal bloom (HAB) impacts 

on public health; 

d. Source tracking and environmental 

microbiology; 

e. Marine pharmaceuticals and other 

natural products; 

f. Marine organisms and habitats as 

models for biomedical research and/or 

indicators of environmental condition; 

g. Pollutants, contaminants, and 

ecological chemistry; 

h. Seafood safety; 

i. Remote sensing, observing systems; 

and predictive models; 

j. Ecosystem science and services; 

k. Climate change and variability; 

l. Genomics and proteomics; 

m. Biomaterials, bioengineering, and 

other techniques for producing marine 

products, including chemical, 

aquaculture, and recombinant DNA; 

n. Outreach and education; and 

o. Social sciences relevant to human 

health. 

2. Experience in academia, within 

mission-oriented government agencies, 

non-governmental organizations, and 

the private sector; 

3. Familiarity with NOAA’s mandates; 

and 

4. Being a science provider to key 

generic groups of stakeholders, science 

interpreter to groups of stakeholders, or 

stakeholder with a history of interaction 

with science providers. 

The advisory panel members should 

have the following qualifications: 

1. National and international 

recognition within their profession; 

2. Knowledge of the scientific, 

technical, and biomedical information 

needed to support NOAA’s Oceans and 

Human Health Initiative, coupled with 

broad familiarity with NOAA’s mission; 

3. Knowledge of, and experience with, 

the organization and management of 

complex, mission-oriented scientific 

and/or public health programs; and 

4. Ability to represent views of 

academia, government agencies, nongovernmental organizations, or the 

private business sector. 

The qualifications of individuals are 

expected to be outstanding with respect 

to one or more, but not necessarily all, 

of the criteria. Because of the limited 

size of the advisory panel, management 

organization expertise must include 

expertise directly related to ecosystem 

condition or human health or the very 

special features of science applied to 

government decision-making. 

The purpose of the OHH advisory 

panel is to advise NOAA with regard to: 

1. Development of overall vision, 

mission and goals for its OHHI; 

2. Preparation and periodic updating 

of a NOAA OHHI Research Plan; 

3. Communication, coordination and 

integration of OHHI activities with other 

programs and partners, including but 

not limited to the NSF/NIEHS Centers of 

Oceans and Human Health, the InterAgency Task Force on Harmful Algal 

Blooms and Hypoxia, human health 

academic and medical communities, 

and state environmental, health and 

natural resource agencies; 

4. OHHI performance and progress; 

5. Effectiveness of NOAA’s education 

and outreach efforts; and 

6. Such other matters as may be 

identified. 

Initial appointments to the advisory 

panel will be for three-year terms, and 

the panel is expected to meet twice 

yearly. 

Dated: August 30, 2005. 

John L. Hayes, 

Deputy Assistant Administrator for Ocean 

Services and Coastal Zone Management, 

National Oceanic and Atmospheric 

Administration. 

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