Federal Register / Vol. 72, No. 248 / Friday, December 28, 2007 / Notices 73771 

Dated: December 21, 2007. 

Tracey L. Thompson, 

Acting Director, Office of Sustainable 

Fisheries, National Marine Fisheries Service. 

[FR Doc. E7–25177 Filed 12–27–07; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3510–22–S 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

National Oceanic and Atmospheric 

Administration 

Publication of North American Datum 

of 1983 State Plane Coordinates in feet 

in Nebraska 

AGENCY: National Geodetic Survey 

(NGS), National Ocean Service (NOS), 

National Oceanic and Atmospheric 

Administration. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The National Geodetic Survey 

(NGS) will publish North American 

Datum of 1983 (NAD 83) State Plane 

Coordinate (SPC) grid values in both 

meters and U.S. Survey Feet (1 ft = 

1200/3937 m) in Nebraska, for all well 

defined geodetic survey control 

monuments maintained by NGS in the 

National Spatial Reference System 

(NSRS) and computed from various 

geodetic positioning utilities. The 

adoption of this standard is 

implemented in accordance with NGS 

policy and a request from the Nebraska 

State Surveyor, Nebraska Department of 

Roads, the Professional Surveyors 

Association of Nebraska. 

DATES: Individuals or organizations 

wishing to submit comments on the 

Publication of North American Datum of 

1983 State Plane Coordinates in feet in 

Nebraska, should do by January 28, 

2008. 

ADDRESSES: Written comments should 

be sent to the attention of David Doyle, 

Chief Geodetic Surveyor, Office of the 

National Geodetic Survey, National 

Ocean Service (N/NGS2), 1315 EastWest Highway, Silver Spring, Maryland, 

20910, fax 301–713–4324, or via e-mail 

Dave.Doyle@noaa.gov. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Requests for additional information 

should be directed to David Doyle, Chief 

Geodetic Surveyor, National Geodetic 

Survey (N/NGS2), 1315 East-West 

Highway, Silver Spring, MD, 20910; 

Phone: (301) 713–3178. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Abstract 

In 1991, NGS adopted a policy that 

defines the conditions under which 

NAD 83 State Plane Coordinates (SPCs) 

would be published in feet in addition 

to meters. As outlined in that policy, 

each state or territory must adopt NAD 

83 legislation (typically referenced as 

Codes, Laws or Statutes), which 

specifically defines a conversion to 

either U.S. Survey or International Feet 

as defined by the U.S. Bureau of 

Standards in Federal Register Notice 

59–5442. To date, 48 states have 

adopted the NAD 83 legislation 

however, for various reasons, only 33 

included a specific definition of the 

relationship between meters and feet. 

This lack of uniformity has led to 

confusion and misuse of SPCs as 

provided in various NGS products, 

services and tools, and created errors in 

mapping, charting and surveying 

programs in numerous states due to 

inconsistent coordinate conversions. 

Dated: December 20, 2007. 

David B. Zilkoski, 

Director, Office of National Geodetic Survey, 

National Ocean Service, National Oceanic 

and Atmospheric Administration 

[FR Doc. 07–6233 Filed 12–27–07; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3510–JE–M 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

National Oceanic and Atmospheric 

Administration 

RIN 0648–XE67 

U.S. Climate Change Science Program 

Revised Research Plan Summary 

AGENCY: National Oceanic and 

Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 

Department of Commerce. 

ACTION: Notice of Publication of U.S. 

Climate Change Science Program (CCSP) 

Revised Research Plan Summary and 

request for public comments. 

SUMMARY: Pursuant to Section 104(f) the 

Global Change Research Act of 1990 

(GCRA), the U.S. Climate Change 

Science Program Revised Research Plan 

Summary is being published in the 

Federal Register for a 60-day public 

comment period. The public comments 

received on the Revised Research Plan 

Summary will be considered during the 

preparation of the final Revised 

Research Plan as well as the Scientific 

Assessment document required by 

Section 106 of the GCRA. The final 

version of the full Revised Research 

Plan will be published on the CCSP web 

site. Public comments received on the 

Revised Research Plan Summary will be 

made available upon request. 

DATES: Comments must be received by 

February 26, 2008. 

ADDRESSES: A formatted version of The 

U.S. Climate Change Science Program 

Revised Research Plan Summary is 

available on the CCSP Web site at: 

http://www.climatescience.gov/Library/ 

stratplan2008/summary/default.htm 

Comments should be sent to Dr. Fabien 

Laurier, Climate Change Science 

Program Office at: 

research-plan-summary@usgcrp.gov 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dr. 

Patricia Jellison, Climate Change 

Science Program Office, 1717 

Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Suite 250, 

Washington, DC 20006, Telephone: 

(202) 223–6262 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Summary of Revised Research Plan for 

the US Climate Change Science 

Program (CCSP) 

I. Introduction 

About the Revised Research Plan 

This Revised Research Plan is an 

update to the 2003 Strategic Plan of the 

US Climate Change Science Program 

(CCSP) (http://www.climatescience.gov/ 

Library/stratplan2003/final/ 

default.htm), a document which was 

developed via a thorough, open and 

transparent multi-year process involving 

a wide range of scientists and managers. 

A significant part of this process was the 

review of both the draft and final plan 

by the National Academy of Sciences 

(http://www.nap.edu/ 

catalog.php?recordlid=11565 for the 

draft plan; http://www.nap.edu/ 

catalog.php?recordlid=10635 for the 

final plan). These reviews played an 

important role in influencing the 2003 

Strategic Plan’s development. 

The Strategic Plan has long-term 

value to CCSP, but like any strategic 

plan, it must be supplemented by 

shorter-term revisions that take into 

account both advances in the science 

and changes in societal needs, and 

CCSP has an ongoing long-range 

strategic planning process to ensure that 

these needs are met. The Revised 

Research Plan (hereinafter referred to as 

the Research Plan) draws on CCSP’s 

long-range planning process and 

provides this update, in compliance 

with the terms of the Global Change 

Research Act (GCRA) of 1990. 

In the Research Plan, the reader will 

find several things: (1) an updated 

statement of vision, goals and 

capabilities consistent with CCSP’s 

current Strategic Plan but reflecting both 

scientific progress and the evolution of 

the Program based on accomplishments 

and evolving societal and 

environmental needs; (2) a description 

of the relationship of the Research Plan 

to the current Scientific Assessment; (3) 

highlights of ways in which the program 

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