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(A) providing representation at inter-
national meetings and conferences on global 
change research in which the United States 
participates; and 
(B) coordinating the Federal activities of 
the United States with programs of other na-
tions and with international global change re-
search activities; 
(6) work with appropriate Federal, State, re-
gional, and local authorities to ensure that the Pro-
gram is designed to produce information needed to 
develop policies to reduce the vulnerability of the 
United States and other regions to global change; 
(7) facilitate ongoing dialog and information ex-
change with regional, State, and local governments 
and other user communities; and 
(8) identify additional decisionmaking groups 
that may use information generated through the 
Program. 
SEC. 4614. UNITED STATES GLOBAL CHANGE RESEARCH 
PROGRAM. 
(a) ESTABLISHMENT.—The President shall establish 
an interagency United States Global Change Research 
Program to improve understanding of global change, to 
respond to the information needs of communities and deci-
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sionmakers, and to provide periodic assessments of the 
vulnerability of the United States and other regions to 
global and regional climate change. The Program shall be 
implemented in accordance with the Plan. 
(b) LEAD AGENCY.—The lead agency for the United 
States Global Change Research Program shall be the Of-
fice of Science and Technology Policy. 
(c) INTERAGENCY PROGRAM ACTIVITIES.—The Di-
rector of the Office of Science and Technology Policy, in 
consultation with the interagency committee, shall identify 
activities included in the Plan that involve participation 
by 2 or more agencies in the Program, and that do not 
fall within the current fiscal year budget allocations of 
those participating agencies, to fulfill the requirements of 
this subtitle. The Director of the Office of Science and 
Technology Policy shall allocate funds to the agencies to 
conduct the identified interagency activities. Such activi-
ties may include— 
(1) development of scenarios for climate, land- 
cover change, population growth, and socioeconomic 
development; 
(2) calibration and testing of alternative re-
gional and global climate models; 
(3) identification of economic sectors and re-
gional climatic zones; and 
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(4) convening regional workshops to facilitate 
information exchange and involvement of regional, 
State, and local decisionmakers, non-Federal ex-
perts, and other stakeholder groups in the activities 
of the Program. 
(d) WORKSHOPS.—The Director shall ensure that at 
least one workshop is held per year in each region identi-
fied by the Plan under section 4615(b)(11) to facilitate 
information exchange and outreach to regional, State, and 
local stakeholders as required by this subtitle. 
(e) AUTHORIZATION
OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There 
are authorized to be appropriated to the Office of Science 
and Technology Policy for carrying out this section 
$10,000,000 for each of the fiscal years 2008 through 
2013. 
SEC. 4615. NATIONAL GLOBAL CHANGE RESEARCH AND AS-
SESSMENT PLAN. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—The President shall develop a Na-
tional Global Change Research and Assessment Plan for 
implementation of the Program. The Plan shall contain 
recommendations for global change research and assess-
ment. The President shall submit an outline for the devel-
opment of the Plan to the Congress within 1 year after 
the date of enactment of this Act, and shall submit a com-
pleted Plan to the Congress within 3 years after the date 
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gram for development of State, local, and regional 
policies to reduce vulnerability to global change; and 
(2) recommend priorities for future global and 
regional climate change research and assessment. 
(g) PUBLIC
PARTICIPATION.—In developing the 
Plan, the President shall consult with representatives of 
academic, State, industry, and environmental groups. Not 
later than 90 days before the President submits the Plan, 
or any revision thereof, to the Congress, a summary of 
the proposed Plan shall be published in the Federal Reg-
ister for a public comment period of not less than 60 days. 
SEC. 4616. BUDGET COORDINATION. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—The President shall provide gen-
eral guidance to each Federal agency participating in the 
Program with respect to the preparation of requests for 
appropriations for activities related to the Program. 
(b) CONSIDERATION IN PRESIDENT’S BUDGET.—The 
President shall submit, at the time of his annual budget 
request to Congress, a description of those items in each 
agency’s annual budget which are elements of the Pro-
gram. 
SEC. 4617. VULNERABILITY ASSESSMENT. 
(a) REQUIREMENT.—Within 1 year after the date of 
enactment of this Act, and at least once every 5 years 
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thereafter, the President shall submit to the Congress an 
assessment which— 
(1) integrates, evaluates, and interprets the 
findings of the Program and discusses the scientific 
uncertainties associated with such findings; 
(2) analyzes current trends in global change, 
both human-induced and natural, and projects major 
trends for the subsequent 25 to 100 years; 
(3) based on indicators and baselines developed 
under section 4615(c)(3), as well as other measure-
ments, analyzes changes to the natural environment, 
land and water resources, and biological diversity 
in— 
(A) major geographic regions of the United 
States; and 
(B) other continents; 
(4) analyzes the effects of global change, includ-
ing the changes described in paragraph (3), on food 
and fiber production, energy production and use, 
transportation, human health and welfare, water 
availability and coastal infrastructure, and human 
social and economic systems, including providing in-
formation about the differential impacts on specific 
geographic regions within the United States, on peo-
ple of different income levels within those regions, 
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and for rural and urban areas within those regions; 
and 
(5) summarizes the vulnerability of different ge-
ographic regions of the world to global change and 
analyzes the implications of global change for the 
United States, including international assistance, 
population displacement, food and resource avail-
ability, and national security. 
(b) USE OF RELATED REPORTS.—To the extent ap-
propriate, the assessment produced pursuant to this sec-
tion may coordinate with, consider, incorporate, or other-
wise make use of related reports, assessments, or informa-
tion produced by the United States Global Change Re-
search Program, regional, State, and local entities, and 
international organizations, including the World Meteoro-
logical Organization and the Intergovernmental Panel on 
Climate Change. 
SEC. 4618. POLICY ASSESSMENT. 
Not later than 1 year after the date of enactment 
of this Act, and at least once every 4 years thereafter, 
the President shall enter into a joint agreement with the 
National Academy of Public Administration and the Na-
tional Academy of Sciences under which the Academies 
shall— 
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