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of enactment of this Act. Revised Plans shall be submitted 
to the Congress at least once every 5 years thereafter. In 
the development of each Plan, the President shall conduct 
a formal assessment process under this section to deter-
mine the needs of appropriate Federal, State, regional, 
and local authorities and other interested parties regard-
ing the types of information needed by them in developing 
policies to reduce society’s vulnerability to global change 
and shall utilize these assessments, including the reviews 
by the National Academy of Sciences and the National 
Governors Association under subsections (e) and (f), in 
developing the Plan. 
(b) CONTENTS OF THE PLAN.—The Plan shall— 
(1) establish, for the 10-year period beginning 
in the year the Plan is submitted, the goals and pri-
orities for Federal global change research which 
most effectively advance scientific understanding of 
global change and provide information of use to 
Federal, State, regional, and local authorities in the 
development of policies relating to global change; 
(2) describe specific activities, including efforts 
to determine user information needs, research activi-
ties, data collection, database development, and data 
analysis requirements, development of regional sce-
narios, assessment of model predictability, assess-
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ment of climate change impacts, participation in 
international research efforts, and information man-
agement, required to achieve such goals and prior-
ities; 
(3) identify relevant programs and activities of 
the Federal agencies that contribute to the Program 
directly and indirectly; 
(4) set forth the role of each Federal agency in 
implementing the Plan; 
(5) consider and utilize, as appropriate, reports 
and studies conducted by Federal agencies, the Na-
tional Research Council, or other entities; 
(6) make recommendations for the coordination 
of the global change research and assessment activi-
ties of the United States with such activities of other 
nations and international organizations, including— 
(A) a description of the extent and nature 
of international cooperative activities; 
(B) bilateral and multilateral efforts to 
provide worldwide access to scientific data and 
information; and 
(C) improving participation by developing 
nations in international global change research 
and environmental data collection; 
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(7) detail budget requirements for Federal glob-
al change research and assessment activities to be 
conducted under the Plan; 
(8) catalog the type of information identified by 
appropriate Federal, State, regional, and local deci-
sionmakers needed to develop policies to reduce soci-
ety’s vulnerability to global change and indicate how 
the planned research will meet these decisionmakers’ 
information needs; 
(9) identify the observing systems currently em-
ployed in collecting data relevant to global and re-
gional climate change research and prioritize addi-
tional observation systems that may be needed to en-
sure adequate data collection and monitoring of 
global change; 
(10) describe specific activities designed to fa-
cilitate outreach and data and information exchange 
with regional, State, and local governments and 
other user communities; and 
(11) identify and describe regions of the United 
States that are likely to experience similar impacts 
of global change or are likely to share similar 
vulnerabilities to global change. 
(c) RESEARCH ELEMENTS.—The Plan shall include 
at a minimum the following research elements: 
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