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SEC. 4613. INTERAGENCY COOPERATION AND COORDINA-
TION. 
(a) ESTABLISHMENT.—The President shall establish 
or designate an interagency committee to ensure coopera-
tion and coordination of all Federal research activities per-
taining to processes of global change for the purpose of 
increasing the overall effectiveness and productivity of 
Federal global change research efforts. The interagency 
committee shall include representatives of both agencies 
conducting global change research and agencies with au-
thority over resources likely to be affected by global 
change. 
(b) FUNCTIONS
OF
THE
INTERAGENCY
COM-
MITTEE.—The interagency committee shall— 
(1) serve as the forum for developing the Plan 
and for overseeing its implementation; 
(2) serve as the forum for developing the vul-
nerability assessment under section 4617; 
(3) ensure cooperation among Federal agencies 
with respect to global change research activities; 
(4) work with academic, State, industry, and 
other groups conducting global change research, to 
provide for periodic public and peer review of the 
Program; 
(5) cooperate with the Secretary of State in— 
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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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