[Federal Register Volume 77, Number 90 (Wednesday, May 9, 2012)]
[Notices]
[Pages 27208-27209]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2012-11142]
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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
Office of the Secretary
Renewal of Threat Reduction Advisory Committee
AGENCY: DoD.
ACTION: Renewal of Federal Advisory Committee.
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SUMMARY: Under the provisions of the Federal Advisory Committee Act of
1972 (5 U.S.C. Appendix), the Government in the Sunshine Act of 1976 (5
U.S.C. 552b), and 41 CFR 102-3.50(d), the Department of Defense gives
notice that it is renewing the charter for the Threat Reduction
Advisory Committee (hereafter referred to as ``the Committee'').
The Committee is a discretionary federal advisory committee that
shall provide the Secretary of Defense, through the Under Secretary of
Defense (Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics) and the Assistant
Secretary of Defense (Nuclear, Chemical and Biological Defense
Programs), independent advice and recommendations on:
a. Reducing the threat to the United States, its military forces,
and its allies and partners posed by nuclear, biological, chemical,
conventional and special weapons;
b. Combating weapons of mass destruction to include non-
proliferation, counterproliferation, and consequence management;
c. Nuclear deterrence transformation, nuclear material lockdown and
accountability;
d. Nuclear weapons effects;
e. The nexus of counterproliferation and counter WMD terrorism; and
f. Other Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics; Nuclear, Chemical
and Biological Defense; and Defense Threat Reduction Agency mission-
related matters.
The Committee shall be composed of not more than 30 committee
members who are eminent authorities in the fields of national defense,
geopolitical and national security affairs, weapons of mass
destruction, nuclear physics, chemistry, and biology.
The Committee members are appointed by the Secretary of Defense,
and their appointments will be renewed on an annual basis. The
Committee members who are not full-time or permanent part-time federal
officers or
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employees, shall be appointed as experts and consultants under the
authority of 5 U.S.C. 3109 and shall serve as special government
employees.
Committee members shall, with the exception of travel and per diem
for official travel, serve without compensation, unless authorized by
the Secretary of Defense.
The Under Secretary of Defense (Acquisition, Technology, and
Logistics) and the Assistant Secretary of Defense (Nuclear, Chemical
and Biological Defense Programs) shall select the Committee's
Chairperson and Vice Chairperson from the Committee membership at
large.
The Secretary of Defense may approve the appointment of Committee
members for one to four year terms of service; however, no member,
unless authorized by the Secretary of Defense, may serve more than two
consecutive terms of service. This same term of service limitation also
applies to any DoD authorized subcommittees.
Each Committee member is appointed to provide advice on behalf of
the government on the basis of his or her best judgment without
representing any particular point of view and in a manner that is free
from conflict of interest.
With DoD approval, the Committee shall be authorized to establish
subcommittees and panels, as required and consistent with its mission.
Establishment of subcommittees will be based upon a written
determination, to include terms of reference, by the Secretary of
Defense, the Deputy Secretary of Defense or the advisory committee's
sponsor.
Such subcommittees or panels shall not work independently of the
chartered Committee, and shall report their findings and advice solely
to the Committee for full deliberation and discussion. Subcommittees or
working groups have no authority to make decisions and recommendation
verbally or in writing on behalf of the chartered Committee, nor can
they report directly or release documents to the Agency or any Federal
officers or employees not Committee Members.
All subcommittee members shall be appointed in the same manner as
the Committee members; that is, the Secretary of Defense shall appoint
subcommittee members even if the member in question is already a
Committee member. Subcommittee members, with the approval of the
Secretary of Defense, may serve a term of service on the subcommittee
of one to four years; however, no member shall serve more than two
consecutive terms of service on the subcommittee.
Subcommittee members, if not full-time or part-time government
employees, shall be appointed to serve as experts and consultants under
the authority of 5 U.S.C. 3109, and shall serve as special government
employees, whose appointments must be renewed by the Secretary of
Defense on an annual basis. With the exception of travel and per diem
for official Committee related travel, subcommittee members shall serve
without compensation. All subcommittees operate under the provisions of
FACA, the Government in the Sunshine Act, governing Federal statutes
and regulations, and governing DoD policies/procedures.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jim Freeman, Advisory Committee
Management Officer for the Department of Defense, 703-692-5952.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Committee shall meet at the call of the
Committee's Designated Federal Officer, in consultation with the
Chairperson. The estimated number of Committee meetings is four per
year.
In addition, the Designated Federal Officer is required to be in
attendance at all committee and subcommittee meetings; however, in the
absence of the Designated Federal Officer, the Alternate Designated
Federal Officer shall attend the meeting.
The Designated Federal Officer, or the Alternate Designated Federal
Officer, shall call all of the Committee's meetings; prepare and
approve all meeting agendas; adjourn any meeting when the Designated
Federal Officer, or the Alternate Designated Federal Officer,
determines adjournment to be in the public interest or required by
governing regulations or DoD policies/procedures; and chair meetings
when directed to do so by the official to whom the Committee reports.
Pursuant to 41 CFR 102-3.105(j) and 102-3.140, the public or
interested organizations may submit written statements to Threat
Reduction Advisory Committee membership about the Committee's mission
and functions. Written statements may be submitted at any time or in
response to the stated agenda of planned meeting of Threat Reduction
Advisory Committee. All written statements shall be submitted to the
Designated Federal Officer for the Threat Reduction Advisory Committee,
and this individual will ensure that the written statements are
provided to the membership for their consideration. Contact information
for the Threat Reduction Advisory Committee's Designated Federal
Officer can be obtained from the GSA's FACA Database--https://www.fido.gov/facadatabase/public.asp.
The Designated Federal Officer, pursuant to 41 CFR 102-3.150, will
announce planned meetings of the Threat Reduction Advisory Committee.
The Designated Federal Officer, at that time, may provide additional
guidance on the submission of written statements that are in response
to the stated agenda for the planned meeting in question.
Dated: May 4, 2012.
Aaron Siegel,
Alternate OSD Federal Register Liaison Officer, Department of Defense.
[FR Doc. 2012-11142 Filed 5-8-12; 8:45 am]
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