Congress 107 - HR 5688 - Global Change Research and Data Management Act of 2002

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Global Change Research and Data Management Act of 2002 - Directs the President to establish an interagency committee to ensure cooperation and coordination of Federal research activities pertaining to human-induced and natural processes of global change.

Directs the President to establish an interagency United States Global Change Research Program to improve understanding of global change and to provide periodic assessments of the vulnerability of the United States and other regions to global change.

Directs the President to develop a National Global Change Research Plan to implement the Program, including recommendations for global change research.

Requires the Plan to set research goals and priorities, including global measurements of physical processes contributing to changes in the Earth system as well as economic and demographic trends and how these processes and trends interact.

Directs the President to establish an interagency climate and other global change data management working group.

Requires the President to direct the Secretary of State to initiate discussions with other nations leading toward international protocols and other agreements to coordinate global climate change research activities.

Directs the President to establish an Office of Global Change Research Information.

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Oct 28, 2002

Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy.
Oct 28, 2002

Referred to the Subcommittee on Environment, Technology, and Standards.
Oct 28, 2002

Referred to the Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics.
Oct 28, 2002

Referred to the Subcommittee on Research.
Oct 17, 2002

Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1883-1884)
Oct 16, 2002

Referred to the Committee on Science, and in addition to the Committees on the Budget, and International Relations, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Oct 16, 2002

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