A bill to amend the National Science and Technology Policy, Organization, and Priorities Act of 1976 in order to provide for improved coordination of national scientific research efforts and to provide for a national plan to improve scientific understanding of the earth system and the effect of changes in that system on climate and human well-being.
National Science and Technology Policy Amendments of 1988 - Amends the National Science and Technology Policy, Organization, and Priorities Act of 1976 to provide for assignment to the Federal Coordinating Council for Science, Engineering, and Technology of responsibilities to make long-range plans for cooperative scientific and technical research among Federal agencies.
Directs the President, through the Council, to develop a National Global Change Research Plan for a ten-year national research effort concerning both human-induced and natural processes of global change. Requires the Plan to include objectives, funding requirements, and proposed roles for each appropriate Federal agency. Requires that the Plan be submitted to the Congress within one year of this Act's enactment and revised at least triennially.
Lists research topics and activities, including global measurements, documentation of global changes, predictions, and data base development. Suggests primary assignments with respect to specific agencies. Directs each participating Federal agency to include global change research funding requirements in its annual budget request.
Directs the Chairman of the Council to submit to the President and to the Congress an annual report on global change research efforts.
Introduced in Senate
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce.
Committee on Commerce. Hearings held.
Committee on Commerce. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.
Committee on Commerce. Reported to Senate by Senator Hollings with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. With written report No. 100-587.
Committee on Commerce. Reported to Senate by Senator Hollings with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. With written report No. 100-587.
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 1061.
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