Who was “in charge” of the National Assessment?
The parent body within the US Government for the National Assessment was the Committee on Environment and Natural Resources (CENR), which is a subsidiary body of the National Science and Technology Council, chaired by the President. The CENR has delegated responsibility for oversight of assessment activities to its Subcommittee on Global Change Research (SGCR), which is the parent committee for the USGCRP. The SGCR has broad responsibilities for research planning and coordination among the Federal agencies. With respect to the National Assessment, the SGCR was charged with overall coordination, implementation, and sponsorship of the national assessment process. Individual agencies, in cooperation with the SGCR/NAWG, had lead responsibility for organizing and sponsoring the sectoral analyses under the guidelines established by the NAST and SGCR/NAWG. Each sectoral team was composed of both public and private participants.
