Provide General Comments

Every project record has a public FEEDBACK button on the starting page.  Viewers may use this FEEDBACK button at any time over the project’s duration to provide comments to the National Academies.

Provide Formal Comments 

Formal comments on the provisional appointments to a committee of the National Academies are solicited during the 20-calendar day period following the posting of the membership. Viewers must be at the end of the committee membership document in the section entitled “Comments on Provisional Committee Appointments” as shown below and click on the "FEEDBACK" link in that section to invoke this special electronic messaging mechanism.  Note that there is a timer that indicates the number of days for which the formal public comment period remains open.

Comments on Provisional Committee Appointments

Viewers may communicate with the National Academies at any time over the project's duration.  In addition, formal comments on the provisional appointments to a committee of the National Academies are solicited during the 20-calendar day period following the posting of the membership and, as described below, these comments will be considered before committee membership is finalized. We welcome your comments. 

Please note that the appointments made to this committee are provisional, and changes may be made.  No appointment shall be considered final until we have evaluated relevant information bearing on the committee's composition and balance.  This information will include the confidential written disclosures to the National Academies by each member-designate concerning potential sources of bias and conflict of interest pertaining to his or her service on the committee; information from discussion of the committee's composition and balance that is conducted in closed session at its first meeting and again whenever its membership changes; and any public comments that we have received on the membership during the 20-calendar day formal public comment period.  If additional members are appointed to this committee, an additional 20-calendar day formal public comment period will be allowed.  It is through this process that we determine whether the committee contains the requisite expertise to address its task and whether the points of views of individual members are adequately balanced such that the committee as a whole can address its charge objectively.

Request Project Information

Written materials submitted to a study committee by external sources are listed in the project's public access file and can be made available to the public upon request.  Contact the Public Access Records Office (PARO) for a copy of the list and to obtain copies of the materials.  Copies of materials are free to the press and government employees.  Please send an email or call PARO to make a request or an inquiry. 

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