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Policy (OSTP); 
Office and Management and Budget 
(OMB); and 
Council on Environmental Quality 
(CEQ). 
Three significant 
characteristics of the CES are 
important to note: 
1. With the participation of the 
OMB, CES reports or other 
documents, such as the Global 
Change Research Plan (GCRP) 
discussed below, have across 
the board Administration 
support once issued to 
Congress or elsewhere for 
funding or for other 
purposes. 
2. Because of the institutional 
separation of U.S. government 
and industry, the member 
agencies do not directly 
represent the economic 
interests of U.S. industry. 
3. Because the CES is a part 
of the FCCSET, and thus part 
of the embargoed White House 
budget process, there can be 
no direct industry membership 
participation in the 
activities of the CES. 
The full interagency nature of 
the CES is an encouraging and 
powerful mechanism to realize 
effective means for coordinated 
government global change R&D 
planning and presentation for 
Congressional funding. While 
Congressional budget committees for 
the various agencies lack similar 
coordination, the interagency CES 
unitary budgetary approach to 
Congress for politically popular 
global change environmental studies 
should enhance more rapid 
Congressional support because of 
the lack of the usual interagency 
budget bickering common to so many 
other Administration programs 
(e.g., the Landsat Program). 
While the CES is a U.S. 
government organization, its 
programs, including its Global 
Change Research Plan (see below), 
will need to include the interests, 
resources and support of U.S. 
industry, a factor in global change 
environmental impact, if the CES 
programs are to realize their 
maximum potential. 
Global Change Research Plan (GCRP) 
Since the creation of the CES in 
1987, its principal efforts have 
led to the U.S. Global Change 
Research Program (GCRP). This 
program was first published in 
early 1989 as a short report by the 
CES to accompany the U.S. 
President's Fiscal Year 1990 Budget 
entitled: Our Changing Planet: A 
U.S. Strategy for Global Change 
Research (CES, 1989a). This short 
report was followed in July 1989 by 
the first full GCRP entitled: Our 
Changing Planet: the FY 1990 
Research Plan; subtitled The U.S. 
Global Change Research Plan, A 
Report by the Committee on Earth 
Sciences (CES, 1989b). This GCRP 
was followed by a second short 
report in early 1990 to accompany 
the 1991 Presidential budget, 
entitled Our Changing Planet: The 
FY 1991 U.S. Global Change Research 
Program. (CES, 1990) The CES will 
publish a second full and updated 
global change research plan for the 
FY 1991 during the Fall of 1990. 
The U.S. Global Change Research 
Plan (GCRP) is an extensive 
interagency research budget plan to 
conduct global change research and 
is briefly summarized below (from 
CES, 1989b). It sets the GCRP 
goals and scientific objectives and 
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