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Appendix B: Minority Opinion
Pages 66-67

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... meets regularly to help coordinate data issues across many "global change" disciplines, which include air, water, ice, rocks, soils, and some biology. It seems to me that the IWGDMGC and the proposed NSIR Federation are mainly trying to do the same thing.
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... I believe that the NRC staff for this study has been very able and conscientious in helping to pull together this report. The report underwent significant change, but r was unable to fully support the committee's majority position regarding the proposed NSTR Federation.
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