[nws-changes] 20100822 extended comment period-decision support for Emergency Mgmt Community Fwd: ADMIN NOTICE NOUS41 KWBC

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Public Information Statement, Amended 
National Weather Service Headquarters Washington DC
1245 PM EDT Thu Aug 22 2013
TO: Subscribers: 
         -Family of Services
         -NOAA Weather Wire Service
         -Emergency Managers Weather Information Network
         -NOAAPORT
         Other NWS Partners, Users, and Employees
FROM: Chris Strager 
         Acting Director
         NWS Office of Climate, Water, and Weather Services
SUBJECT: Amended: Extending Comment Period through September 23, 
         2013, on Proposed Enhanced Impact-Based Decision Support
         Services for the Emergency Management Community
Amended to extend the comment period through September 23, 2013 

NWS is soliciting comments by September 23, 2013, on a Service
Description Document (SDD) describing proposed enhanced impact-
based decision support services (IDSS) for the emergency
management community supporting events/incidents impacting safety
of life and property.
The NWS Roadmap 2.0 is focused on building a Weather-Ready Nation 
(WRN), which means building community resilience in the face of
increasing vulnerability to extreme weather-dependent impacts. To
this end, NWS is enhancing decision support services, improving
technology to track and forecast storms, and expanding its
dissemination efforts to achieve far-reaching national
preparedness. For information on the NWS Roadmap see:
http://www.nws.noaa.gov/com/weatherreadynation/ To implement our WRN Roadmap, focused IDSS activities are 
currently taking place at several offices taking part in NWS WRN
Pilot Projects.  In addition, through ongoing prototype
activities, many other offices across NWS are exploring new ways
of providing decision support services. This SDD describes how
NWS will incorporate best practices from these prototype
activities into our support for the emergency management
community across NWS.
NWS policy requires that public comment/review before 
implementing new or substantially modified products or
services. To date, we determined products/services to be new or
substantially modified based on product content or method of
delivery. This framework does not fit well with the paradigm of
IDSS because such services may vary in content and method of
delivery depending on the nature of the particular customer or
event being addressed.
To address NWS enhancements to IDSS, we will be providing a 
series of SDDs describing who we plan to provide our services to
and what types of decisions we plan to support. The SDD addressed
in this notice is for IDSS for the emergency management
community. This SDD, which supports events/incidents impacting
safety of life and property, may be accessed at:
http://weather.gov/sp/idss_sdd_emc_extend.pdf Please provide comments on the proposed IDSS enhancements as 
described in this document by September 23, 2013, to:
nws.idss.comments@xxxxxxxx If you have comments or questions regarding this Public 
Information Statement, please contact:
Wendy Levine 
  National Weather Service
  Silver Spring Maryland 20910
  301-713-3380 x 133
  wendy.levine@xxxxxxxx
National Public Information Statements are online at: http://www.weather.gov/os/notif.htm $$
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