2. Executive Office of the President · Minor
Confine USGCRP-related EOP research components to an advisory role
Printed page 60 2. Executive Office of the President
“The President should also restore related EOP research components to their purely informational and advisory roles. Consistent with the Global Change Research Act of 1990, USGCRP-related EOP components should be confined to a more limited advisory role. These components should include but not necessarily be limited to the OSTP; the NSTC's Committee on Environment; the USGCRP's Interagency Groups (for example, the Carbon Cycle Interagency Working Group); and the Federal Coordinating Council for Science, Engineering, and Technology.”
What has happened
- Not started
The EOP research components named in the Quote have not been confined to an advisory role. Nothing in the window restructures OSTP, the National Science and Technology Council's Committee on Environment, the USGCRP interagency working groups or the Federal Coordinating Council for Science, Engineering and Technology, and OSTP is still running the USGCRP as a program — it published the proposed NCA5 amendment on the program's behalf in August 2026 and staffs its directorship. EO 14303 reaches scientific conduct across agencies but changes no EOP body's charter.
Research log
What was searched, and what didn’t count as evidence
Research notes
Negative search. In the federal records we keep and search: all executive orders in the window listed by title; a search for “National Science and Technology Council”, “Federal Coordinating Council” or “carbon cycle” returns nothing reorganizing these bodies. Read EO 14303 and the OSTP Gold Standard Science guidance in full. The August 2026 notice is attached because it shows OSTP still acting as the program’s executive rather than as an adviser.
- Action
- restrict
- Object
- USGCRP-related EOP research components
- ID
- 83