Seven major U.S. government departments and independent 

 agencies, and the New York Department of Environmental 

 Conservation, have participated in IFYGL (Table 1). In addition, 15 

 private institutions were involved in the IFYGL data collection 

 and/or analysis, (Table 2). 



The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the U.S. 

 lead agency for IFYGL, established a U.S. IFYGL Project Office, 

 which carries responsibility for the U.S. field operations, data 

 acquisition system engineering and testing, data management, and 

 scientific studies. 



Table l.—LI.S. Federal agencies participating in IFYGL 



Departnnent or Agency 

 Department of Commerce Environmental Protection Agency 



Department of Defense National Aeronautics and Space 



Department of Interior Administration 



Department of Transportation National Science Foundation 



Table 2.— U.S. non-FederaJ participating institutions 



Beukers Laboratories State University of New York 



Cape Fear Technical Institute Texas Instruments, Inc. 



Center for the Environment and Man University of Miami 



CALSPAN, Inc. University of Michigan 



The General Electric Company, Inc. University of Nevada 



Manhattan College University of Rochester 

 National Center for Atmospheric Research University of Washington 



New York State Department of University of Wisconsin 

 Environmental Conservation 



PROGRAM APPROACH 



IFYGL Schedule and Technical Plan 



An outline of the U.S. schedule for IFYGL is given in Figure 1, 

 which shows the phasing of six major activities over a 6-year period. 

 The present schedule for field operations, April 1, 1972, to March 31, 

 1973 was agreed upon in April 1971 by representatives of the United 

 States and Canada. Not reflected in Figure 1 is the fact that the 

 planning began some 7 years ago in 1966. The results of the past 

 many years of work by the Steering Committee, the scientific panels 

 and subcommittees and the two McMaster University workshops 

 have now been brought into focus by the IFYGL Technical Plan, a 

 four-volume compendium issued in April 1972 (Table 3). In 

 accordance with a decision by the Joint Management Team, a draft 

 plan was prepared, and the Washington Workshop convened in 



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