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Through this notice the OIG is seeking your help in conducting a thorough review into this issue.

NASA policy on the dissemination of scientific and technical information derives from The National Aeronautics and Space Act of 1958, as amended, and is primarily implemented by NASA Policy Directive 2200.1 and NASA Procedural Requirements 2200.2B. The policy directive states, in pertinent part, the following:

NASA shall provide for the widest practicable and appropriate
dissemination of the STI [Scientific and Technical Information]
resulting from NASA's research effort, while precluding the
inappropriate dissemination of sensitive information. NASA shall
disseminate STI in a manner consistent with U.S. laws and regulations,
Federal information policy, intellectual property rights, technology
transfer protection requirements, and budgetary and technological
limitations.

Accordingly, the OIG asks that if you have personal knowledge of NASA research (pertaining to climate change) having been wrongfully, unlawfully, or without good cause changed, suppressed, or censored, that you contact the OIG either:

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The identity of anyone who provides the OIG with information will be protected, consistent with the Inspector General Act of 1978 and the Privacy Act. Also, the Whistleblower Protection Act protects any civil servant who provides information to the OIG from any form of reprisal, retribution or adverse action by their employer if those actions are taken solely because of the information being shared with the Office of Inspector General.

While the OIG will accept information at any time on this or any other matter, we request a response to this notice, if any, no later than February 16, 2007.