[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 58 (Monday, March 27, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Pages 15787-15788]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-7458]



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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Geological Survey


Notice

SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given that the U.S. Geological Survey is 
planning to enter into a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement 
(CRADA) with a geophysical data processing company (Paterson, Grant and 
Watson Limited) and mining and petroleum companies. The purpose of the 
CRADA is to reprocess the magnetic-anomaly data base on the United 
States and produce a more consistent and accurate data set in the form 
of a one-kilometer grid that will be made available to the general 
public. All magnetic survey data will be continued to a surface at 1000 
feet above the ground and an appropriate reference field will be 
removed. Paterson, Grant and Watson Limited will be responsible for 
acquiring funding from petroleum and mining companies for this 
[[Page 15788]] compilation and will carry out the reprocessing of over 
1000 magnetic survey data sets. The USGS will provide magnetic data and 
will carry out collaborative research to improve the technology in 
preprocessing magnetic-anomaly data. Any geoscience company interested 
in participating in this upgrade of the U.S. magnetic-anomaly data base 
is encouraged to contract the USGS.

DATES: This notice is effective March 27, 1995.

ADDRESSES: Information on the proposed CRADA is available to the public 
upon request at the following location: U.S. Geological Survey, Branch 
of Geophysics, 345 Middlefield Road, MS 989, Menlo Park, California 
94025.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dr. Thomas Hildenbrand of the U.S. 
Geological Survey, Branch of Geophysics, at the address given above; 
telephone 414/329-5303; fax 415/329-5133; e-mail 
[email protected].
John R. Filson,
Acting Chief Geologist.
[FR Doc. 95-7458 Filed 3-24-95; 8:45 am]
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