[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 69 (Tuesday, April 9, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Pages 15758-15759]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-8820]



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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Foreign Agricultural Service


Meeting of Advisory Committee on Emerging Democracies

AGENCY: Foreign Agricultural Service, USDA.

ACTION: Notice of meeting.

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SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given that the fifth meeting of the Advisory 
Committee on Emerging Democracies will be held April 18, 1996. The 
purpose of the committee is to provide information and advice, based 
upon knowledge and expertise of the members, useful to the U.S. 
Department of Agriculture (USDA) in implementing the program on sharing 
agricultural expertise with emerging democracies. The committee will 
also advise USDA on ways to increase the involvement of the U.S. 
private sector in cooperative work with emerging democracies in food 
and rural business systems.

DATES: The meeting will be held Thursday, April 18, 1996 from 9:00 a.m. 
to 5:30 p.m. The meeting will be held in Room 5066-South of the U.S. 
Department of Agriculture in Washington, D.C.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The minutes of the meeting announced in this 
Notice shall be available for review. The meeting is open to the public 
and members of the public may provide comments in writing to Douglas 
Freeman, Foreign Agricultural Service, Room 6506 South Building, U.S. 
Department of Agriculture, 14th and Independence Avenue SW, Washington, 
D.C. 20250, but should not make any oral comments at the meeting unless 
invited to do so by the Co-chairpersons.

    Signed at Washington, D.C. April 4, 1996.
August Schumacher, Jr.,
Administrator, Foreign Agricultural Service.
[FR Doc. 96-8820 Filed 4-8-96; 8:45 am]
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