[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 88 (Monday, May 6, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Page 20210]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-11148]



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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service


Committee of Nine Meeting Cancellation

    Section 869 of the Federal Agriculture Improvement and Reform Act 
of 1996 (Pub. L. 104-127) amends Section 3(c)3 of the Act of March 2, 
1887 (Hatch Act of 1887), by repealing the Committee of Nine. This 
committee represented the directors of State agricultural experiment 
stations in providing recommendations to the Secretary of Agriculture 
on cooperative regional research projects and related program policy 
and procedures. Therefore, as a result of the aforementioned repeal, 
Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service announces 
cancellation of the following meeting:

Name: Committee of Nine.
Date and Time:
    May 15, 1996, 8:30 a.m.-5:00 p.m.
    May 16, 1996, 8:30 a.m.-Noon.
Place: USDA, CSREES, 14th & Independence Avenue, SW, Room 3854 South 
Building, Washington, D.C. 20250.
Action: This meeting has been cancelled.
Contact person for more information: Dr. George E. Cooper, Executive 
Secretary, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Cooperative State 
Research, Education, and Extension Service, 14th & Independence 
Avenue, SW., Room 3851, South Building, Washington, D.C. 20250, 
Telephone: 202-720-4088.

    Done at Washington, D.C. this 30th day of April 1996.
B. H. Robinson,
Administrator, Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension 
Service.
[FR Doc. 96-11148 Filed 5-3-96; 8:45 am]
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