[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 170 (Friday, August 30, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Page 45932]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-22157]


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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE


National Agricultural Research, Extension, Education, and 
Economics Advisory Board Meeting

    In accordance with the Federal Agriculture Improvement and Reform 
(FAIR) Act of April 4, 1996 (Public Law 104-127, 110 Stat. 1156-1184), 
the United States Department of Agriculture has scheduled the initial 
meeting of:

    Name: National Agricultural Research, Extension, Education and 
Economics Advisory Board.
    Date: September 16-17, 1996, September 18, 1996.
    Time: 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., 8:30 a.m. to Noon.
    Place: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Room 104A-Williamsburg; 
Jamie L. Whitten Federal Building, 14th and Independence Ave, SW., 
Washington, DC 20250.
    Type of Meeting: Open to the public.
    Comments: The public may file written comments before or after 
the meeting with the contact person listed below.
    Purpose: The Secretary of Agriculture has filled the Advisory 
Board's 30 positions from more than 400 nominations solicited from 
600 United States organizations identified as having agricultural 
research, extension, education, and economic interests. Each member 
represents one of 30 constituent categories, as identified in the 
legislation. Members were assigned initial terms of one, two, or 
three years. A list of Advisory Board appointees will be published 
in the Federal Register prior to the September 16-18 meeting. The 
Secretary of Agriculture; Under Secretary for Research, Education, 
and Economics; and the Administrators (Agricultural Research 
Service; Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension 
Service; Economic Research Service; and National Agricultural 
Statistical Service) will serve as Advisory Board ex officio 
members. The Advisory Board expires September 30, 2002.
    Advisory Board duties include reviewing and consulting with the 
Secretary of Agriculture and land-grant colleges and universities on 
long-term and short-term national policies and priorities related to 
agricultural research, extension, education, and economics; 
evaluating the effectiveness of those policies and priorities; and 
reviewing and making recommendations to the Under Secretary for 
Research, Education, and Economics on elements of the mission area's 
draft strategic plan.
    The initial Advisory Board meeting agenda includes: nomination 
and election of Executive Committee members; reviewing of the 
Research, Education, and Economics draft Strategic Plan; 
recommendation of criteria for allocating research, extension, and 
education grants for the Fund for Rural America; and development of 
a slate of nominees to the 15-member ``Strategic Planning Task 
Force.''
    Contact person for Agenda and more information: Deborah Hanfman, 
Executive Director, National Agricultural Research, Extension, 
Education, and Economics Board, Research, Education, and Economics 
Advisory Board Office, Room 3918, South Building, U.S. Department of 
Agriculture, Washington, DC 20250-2255, Telephone: 202-720-3684.

    Done at Washington, DC this 23d day of August 1996.
Catherine E. Woteki,
Acting Under Secretary, Research, Education, and Economics.
[FR Doc. 96-22157 Filed 8-29-96; 8:45 am]
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