[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 186 (Tuesday, September 24, 1996)]
[Notices]
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[FR Doc No: 96-24452]


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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

Office of the Secretary


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

    The Secretary of Agriculture has established the National 
Agricultural Research, Extension, Education, and Economics Advisory 
Board pursuant to section 802 of the Federal Agriculture Improvement 
and Reform Act of 1996 (Pub. L. 104-127), and has appointed members to 
the Advisory Board.
    Terms of appointment are from one to three years. Each member will 
represent at least one of 30 areas of constituent interest, as 
specified in the legislation. The Advisory Board's first meeting is 
September 16-18, 1996 in Washington, DC. (Federal Register, Vol. 61, 
No. 170, page 45932, Friday, August 30, 1996).
    Twenty-nine members selected so far are Frank Busta, St. Paul, MN, 
University of Minnesota; Zerle Carpenter, Bryan, TX, Texas A&M 
University; Gail Cassell, Birmingham, AL, University of Alabama-
Birmingham; Mary Clutter, Washington, D.C., National Science 
Foundation; John Dillard, Leland, MS, self-employed farmer; Dan Dooley, 
Visalia, CA, self-employed farmer; Kirk Ferrell, Arlington, VA, 
National Pork Producers Council; Hector Garza, Silver Spring, MD, 
American Council on Education; David Gipp, Mandan, ND, United Tribes 
Technology College; Jerry Don Glover, Muleshoe, TX, Texas Corn 
Producers Board; I. Miley Gonzalez, Las Cruces, NM, New Mexico State 
University; Victor Lechtenberg, W. LaFayette, IN, Purdue University; 
Thomas Lyon, Shawano, WI, Cooperative Resources International; Sam 
Minor, Washington, PA, The Springhouse Co.; Janice Nixon, Sterling, CO, 
Colorado State University Cooperative Extension; Russ Notar, Wheaton, 
MD, National Cooperative Business Association; Ralph Paige, LaGrange, 
GA, Federation of Southern Cooperatives; Skee Rasmussen, Belvidere, SD, 
self-employed rancher; Richard Ross, Ames, IA, Iowa State University; 
Barbara Schneeman, Davis, CA, University of California-Davis; Ann 
Sorensen, Oregon IL, American Farmland Trust; Dolores Spikes, Baton 
Rouge, LA, Southern University and A&M College System; Joe Stewart, 
Battle Creek, MI, Kellogg Co; Barbara Stowe, Manhattan, KS, Kansas 
State University; Larry Tombaugh, Cary, NC, North Carolina State 
University; Ann Vidaver, Lincoln, NE, University of Nebraska-Lincoln; 
Kaye Wachsmuth, Washington, D.C., USDA's Food Safety and Inspection 
Service; Ronald Warfield, Gibson City, IL, Illinois Farm Bureau; Steven 
Watts, Colfax, WA, The McGregor Co.; and Nancy Wellman, Miami, FL, 
Florida International University.
    Ex-Officio Members of the Advisory Board are Agriculture Secretary, 
Dan Glickman; Acting Under Secretary of Agriculture for Research, 
Education, and Economics, Catherine Woteki; Administrator of 
Agricultural Research Service, Floyd Horn; Administrator of the 
Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service, Bob 
Robinson; Administrator of the Economics Research Service, Susan 
Offutt; and Administrator of the National Agricultural Statistics 
Service, Don Bay. The Executive Director of the Advisory Board is 
Deborah Hanfman, who formerly served as the USDA Coordinator to the 
President's National Science and Technology Council. Questions should 
be directed to the Office of the Advisory Board; Research, Education, 
and Economics at (202) 720-3684.

    Done at Washington, DC., this 11th day of September 1996.
Catherine E. Woteki,
Acting Under Secretary, Research, Education, and Economics.
[FR Doc. 96-24452 Filed 9-23-96; 8:45 am]
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