[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 192 (Wednesday, October 2, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Page 51461]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-25143]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Office of the Secretary


Advisory Committee on Water Data for Public Use; Notice of 
Reestablishment

    This notice is published in accordance with section 9(a)(2) of the 
Federal Advisory Committee Act (Public Law 92-463). Following 
consultation with the General Services Administration, notice is hereby 
given that the Secretary of the Interior is reestablishing and renaming 
the Advisory Committee on Water Data for Public Use. The purpose of the 
Committee shall be to represent the interests of water-resources 
professionals and other water-information users in advising the Federal 
Government, through the U.S. Department of the Interior, on activities 
and plans related to water-information programs and the effectiveness 
of those programs in meeting the Nation's needs.
    Futher information regarding the Committee may be obtained from the 
Chief Hydrologist, U.S. Geological Survey, U.S. Department of the 
Interior, 12201 Sunrise Valley Drive, Reston, Virginia 22092.
    The certification of reestablishing is published below.

Certification

    I hereby certify that reestablishing the Advisory Committee on 
Water Data for Public Use and that renaming it the Advisory Committee 
on Water Information are in the public interest. The public interests 
are related to the performance of duties imposed on the U.S. Department 
of the Interior by 43 U.S.C. 31 (1988), 43 U.S.C. 1457 (1988), by 
language in the annual U.S. Department of the Interior Appropriations 
Acts; and by Office of Management and Budget Memorandum No. 92-01.

    Dated: September 19, 1996.
Bruce Babbitt,
Secretary of the Interior.
[FR Doc. 96-25143 Filed 10-1-96; 8:45 am]
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