[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 49 (Thursday, March 13, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Page 11849]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-6354]


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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE

Defense Science Board Task Force on Anti-Personnel Landmine 
Alternatives, Landmine Detection and Demining, and Unexploded Ordnance 
(UXO) Clearance Operations

AGENCY: Notice of advisory committee meetings.

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ACTION: The Defense Science Board Task Force on Anti-Personnel Landmine 
Alternatives, Landmine Detection and Demining, and Unexploded Ordnance 
(UXO) Clearance Operations, Phase I will meet in closed session on 
March 26-27 and April 23-24, 1997 at Strategic Analysis, Inc., 
Arlington, Virginia.
    The mission of the Defense Science Board is to advise the Secretary 
of Defense through the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and 
Technology on scientific and technical matters as they affect the 
perceived needs of the Department of Defense. At these meetings the 
Task Force will examine US landmine, landmine detection and demining 
efforts, and alternatives to anti-personnel landmines. It will also 
examine UXO remediation, active range UXO clearance, and explosive 
ordnance disposal (EOD) efforts. It will include in this examination, 
the relationship between the UXO/EOD detection/characterization/
clearance and neutralization issues and landmine detection/
neutralization issues. In accordance with Section 10(d) of the Federal 
Advisory Committee Act, P.L. No. 92-463, as amended (5 U.S.C. App. II, 
(1994)), it has been determined that these DSB Task Force meetings 
concern matters listed in 5 U.S.C. Sec. 552(c)(1) (1994), and that 
accordingly these meetings will be closed to the public.

    Dated: March 10, 1997.
Patricia L. Toppings,
Alternate OSD Federal Register Liaison Officer, Department of Defense.
[FR Doc. 97-6354 Filed 3-12-97; 8:45 am]
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