[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 134 (Monday, July 14, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Page 37538]
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[FR Doc No: 97-18384]



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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

Research, Education, and Economics


Notice of Strategic Planning Task Force Meeting

AGENCY: Research, Education, and Economics, USDA.
ACTION: Notice of meeting.

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SUMMARY: The United States Department of Agriculture announces a 
meeting of the Strategic Planning Task Force on Research Facilities.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Strategic Planning Task Force on 
Research Facilities which consists of 15 members, have scheduled to 
meet for the second of eight planned meetings. The meeting is scheduled 
to be held at the Holiday Inn-University Park in Ft. Collins, Colorado, 
beginning at 1 p.m. on August 25 and concluding at 4 p.m. on August 27. 
The meeting will focus on what has transpired since the initial meeting 
on May 28-30, 1997, in Ames, Iowa, and what has been accomplished 
since. One day of the meeting will be spent touring various ARS, FS, 
and APHIS research facilities. At the first meeting, a draft agenda on 
ways to implement the charge of the Secretary was introduced and a 
format for subsequent meetings established.

Times and Dates: August 25, 1997, 1 p.m.--8 p.m.; August 26, 1997, 8 
a.m--8 p.m.; and August 27, 1997, 8 a.m.--4 p.m.

Place: Holiday Inn--University Park, 425 W. Prospect Avenue, Ft. 
Collins, CO 80526.

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.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mitch Geasler, Project Director, 
Strategic Planning Task Force on Research Facilities, Room 212-W, Jamie 
L. Whitten Building, USDA, 1400 Independence Avenue, S.W., Washington, 
D.C. 20250. Telephone (202) 720-3803.

    Done at Washington, D.C. this 8th day of July 1997.
Catherine E. Woteki,
Acting Under Secretary, Research, Education, and Economics.
[FR Doc. 97-18384 Filed 7-11-97; 8:45 am]
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