[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 141 (Wednesday, July 23, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Pages 39536-39537]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-19330]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service


Greater Yellowstone Interagency Brucellosis Committee

AGENCY: National Park Service, Department of the Interior.

ACTION: Notice of meeting.

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SUMMARY: This notice announces a scheduled meeting of the Greater 
Yellowstone Interagency Brucellosis Committee (GYIBC). Notice of this 
meeting is voluntary and is provided for the public and other Agency 
information.

MEETING DATE AND TIME: August 05-08, 1997. Information/Education and 
Technical Subcommittees to meet August 5, 1997, 10:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m., 
and August 6, 1997, 8:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. The Executive Committee will 
meet August 7, 1997, 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m., and August 8, 1997, 8:30 
a.m.-12:00 p.m.

ADDRESSES: Holiday Inn-Westbank, 475 River Parkway, Idaho Falls, Idaho, 
(208) 523-8000.

SPECIFIC AGENDA ITEMS INCLUDE: Reports from the Technical and the 
Information/Education Subcommittees, findings of the recent Wyoming 
station review, discussion on the structure, role, and function of the 
recently approved Research Subcommittee, an update on the Yellowstone 
National Park/Montana Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) preferred 
alternative. The meeting will be open to the public. However,

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facilities and space for accommodating members of the public are 
limited, and persons will be accommodated on a first-come-first-served 
basis. Any member of the public may address the Executive Committee by 
indicating such on the sign-in sheet available at the beginning of the 
meeting each day. Minutes of the meeting will be available for public 
inspection after Executive Committee approval by contacting the office 
of the GYIBC Administrative Assistant at the National Park Service, 
Denver, Colorado (address listed below).

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The GYIBC was formed by the governors of 
Wyoming, Montana and Idaho, and the Secretaries of Interior and 
Agriculture to address the issues surrounding brucellosis in the 
Greater Yellowstone Area (GYA). The group's goal is to protect and 
sustain the free-ranging elk and bison populations in the GYA and to 
protect the public interests and economic viability of the livestock 
industry in Idaho, Montana and Wyoming, while planning for the 
elimination of brucellosis in the GYA by the year 2010.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Dr. Dan Huff, GYIBC Chairman & Assistant Field Director, Natural 
Resources & Sciences, Intermountain Regional Office, National Park 
Service, 12795 W. Alameda Parkway, P.O. Box 25287, Denver, Colorado 
80225-0287, (303) 969-2651

or

Ms. Dawn Carey, GYIBC Administrative Assistant, Colorado Plateau 
Support Office, CPSO-E, National Park Service, 12795 W. Alameda 
Parkway, P.O. Box 25287, Denver, Colorado 80225-0287, (303) 987-6649.

    Date: July 2, 1997.
Dan Huff,
GYIBC Chairman.
[FR Doc. 97-19330 Filed 7-22-97; 8:45 am]
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