[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 187 (Friday, September 26, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Page 50622]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-25637]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Minerals Management Service


Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) Policy Committee of the Advisory 
Board; Notice and Agenda for Meeting

AGENCY: Minerals Management Service, Interior.

SUMMARY: The OCS Policy Committee of the Minerals Management Advisory 
Board will meet at the San Luis Resort and Conference Center in 
Galveston, Texas on October 29-30, 1997.
    The agenda will cover the following principal subjects:

--Report from the Coastal Impact Assistance Working Group
--Report from the Hard Minerals Subcommittee
--Central and Western Gulf of Mexico: Update and Challenges
--Update on Leasing and Activity
--Changing Geological Potential--Recent Discoveries and Drilling
--Technology Advances, Issues and Research
--Tight Demand for Rigs and Vessels
--Supply of Labor and Training
--Environmental Studies and Issues
--Eastern Gulf of Mexico Issues
--Geoogical Plays and Ecological Perspective
--Future Developments
--``The Promise and the Reward: 50 Years Offshore''
--U.N. Year of the Ocean
--Congressional Update
--OCS Scientific Committee Update
--Alaska and Pacific Regional Updates

    The meeting is open to the public. Upon request, interested parties 
may make oral or written presentations to the OCS Policy Committee. 
Such requests should be made no later than October 17, 1997, to the 
Minerals Management Service, 381 Elden Street, MS-4001, Herndon, 
Virginia 20170, Attention: Jeryne Bryant.
    Request to make oral statements should be accompanied by a summary 
of the statement to be made. For more information, call Jeryne Bryant 
at (703) 787-1211.
    Minutes of the OCS Policy Committee meeting will be available for 
public inspection and copying at the Minerals Management Service in 
Herndon, Virginia.

DATES: Wednesday, October 29 and Thursday, October 30, 1997.

ADDRESSES: The San Luis Resort and Conference Center, 5222 Seawall 
Boulevard, Galveston, Texas 77551--(800) 445-0090 or (409) 744-1500.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Jeryne Bryant at the address and phone number listed above.

    Authority: Federal Advisory Committee Act, P.L. No. 92-463, 5 
U.S.C. Appendix 1, and the Office of Management and Budget's 
Circular No. A-63, Revised.

    Dated: September 23, 1997.
Thomas A. Readinger,
Acting Associate Director for Offshore Minerals Management.
[FR Doc. 97-25637 Filed 9-25-97; 8:45 am]
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