[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 196 (Thursday, October 9, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Page 52765]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-26795]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Fish and Wildlife Service


Ruffe Control Committee Meeting

AGENCY: Department of the Interior, Fish and Wildlife Service.

ACTION: Notice of meeting.

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SUMMARY: This notice announces a meeting of the Ruffe Control 
Committee, a committee of the Aquatic Nuisance Species Task Force. The 
purposes of the upcoming meeting are to: (1) Review current information 
on ruffe populations; (2) review progress on implementation of the 
eight components of the Ruffe Control Program; and (3) review the 
status of the Ruffe Control Program and the Committee. Products of the 
meeting will be: (1) material for a report to the Aquatic Nuisance 
Species Task Force on 1997 activities; and (2) recommendations from the 
Committee to the Task Force regarding the future of the Ruffe Control 
Program and the Committee. An optional field trip is planned to trawl 
for ruffe in Duluth-Superior Harbor.

DATES: The Ruffe Control Committee will meet from 1:00 p.m. to 5:00 
p.m. on Wednesday, October 29, 1997, and 8:00 a.m. to 12 Noon on 
Thursday, October 30, 1997. The optional field trip will begin at 9:00 
a.m., Wednesday, October 29, 1997.

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at the Days Inn, 110 East Second 
Street, Superior, Wisconsin. The optional field trip will leave from 
the Days Inn.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Tom Busiahn, Chair, Ruffe Control 
Committee, at 715-682-6185, or Bob Peoples, Executive Secretary, 
Aquatic Nuisance Species Task Force, at 703-358-2025.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Pursuant to section 10(a)(2) of the Federal 
Advisory Committee Act (5 U.S.C. App. I), this notice announces a 
meeting of the Ruffe Control Committee, a committee of the Aquatic 
Nuisance Species Task Force established under the authority of the 
Nonindigenous Aquatic Nuisance Prevention and Control Act of 1990 (16 
U.S.C. 4701-4741). Minutes of the meeting will be maintained by the 
Executive Secretary, Aquatic Nuisance Species Task Force, Suite 840, 
4401 North Fairfax Drive, Arlington, Virginia 22203-1622, and the 
Chair, Ruffe Control Committee, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Fishery 
Resources Office, 2800 Lake Shore Drive East, Ashland, Wisconsin 54806, 
and will be available for public inspection during regular business 
hours, Monday through Friday, within 30 days following the meeting.

    Dated: October 3, 1997.
Gary Edwards,
Co-Chair, Aquatic Nuisance, Species Task Force Assistant Director--
Fisheries.
[FR Doc. 97-26795 Filed 10-8-97; 8:45 am]
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