[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 146 (Thursday, July 30, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Pages 40697-40698]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-20384]
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Forest Service
Committee of Scientists Meetings
AGENCY: Forest Service, USDA.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: The Committee of Scientists will hold a public teleconference
call on August 17, 1998. The teleconference call will begin at 11:00
a.m. and end at 2:00 p.m. (eastern daylight time). The purpose of the
telephone conference call is for the Committee of Scientists to
continue discussion of its report and recommendations to the Secretary
of Agriculture and the Chief of the Forest Service. The public is
invited to attend these teleconference calls and may be provided an
opportunity to comment on the Committee of Scientists' deliberations
during the teleconference, only at the request of the Committee.
DATES: The teleconference call will be held on Monday, August 17, 1998,
from 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. (eastern daylight time).
ADDRESSES: The teleconference will be held at the USDA Forest Service
headquarters, Auditor's Building, 201 14th Street, SW, Washington, DC
in the Graves Conference Room (3rd Floor) and at all Regional Offices
of the Forest Service, which are listed in the table under
Supplementary Information.
Written comments on improving land and resource management planning
may be sent to the Committee of Scientists, P.O. Box 2140, Corvallis,
OR 97339. Also, the Committee may be accessed via the Internet at
www.cof.orst.edu./org/scicomm/.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For additional information concerning
the
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teleconferences, contact Bob Cunningham, Designated Federal Official to
the Committee of Scientists, by telephone (202) 205-1523.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The public may attend the teleconference at
the following field locations:
USDA Forest Service Regional Office Locations
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Region 1, Northern Region............... Federal Building, 200 E Missoula, MT.
Broadway.
Region 2, Rocky Mountain Region......... 740 Sims St................ Golden, CO.
Region 3, Southwestern Region........... Federal Building, 517 Gold Albuquerque, NM.
Ave., SW.
Region 4, Intermountain Region.......... Federal Building, 325 25th Ogden, UT.
St.
Region 5, Pacific Southwest Region...... 630 Sansome St............. San Francisco, CA.
Region 6, Pacific Northwest Region...... 333 SW 1st Ave............. Portland, OR.
Region 8, Southern Region............... 1720 Peachtree Rd. NW...... Atlanta, GA.
Region 9, Eastern Region................ 310 W. Wisconsin Ave., Room Milwaukee, WI.
500.
Region 10, Alaska Region (office will Federal Office Building, Juneau, AK.
open early). 709 W. 9th St.
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The Committee of Scientists is chartered to provide scientific and
technical advice to the Secretary of Agriculture and the Chief of the
Forest Service on improvements that can be made to the National Forest
System land and resource management planning process (62 FR 43691;
August 15, 1997). Notice of the names of the appointed Committee
members was published December 16, 1997 (62 FR 65795).
Dated: July 27, 1998.
Robert C. Joslin,
Deputy Chief, National Forest System.
[FR Doc. 98-20384 Filed 7-29-98; 8:45 am]
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