[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 193 (Tuesday, October 6, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Pages 53691-53692]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-26679]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Fish and Wildlife Service


Aquatic Nuisance Species Task Force Meeting

AGENCY: Fish and Wildlife Service, Interior.

ACTION: Notice of meeting.

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SUMMARY: This notice announces a meeting of the Aquatic Nuisance 
Species Task Force's Ruffe Control Committee. The meeting is open to 
the public. Meeting topics are identified in the SUPPLEMENTARY 
INFORMATION.

DATES: The Ruffe Control Committee will meet from 1:00 p.m. on 
Wednesday, October 28, 1998, through noon on Thursday, October 29, 
1998.

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at the Canal Park Inn Duluth--
Lakeshore, 250 Canal Park Drive (at Lake Avenue and I-35), Duluth, 
Minnesota.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Tom Busiahn, Chairman, 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, this notice announces a public meeting of the 
Ruffe Control Committee of the Aquatic Nuisance Species Task Force. The 
Task Force was established by the Nonindigenous Aquatic Nuisance 
Prevention and Control Act of 1990.
    Topics to be covered will include: the status of existing ruffe 
populations, results of the 1998 ruffe surveillance

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and the experimental ruffe population reduction in Chequamegon Bay; 
updates on the ballast water management initiatives, the Chicago ship 
and sanitary canal dispersal barrier, the bait fish management 
initiatives, public education activities, and ruffe research projects; 
and a discussion of the resilience fish communities to ruffe invasions.
    Minutes of the meeting will be maintained by the Chair, Ruffe 
Control Committee, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Fishery Resources 
Office, 2800 Lake Shore Drive East, Ashland, Wisconsin 54806-2427, and 
Executive Secretary, Aquatic Nuisance Species Task Force, Suite 851, 
4401 North Fairfax Drive, Arlington, Virginia 22203-1622. They will be 
available for public inspection at these locations during regular 
business hours, Monday through Friday, within 30 days following the 
meeting.

    Dated: September 18, 1998.
Gary Edwards,
Co-Chair, Aquatic Nuisance Species Task Force Assistant Director--
Fisheries.
[FR Doc. 98-26679 Filed 10-5-98; 8:45 am]
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