[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 203 (Wednesday, October 21, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Pages 56144-56145]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-28237]


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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

Research, Education, and Economics


Notice of Appointments for Membership to the National 
Agricultural Research, Extension, Education, and Economics Advisory 
Board

AGENCY: Research, Education, and Economics, USDA.

ACTION: Appointments of membership.

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SUMMARY: The Secretary of Agriculture announces the new appointments to 
fill 12 vacancies on the National Agricultural Research, Extension, 
Education, and Economics Advisory Board.

DATES: Appointments effective October 1, 1998.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Section 802 of the Federal Agriculture 
Improvement and Reform Act of 1996 authorized the creation of the 
National Agricultural Research, Extension, Education, and Economics 
Advisory Board. The Board is composed of 30 members, each representing 
a specific category in the legislation, which relates to farming or 
ranching, food and fiber production and processing, transportation of 
agricultural products, forestry research, aquaculture research, crop, 
soil, and animal science, human health associations, land-grant 
institutions, food retailing and marketing, rural economic development, 
farm cooperatives, and natural resource and consumer interest groups, 
among others. The Board members were first appointed in September 1996; 
one-third of the 30 members were appointed for a 1, 2, and 3 year term, 
respectively. The Advisory Board's role is to advise the Secretary of 
Agriculture on policies, priorities, and critical issues in 
agricultural research and education. As a result of the staggered 
appointments, the terms for 10 of the 30 members expired September 30, 
1998. The Secretary of Agriculture has recently appointed 10 
individuals to fill these membership slots. (Each will serve a 3-year 
appointment, effective October 1, 1998, until September 30, 2001.) Two 
additional appointments were made to fill two vacant slots for the 1-
year remaining terms effective October 1, 1998, until September 30, 
1999. The 12 newly appointed Advisory Board members, by category are: 
Category E: National Animal Commodity Organizations, John F. Clemmons, 
family cattle rancher in the high plains region of New Mexico; Category 
G: National Aquaculture Associations (1-year term), T. Michael Freeze, 
past president of the National Aquaculture Association, from Keo, 
Arkansas; Category H: National Food Animal Science Societies, Desmond 
A. Jolly, vice chair of the National Commission on Small Farms, 
Director of University of California-Davis Small Farms programs, and 
widely diversified in agriculture and member of several animal and food 
related organizations; Category I: National Crop, Soil, Agronomy, 
Horticulture or Weed Science Societies, Martin A. Massengale, partner 
in a family farm, President-Emeritus of University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 
Director of Center for Grassland Studies, former president of Crop 
Science Society of America; Category N: 1890 Land-Grant Colleges and 
Universities, Walter A. Hill, Dean of Agriculture, Tuskegee University, 
Alabama, and Research Director, George Washington Carver Agricultural 
Experiment Station; Category O: 1994 Equity in Education Land Grant 
Institutions, Gerald ``Carty'' Monette, president of Turtle Mountain 
Community College, Belmont, North Dakota, and President of American 
Indian Higher Education Consortium; Category R: Scientific Community 
not Closely Associated with Agriculture (1-year term), William H. 
Scouten, Director of the Biotechnology Center, Utah State University; 
Category T: Food Retailing and Marketing, Samuel E. Minor 
(Reappointed), owner and operator of farm and Spring House restaurant 
in Washington, Pennsylvania; Category V: Rural Economic Development, 
Ralph Paige (Reappointed), Executive Director of V: Rural Economic 
Development, Ralph Paige (Reappointed), Executive Director of 
Federation of Southern Cooperatives/Land Assistance Fund, East Point, 
Georgia; Category W: National Consumer Interest Groups, Barbara S. 
Stowe (Reappointed), former Dean, College of Human Ecology, Kansas 
State University, currently consultant for AESOP on consumer issues; 
Category X: National Forestry Groups, Larry W. Tombaugh (Reappointed), 
Dean, College of Forest Resources, North Carolina State University; and 
Category Y: National Conservation or Natural Resource Groups, Cynthia 
A. Dunn, Executive Director of the Pennsylvania Audubon Society, 
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, broadly diversified on natural resource and 
environmental issues, and an environmental educator of youth.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Deborah Hanfman, Executive Director, 
National Agricultural Research, Extension, Education, and Economics 
Advisory Board, Research, Education, and Economics Advisory Board 
Office, Room 3918 South Building, U.S. Department of Agriculture, STOP: 
2255, 1400 Independence Avenue, SW, Washington, DC 20250-2255. 
Telephone: 202-720-3684. Fax: 202-720-6199, or e-mail: 
[email protected].


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    Done at Washington, D.C. this 6th day of October 1998.
I. Miley Gonzalez,
Under Secretary, Research, Education, and Economics.
[FR Doc. 98-28237 Filed 10-20-98; 8:45 am]
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