[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 247 (Thursday, December 24, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Pages 71266-71267]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-34108]
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Forest Service
Committee of Scientists Meeting
AGENCY: Forest Service, USDA.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: The Committee of Scientists will hold a public teleconference
call on Thursday, January 7, 1999. The teleconference call will begin
at 12 p.m. and end at 4 p.m. (eastern standard 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 this teleconference call 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 Thursday, January 7,
1999, from 12 p.m. to 4 p.m. (eastern standard time).
ADDRESSES: The teleconference will be held at the USDA Forest Service
headquarters, Auditor's Building, 201 14th Street, SW., Washington, DC,
in the Roosevelt Conference Room 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, PO 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 teleconference, 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 Missoula, MT
E Broadway.
Region 2--Rocky Mountain 740 Simms St.......... Golden, CO
Region.
Region 3--Southwestern Region. Federal Building, 517 Albuquerque, NM
Gold Ave., SW.
Region 4--Intermountain Region Federal Building, 324 Ogden, UT
25th St.
Region 5--Pacific Southwest 630 Sansome St........ San Francisco,
Region. CA
Region 6--Pacific Northwest 333 SW 1st Ave........ Portland, OR
Region.
Region 8--Southern Region..... 1720 Peachtree Rd. NW. Atlanta, GA
Region 9--Eastern Region...... 310 W. Wisconsin Ave., Milwaukee, WI
Room 500.
Region 10--Alaska Region Federal Office Juneau, AK
(office will open early). Building, 709 W. 9th
St.
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The Committee of Scientists was 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: December 18, 1998.
Randle G. Phillips,
Acting Deputy Chief for National Forest System.
[FR Doc. 98-34108 Filed 12-23-98; 8:45 am]
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