[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 12 (Wednesday, January 20, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Pages 3063-3064]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-1177]


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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 three public 
teleconference calls; one on Thursday, January 28; one on Tuesday, 
February 2; and one on Thursday, February 4. Each teleconference call 
will begin at 12 p.m. and end at 3 p.m. (eastern standard time). The 
purpose of these telephone conference calls 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 teleconferences, only at the request of the 
Committee.

DATES: The teleconference calls will be held on Thursday, January 28; 
Tuesday, February 2; and Thursday, February 4, from 12 p.m. to 3 p.m. 
(eastern standard time).

ADDRESSES: The teleconferences will be held at the USDA Forest Service 
headquarters, Auditor's Building, 201 14th Street, SW., Washington, DC, 
in the Roosevelt Conference Room on January 28 and February 4 and in 
the McArdle Conference Room on February 2. The teleconference calls can 
be accessed 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 Commitee may be accessed via the Internet at 
www.cof.orst.edu./org/scicomm/.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For additional information concerning 
the teleconferences, contact Bob Cunningham, Designated Federal 
Official to the Committee of Scientists, by telephonne (202) 205-1523.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The public may attend the teleconferences at 
the following field locations:

                                                      USDA Forest Service Regional Office Locations
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Region 1, Northern Region.............  Federal Building, 200 E Broadway.........................................  Missoula, MT.
Region 2, Rocky Mountain Region.......  740 Simms St.............................................................  Golden, CO.
Region 3, Southwestern Region.........  Federal Building, 517 Gold Ave., SW......................................  Albuquerque, NM.
Region 4, Intermountain Region........  Federal Building, 324 25th St............................................  Ogden, UT.
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 500..........................................  Milwaukee, WI.
Region 10, Alaska Region (office will   Federal Office Building, 709 W. 9th St...................................  Juneau, AK.
 open early).
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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: January 13, 1999.
Gloria Manning,
Acting Deputy Chief for National Forest System.
[FR Doc. 99-1177 Filed 1-19-99; 8:45 am]
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