[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 185 (Friday, September 24, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Page 51734]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-24950]



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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration


Advisory Committee Meeting

    Pursuant to the provisions of section 10(a)(2) of the Federal 
Advisory Committee Act (Pub. L. 92-463), notice is hereby given of the 
following committee meeting:

    Name: Grain Inspection Advisory Committee.
    Dates: October 21-22, 1999.
    Place: Omni Royal Orleans Hotel, 621 St. Louis Street, New 
Orleans, Louisiana.
    Time: 8:00 a.m.-11:30 a.m. on October 21 and October 22, 1999.
    Purpose: To provide advice to the Administrator of the Grain 
Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration (GIPSA) with 
respect to the implementation of the U.S. Grain Standards Act (7 
U.S.C. 71 et seq.).
    The agenda includes a review and discussion of GIPSA's financial 
status and fee proposals, reauthorization, biotechnology, 
deoxynivalenol testing in barley, feed wheat, wheat cleanliness, and 
other related issues concerning the delivery of grain inspection and 
weighing services to American agriculture.
    The meeting will be open to the public. Public participation 
will be limited to written statements, unless permission is received 
from the Committee Chairman to orally address the Committee. 
Persons, other than members, who wish to address the Committee or 
submit written statements before or after the meeting, should 
contact the Administrator, GIPSA, U.S. Department of Agriculture, 
1400 Independence Avenue, SW, STOP 3601, Washington, DC 20250-3601, 
telephone (202) 720-0219 or FAX (202) 205-9237.

    Dated: September 20, 1999.
James R. Baker,
Administrator, Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration.
[FR Doc. 99-24950 Filed 9-23-99; 8:45 am]
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