[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 162 (Monday, August 21, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Page 50718]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-21227]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Minerals Management Service


Notice and Agenda for Meeting of the Royalty Policy Committee of 
the Minerals Management Advisory Board

AGENCY: Minerals Management Service, Interior.

ACTION: Notice of meeting.

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SUMMARY: The Secretary of the Department of the Interior established a 
Royalty Policy Committee (Committee) on the Minerals Management 
Advisory Board to provide advice on our management of Federal and 
Indian minerals leases, revenues, and other minerals related policies. 
Committee membership includes representatives from States, Indian 
Tribes and allottee organizations, minerals industry associations, the 
general public, and other Federal departments.
    This will be the eleventh meeting of the Committee. A chairperson 
will be elected, majority and minority reports on Sodium/Potassium 
draft valuation regulations will be presented for consideration, and 
the Coal and Accounting Relief for Marginal Properties subcommittees 
will present interim reports. We will be prepared to discuss our 
royalty-in-kind programs, and our administrative appeal procedures. 
Guest presenters will discuss the State of Texas's program of 
exchanging natural gas for electricity and the results of a natural gas 
study.

DATES: Thursday, September 7, 2000, 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m., Mountain 
Daylight Savings time.

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at the Sheraton Denver West Hotel, 
360 Union Boulevard., Lakewood, CO 80228, telephone number (303) 987-
2000.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Gary L. Fields, Chief, Program 
Services Office, Royalty Management Program, Minerals Management 
Service, PO Box 25165, MS 3062, Denver, CO 80225-0165, telephone number 
(303) 231-3102, fax number (303) 231-3781, e-mail [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The location and dates of future meetings 
will be published in the Federal Register and posted on our Internet 
site at http://www.rmp.mms.gov/Laws_R_D/RoyPC/RoyPC.htm. Meetings will 
be open to the public without advanced registration, on a space 
available basis. The public may make statements during the meetings, to 
the extent time permits, and file written statements with the Committee 
for its consideration; copies of these written statements should be 
submitted to Gary Fields. Within 2 weeks following the conclusion of 
each meeting, the minutes for the meeting will be available for public 
inspection and copying at our offices in Building 85 on the Denver 
Federal Center in Lakewood, Colorado; the minutes will also be posted 
on our Internet site. These meetings are conducted under the authority 
of the Federal Advisory Committee Act (Pub. L. 92-463, 5 U.S.C., 
Appendix 1) and the Office of Management and Budget (Circular No. A-63, 
revised).

    Dated: August 15, 2000.
Lucy Querques Denett,
Associate Director for Royalty Management.
[FR Doc. 00-21227 Filed 8-18-00; 8:45 am]
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