[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 201 (Tuesday, October 17, 2000)]
[Notices]
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

Office of the Secretary


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

AGENCY: Research, Education, and Economics, USDA.

ACTION: Solicitation for membership.

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SUMMARY: In accordance with the Federal Advisory Committee Act, 5 
U.S.C. app., the United States Department of Agriculture announces the 
appointments to the 10 vacancies on the National Agricultural Research, 
Extension, Education, and Economics Advisory Board.

DATES: Appointments are for a 3-year term, effective from October 1, 
2000, until September 30, 2003 (pending reauthorization of the Advisory 
Board beyond September 30, 2002, Pub. L. 104-127, Sec. 802).

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Section 802 of the Federal Agricultural 
Improvement and Reform Act of 1996 (The Farm Bill) 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 related to farming or ranching, food 
production and processing, forestry research, crop and animal science, 
land-grant institutions, food retailing and marketing, rural economic 
development, and natural resource and consumer interest groups, among 
many others. The Board was first appointed in September 1996 and one-
third of the 30 members were appointed for a 1, 2, and 3-year term, 
respectively.
    As a result of the staggered appointments, the terms for 10 of the 
30 members who represent 10 specific categories expired September 30, 
2000. The Secretary of Agriculture made 3-year appointments for all 10 
of the vacant categories. Appointees by category of the 10 new members 
are as follows: Representing Category A, National Farm Organization, 
Ronald R. Warfield, President of the Illinois Farm Bureau and Director 
of the American Farm Bureau Federation Executive Committee, was 
reappointed to a second term, Bloomington, Illinois; Category C. Food 
Animal Commodity Producer, Patricia Blum, beef rancher for 40 years and 
past President of South Dakota Beef Industry Council, Reliance, South 
Dakota; Category F. National Crop Commodity Organization, Marc S. 
Curtis, National and State President of the American Soybean 
Association, and farmer of rice, wheat, corn and soybeans, Leland, 
Mississippi; Category K. National Human Health Association, Judith S. 
Stern, Professor, Department of Internal Medicine, Division of 
Endocrinology, Clinical Nutrition and Vascular Medicine, University of 
California-Davis, California; Category P. Hispanic-Serving 
Institutions, John Cordova, President, South Mountain Community 
College, Maricopa Community College System, Phoenix, Arizona; Category 
Q. American Colleges of Veterinary Medicine, Oscar J. Fletcher, Dean, 
College of Veterinary Medicine and Professor of Farm Animal Health and 
Resource Management, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North 
Carolina; Category S. Transportation of Food and Agricultural Products 
to Domestic and Foreign Markets, Emma Jean Cervantes, President of 
Cervantes Enterprises/Agribusiness, 35-year producer of chile peppers, 
cotton, alfalfa, vegetables, and pecans, La Mesa, New Mexico, 
previously appointed to a 1-year term and was reappointed to a full 
term; Category U. Food and Fiber Processors, John Rogers Farquharson, 
President of the International Food Safety Council, and Executive 
Emeritus, ARAMARK Corporation, Sewell, New Jersey, was reappointed to a 
second term; Category Z. Private Sector Organization involved in 
International Development, Shirley Dunlap Bowser, a diversified family 
farmer, engaged in the international dimension of agriculture, and 
Chair of W.K. Kellogg Foundation Board, Williamsport, Ohio; and 
Category CC. National Social Science Association, Jean Clarkson-
Frisbie, Pratt County Extension Agent, Family and Consumer Sciences & 
R-H and Youth, Cooperative Extension Service, Kansas State University, 
Pratt, Kansas. Appointees term will begin on October 1, 2000 and end 
September 30, 2003 (pending reauthorization of the Advisory Board 
beyond September 30, 2002). They will actively participate in their 
first meeting October 16-18, 2000, beginning at 9 a.m. October 16-17 
and from 8 a.m.-12 noon October 18, at the Loew's L'Enfant Plaza Hotel, 
Ballroom A, Section A, 480 L'Enfant Plaza, SW., Washington, DC.

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 344A, Jamie L. Whitten 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].

Eileen Kennedy,
Deputy Under Secretary, Research, Education, and Economics.
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