[Federal Register Volume 68, Number 58 (Wednesday, March 26, 2003)]
[Notices]
[Pages 14696-14697]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 03-7125]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Minerals Management Service


Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) Scientific Committee of the 
Minerals Management Advisory Board; Announcement of Plenary Session

AGENCY: Minerals Management Service, Interior.

ACTION: Notice of meeting.

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SUMMARY: The Minerals Management Advisory Board OCS Scientific 
Committee will meet at the Hilton Anchorage Hotel in Anchorage, Alaska.

DATES: Tuesday, April 22, 2003, from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m., Wednesday, 
April 23, from 7:45 a.m. to 3:15 p.m., and Thursday, April 24, from 
8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.

ADDRESSES: Hilton Anchorage Hotel, 500 West Third Avenue, Anchorage, 
Alaska 99501, telephone (907) 272-7411.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: A copy of the agenda may be requested 
from MMS by calling Ms. Carolyn Beamer at (703) 787-1211. Other 
inquiries concerning the OCS Scientific Committee meeting should be 
addressed to Dr. James Kendall, Executive Secretary to the OCS 
Scientific Committee, Minerals Management Service, 381 Elden Street, 
Mail Stop 4043, Herndon, Virginia 20170-4817 or by calling (703) 787-
1656.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The OCS Scientific Committee is an outside 
group of non-Federal scientists which advises the Director, MMS, on the 
feasibility, appropriateness, and scientific merit of the MMS OCS 
Environmental Studies Program as it relates to information needed for 
informed OCS decisionmaking.
    The Committee will meet in plenary session on Tuesday, April 22. 
Presentations will be made by the Deputy Associate Director for 
Offshore Minerals Management and the Director,

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Coastal Marine Institute, University of Alaska Fairbanks. Other 
presentations and discussions will focus on the draft recommendations 
of the U.S. Commission on Ocean Policy, a report from the OCS Policy 
Committee, and updates on the OCS Scientific Committee's Mercury 
Subcommittee and Sand and Gravel Subcommittee. The remainder of the day 
will focus on presentations by the MMS OCS Regional Offices on their 
research priorities and information needs in the context of regional 
decisionmaking.
    On Wednesday, April 23, the Committee will meet in discipline 
breakout sessions (i.e., physical oceanography, biology, and 
socioeconomics) to review the specific research plans of the regional 
offices for Fiscal Years 2004 and 2005.
    On Thursday, April 24, the Committee will meet in plenary session 
for presentations from the Alaska OCS Region's Information Transfer 
Meeting held March 10-12, 2003, and for reports of the discipline 
breakout sessions of the previous day. In the afternoon, the plenary 
session will continue with Committee Business.
    The meetings are open to the public. Approximately 30 visitors can 
be accommodated on a first-come-first-served basis at the plenary 
session.

    Authority: Federal Advisory Committee Act, Pub. L. 92-463, 5 
U.S.C., Appendix I, and the Office of Management and Budget's 
Circular A-63, Revised.

    Dated: March 20, 2003.
Thomas A. Readinger,
Associate Director for Offshore Minerals Management.
[FR Doc. 03-7125 Filed 3-25-03; 8:45 am]
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