[Federal Register Volume 69, Number 35 (Monday, February 23, 2004)]
[Notices]
[Pages 8177-8178]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 04-3764]


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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

National Agricultural Statistics Service


Notice of Appointment to the Advisory Committee on Agriculture 
Statistics

AGENCY: National Agricultural Statistics Service, USDA.

ACTION: Notification of appointment to the Advisory Committee on 
Agriculture Statistics.

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SUMMARY: The Office of the Secretary of Agriculture announces members 
appointed to the Advisory Committee on Agriculture Statistics, in 
accordance with the Federal Advisory Committee Act, 5 U.S.C. App. II.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Carol House, Executive Director, 
Advisory Committee on Agriculture Statistics, U.S. Department of 
Agriculture, National Agricultural Statistics Service, Telephone: 202-
720-4333, Fax: 202-720-9013, or e-mail: [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The appointment for the twenty-five member 
committee, which has representation across seven categories that covers 
a broad range of agricultural disciplines and interests, was signed on 
November 28, 2003. Appointed members, by their associated category are: 
Consumer and Information Organizations--Ross Ronald Racine, Billings, 
MT; James Dennis Rieck, Winfield, IL; Robert W. Spear, Nobleboro, ME. 
Educational Organizations--R. Edmund Gomez, Alcalde, NM; Ling-Jung 
(Kelvin) Koong, Corvallis, OR; Bobby Ray Phills, Tallahassee, FL. Farm 
Services Organizations--Jacklyn M. Folsom, Cabot, VT; John Irving 
Gifford, Rock Island, IL; Jack Charles Mitenbuler, Indianapolis, IN; 
Ranvir Singh, Marysville, CA; Mark Edward Whalon, East Lansing, MI. 
Government Agencies--Robert Dale Epperson, Fresno, CA. National Farm 
Organizations--Carol Ann Gregg, Grove City, PA; Mark W. Jenner, Mt. 
Prospect, IL; Sheila Kay Massey, Animas, NM; Ivan W. Wyatt, Cedar 
Point, KS. Producer and Marketing Organizations--Gary Adams, Cordova, 
TN; Roger M. Cryan, Fairfax, VA; William George Lapp, Omaha, NE.; Lucy 
C. Meyring, Walden, CO.; Ron Olsen, Idaho Falls, ID; Ron Plain, 
Columbia, MO; Ira Silvergleit, Alexandria, VA.

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Professional Organizations--Walter J. Armbruster, Darien, IL; Ronald C. 
Wimberley, Raleigh, NC.
    The duties of the Committee are solely advisory. The Committee will 
make recommendations to the Secretary of Agriculture with regards to 
the agricultural statistics program of the National Agricultural 
Statistics Service (NASS) and such other matters as it may deem 
advisable, or which the Secretary of Agriculture, Under Secretary for 
Research, Education, and Economics, or the Administrator of NASS may 
request. The Advisory Committee meeting will be held on February 17-18, 
2004. All meetings are open to the public. Committee members will be 
reimbursed for official travel expenses only.

    Signed at Washington, DC, February 5, 2004.
R. Ronald Bosecker,
Administrator, National Agricultural Statistics Service.
[FR Doc. 04-3764 Filed 2-20-04; 8:45 am]
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