[Federal Register Volume 70, Number 65 (Wednesday, April 6, 2005)]
[Notices]
[Page 17463]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 05-6819]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Minerals Management Service


Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) Scientific Committee (SC); 
Announcement of Plenary Session

AGENCY: Minerals Management Service (MMS), Interior.

ACTION: Notice of meeting.

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SUMMARY: The OCS Scientific Committee will meet at the Embassy Suites 
Dulles-North in Dulles (Sterling), Virginia.

DATES: Wednesday, April 27, 2005, from 8 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.; Thursday, 
April 28, 2005, from 8 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.; and Friday, April 29, 2005, 
8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

ADDRESSES: Embassy Suites Dulles-North/Loudoun, 44610 Waxpool Road, 
Dulles, Virginia 20147, telephone (703) 723-5300.

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 SC meeting should be addressed to Dr. 
James Kendall, Executive Secretary to the OCS SC, Minerals Management 
Service, 381 Elden Street, Mail Stop 4043, Herndon, Virginia 20170-4817 
or by calling (703) 787-1656.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The OCS SC will provide advice on the 
feasibility, appropriateness, and scientific value of the OCS 
Environmental Studies Program to the Secretary of the Interior through 
the Director of the MMS. The SC will review the relevance of the 
research and data being produced to meet MMS scientific information 
needs for decision making and may recommend changes in scope, 
direction, and emphasis.
    The Committee will meet in plenary session on Wednesday, April 27. 
Individual Committee members will report on the January meetings of the 
Gulf of Mexico OCS Region's Information Transfer Meeting and affiliated 
OCS SC's Deepwater Subcommittee, the January and March meetings of the 
OCS SC Arctic Subcommittee meeting, and the OCS SC's observations made 
at the MMS/Environmental Protection Agency Hypoxia meeting conducted 
this past summer. Also on April 27, presentations will be made to the 
OCS SC outlining how archeology studies are useful to MMS information 
needs and how other large environmental programs handle environmental 
data and what options are being used and/or considered for serving 
MMS's database needs. The MMS Director will also address the Committee.
    On Thursday, April 28, the Committee will meet in discipline 
breakout sessions (i.e., biology/ecology, physical sciences, and social 
sciences) to review the specific research plans of the MMS regional 
offices for Fiscal Years 2006 and 2007.
    On Friday, April 29, the Committee will meet in plenary session for 
reports of the individual discipline breakout sessions of the previous 
day and to 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, Public Law 92-463, 5 
U.S.C., Appendix I, and the Office of Management and Budget's 
Circular A-63, Revised.

    Dated: March 31, 2005.
Thomas A. Readinger,
Associate Director for Offshore Minerals Management.
[FR Doc. 05-6819 Filed 4-5-05; 8:45 am]
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