[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 6 (Monday, January 11, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Page 1590]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-474]
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Rural Business-Cooperative Service
National Sheep Industry Improvement Center; Notice of Annual
Board of Directors Meeting
AGENCY: Rural Business-Cooperative Service, USDA.
ACTION: Notice of annual board meeting.
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SUMMARY: The Board of Directors of the National Sheep Industry
Improvement Center announces that it will hold its annual Board of
Directors meeting. The meeting will be held over 2 days in the
Washington, DC area.
DATES: The meeting dates are:
1. Februrary 17, 1999, 7:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m., Arlington, VA.
2. February 18, 1999, 8:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., Washington, DC.
ADDRESSES: The meeting locations are:
1. Arlington, VA--Holiday Inn Westpark, 1900 N. Ft. Meyer Drive,
Arlington, VA, Board Room conference room.
2. Washington, DC--USDA South Building, 1400 Independence Avenue,
SW, Washington, DC, Room 3107.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Thomas Stafford, Director, Cooperative
Marketing Division, Cooperative Services, RBS, USDA, Stop 3252, Room
4204, 1400 Independence Ave., SW., Washington, DC 20250-3252, telephone
(202) 690-0368. (This is not a toll free number.) E-mail:
thomas.stafford@usda.gov. The Federal Information Relay service on 1-
800-877-8339 may be used by TDD users.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The February board meeting will serve as the
National Sheep Industry Improvement Center's annual meeting. Specific
meeting rooms are subject to last minute changes.
Background
The sheep and goat industries, the 1996 Farm Bill established the
National Sheep Industry Improvement Center to assist and strengthen the
U.S. sheep and goat industries through projects and assistance financed
through the Center's revolving fund. The Center is managed by a nine
member, non-compensated board. The Board of Directors may use the
monies in the fund to make grants, and intermediate and long-term
loans, contracts, cooperative repayable agreements, or cooperative
agreements in accordance with an annual strategic plan submitted to the
Secretary of Agriculture.
Purposes of the Center
The purposes of the Center are to:
(1) Promote strategic development activities and collaborative
efforts by private and State entities to maximize the impact of Federal
assistance to strengthen and enhance production and marketing of sheep
or goat products in the United States;
(2) Optimize the use of available human capital and resources
within the sheep or goat industries;
(3) Provide assistance to meet the needs of the sheep or goat
industry for infrastructure development, business development,
production, resource development, and market and environmental
research;
(4) Advance activities that empower and build the capacity of the
United States sheep or goat industry to design unique responses to the
special needs of the sheep or goat industries on both a regional and
national basis; and
(5) Adopt flexible and innovative approaches to solving the long-
term needs of the United States sheep and goat industries.
Board Meetings
Board meetings are open to the public.
Authority: 7 USC 2008j, Pub.L. 104-130.
Dated: December 16, 1998.
Dayton J. Watkins,
Administrator, Rural Business-Cooperative Service.
[FR Doc. 99-474 Filed 1-8-99; 8:45 am]
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