[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 4 (Wednesday, January 7, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Page 778]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-463]
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Forest Service
Committee of Scientists; Meetings Schedule
AGENCY: Forest Service, USDA.
ACTION: Notice of meetings.
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SUMMARY: At its organizational meeting December 19, 1997, in Chicago,
Illinois, the Committee of Scientists agreed on its schedule of
meetings for January and February and developed the agenda for the
January 22-23 meeting, which will be held in Denver, Colorado. The
purpose of the January meeting is for the Committee to discuss planning
issues on the National Forests in the Rocky Mountain Region (Colorado,
Kansas, Nebraska, South Dakota, and eastern Wyoming); to share
information and ideas about Committee members' assignments; to review
the National Forest Management Act and its history; to discuss
scientific principles underlying land and resource management; and to
conduct any other Committee business that may arise. The meeting is
open to public attendance, and on January 22, beginning at 4 p.m.,
citizens may address the Committee to present ideas on how to improve
National Forest System land and resource management planning. Citizens
who wish to speak must register at the meeting before 4 p.m., and each
speaker will be limited to a maximum of 5 minutes. Persons may also
submit written suggestions to the Committee.
DATES: Meetings of the Committee are scheduled for January 22-23, 1998,
in Denver, CO; February 12-13, in Seattle, WA; and February 24-25 in
Atlanta, GA.
ADDRESSES: The January 22-23 meeting will be held at the Hyatt Regency,
1750 Welton Street, Denver, Colorado. On January 22, the meeting will
begin at 9 a.m and end at 7 p.m. On January 23, the meeting will begin
at 8 a.m. and end at 4 p.m.
Facilities for the February meetings have not been booked. Separate
notice of the addresses and times for those meetings will be published
later.
Written comments on improving land and resource management planning
must be sent to the Committee of Scientists, Mail Stop 1104, Forest
Service, USDA, Box 96090, Washington, D.C. 20090-6090.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Bob Cunningham, Designated Federal Official to the Committee of
Scientists, Telephone: 202-205-2494.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Committee of Scientists is chartered to
provide scientific and technical advice to the Secretary of Agriculture
and the Chief of the Forest Service on improvements that can be made to
the National Forest System land and resource management planning
process (62 FR 43691; August 15, 1997). Notice of the members appointed
to the Committee was published December 16, 1997, at 62 FR 65795. When
the agenda and locations for the February meetings are known, the
agency will publish a separate notice in the Federal Register.
Dated: January 5, 1998.
Robert C. Joslin,
Deputy Chief, National Forest Systems.
[FR Doc. 98-463 Filed 1-6-98; 8:45 am]
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