00-25108. Notice of Meeting

AGENCY:

Bureau of Land Management, Lewistown Field Office, Interior.

ACTION:

Notice of meeting.

SUMMARY:

The Central Montana Resource Advisory Council will meet October 17-18, 2000 at the Holiday Inn, In Great Falls, Montana.

The October 17 portion of the meeting will begin at 7:45 am with a field trip to the Greenfields Irrigation District. The council will then have lunch and return to the Holiday Inn. At 1 p.m. there will be a 30-minute public comment period; followed by a welcome and orientation session for new RAC members; field manager updates; a review of funding requests for fiscal year 2001 and CARA legislation; a review of Lewis & Clark Bicentennial plans; and an open discussion among council members. This session will adjourn at 5 p.m.

The October 18 session will begin at 7:45 am with updates concerning sage grouse and sagebrush, prairie dogs, plovers, black-footed ferrets, noxious weeds, cottonwood regeneration and a cooperative ecosystem river study. The council will break for lunch from 12-1 p.m. After lunch the RAC will participate in discussions concerning the Missouri River subgroup, subdivisions, cottonwood regeneration, and river ferry crossing funding projects. These updates will conclude by 3:30 pm. The council will then address administrative details and adjourn by 5 p.m.

DATES:

October 17 and 18, 2000.

LOCATION:

Holiday Inn, Great Falls, Montana.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

David L. Mari, Lewistown Field Manager, Lewistown Field Office, Bureau of land Management, Box 1160, Airport Road, Lewistown, MT.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

The meeting is open to the public and there will be a public comment period as described above 59457.

Dated: September 21, 2000.

B. Gene Miller,

Associate Field Office Manager.