[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 196 (Thursday, October 9, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Page 52765]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-26795]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Fish and Wildlife Service
Ruffe Control Committee Meeting
AGENCY: Department of the Interior, Fish and Wildlife Service.
ACTION: Notice of meeting.
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SUMMARY: This notice announces a meeting of the Ruffe Control
Committee, a committee of the Aquatic Nuisance Species Task Force. The
purposes of the upcoming meeting are to: (1) Review current information
on ruffe populations; (2) review progress on implementation of the
eight components of the Ruffe Control Program; and (3) review the
status of the Ruffe Control Program and the Committee. Products of the
meeting will be: (1) material for a report to the Aquatic Nuisance
Species Task Force on 1997 activities; and (2) recommendations from the
Committee to the Task Force regarding the future of the Ruffe Control
Program and the Committee. An optional field trip is planned to trawl
for ruffe in Duluth-Superior Harbor.
DATES: The Ruffe Control Committee will meet from 1:00 p.m. to 5:00
p.m. on Wednesday, October 29, 1997, and 8:00 a.m. to 12 Noon on
Thursday, October 30, 1997. The optional field trip will begin at 9:00
a.m., Wednesday, October 29, 1997.
ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at the Days Inn, 110 East Second
Street, Superior, Wisconsin. The optional field trip will leave from
the Days Inn.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Tom Busiahn, Chair, Ruffe Control
Committee, at 715-682-6185, or Bob Peoples, Executive Secretary,
Aquatic Nuisance Species Task Force, at 703-358-2025.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Pursuant to section 10(a)(2) of the Federal
Advisory Committee Act (5 U.S.C. App. I), this notice announces a
meeting of the Ruffe Control Committee, a committee of the Aquatic
Nuisance Species Task Force established under the authority of the
Nonindigenous Aquatic Nuisance Prevention and Control Act of 1990 (16
U.S.C. 4701-4741). Minutes of the meeting will be maintained by the
Executive Secretary, Aquatic Nuisance Species Task Force, Suite 840,
4401 North Fairfax Drive, Arlington, Virginia 22203-1622, and the
Chair, Ruffe Control Committee, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Fishery
Resources Office, 2800 Lake Shore Drive East, Ashland, Wisconsin 54806,
and will be available for public inspection during regular business
hours, Monday through Friday, within 30 days following the meeting.
Dated: October 3, 1997.
Gary Edwards,
Co-Chair, Aquatic Nuisance, Species Task Force Assistant Director--
Fisheries.
[FR Doc. 97-26795 Filed 10-8-97; 8:45 am]
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