[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 26 (Tuesday, February 9, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Pages 6301-6302]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-3104]
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Forest Service
Committee of Scientists Meeting
AGENCY: Forest Service, USDA.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: The Committee of Scientists will hold a public teleconference
call on Tuesday, February 23, 1999. The teleconference call will begin
at 11:00 a.m. and end at 2:00 p.m. (eastern standard time). The purpose
of the telephone conference call is for the Committee of Scientists to
continue discussion of its report and recommendations to the Secretary
of Agriculture and the Chief of the Forest
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Service. The public is invited to attend this teleconference call and
may be provided an opportunity to comment on the Committee of
Scientists' deliberations during the teleconference, only at the
request of the Committee.
DATES: The teleconference call will be held on Tuesday, February 23,
1999, from 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. (eastern standard time).
ADDRESSES: The teleconference will be held at the USDA Forest Service
headquarters, Sidney R. Yates Federal Building, 201 14th Street, S.W.,
Washington, D.C., in the Greely Conference Room (5th floor--SW Wing)
and at all Regional Offices of the Forest Service, which are listed in
the table under Supplementary Information.
Written comments on improving land and resource management planning
may be sent to the Committee of Scientists, P.O. Box 2140, Corvallis,
OR 97339. Also, the Committee may be accessed via the Internet at
www.cof.orst.edu./org/scicomm/.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For additional information concerning
the teleconference, contact Bob Cunningham, Designated Federal Official
to the Committee of Scientists, by telephone (202) 205-1523.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The public may attend the teleconference at
the following field locations:
USDA Forest Service Regional Office Locations
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Region 1: Northern Region..... Federal Building, 200 E Broadway................... Missoula, MT.
Region 2: Rocky Mountain 740 Simms St....................................... Golden, CO.
Region.
Region 3: Southwestern Region. Federal Building, 517 Gold Ave., SW................ Albuquerque, NM.
Region 4: Intermountain Region Federal Building, 324 25th St...................... Ogden, UT.
Region 5: Pacific Southwest 630 Sansome St..................................... San Francisco, CA.
Region.
Region 6: Pacific Northwest 333 SW 1st Ave..................................... Portland, OR.
Region.
Region 8: Southern Region..... 1720 Peachtree Rd. NW.............................. Atlanta, GA.
Region 9: Eastern Region...... 310 W. Wisconsin Ave., Room 500.................... Milwaukee, WI.
Region 10: Alaska Region Federal Office Building, 709 W. 9th St............. Juneau, AK.
(office will open early).
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The Committee of Scientists was 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 names of the appointed Committee
members was published December 16, 1997 (62 FR 65795.
Dated: February 3, 1999.
Gloria Manning,
Acting Deputy Chief for National Forest System.
[FR Doc. 99-3104 Filed 2-8-99; 8:45 am]
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