[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 141 (Wednesday, July 23, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Pages 39536-39537]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-19330]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
Greater Yellowstone Interagency Brucellosis Committee
AGENCY: National Park Service, Department of the Interior.
ACTION: Notice of meeting.
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SUMMARY: This notice announces a scheduled meeting of the Greater
Yellowstone Interagency Brucellosis Committee (GYIBC). Notice of this
meeting is voluntary and is provided for the public and other Agency
information.
MEETING DATE AND TIME: August 05-08, 1997. Information/Education and
Technical Subcommittees to meet August 5, 1997, 10:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.,
and August 6, 1997, 8:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. The Executive Committee will
meet August 7, 1997, 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m., and August 8, 1997, 8:30
a.m.-12:00 p.m.
ADDRESSES: Holiday Inn-Westbank, 475 River Parkway, Idaho Falls, Idaho,
(208) 523-8000.
SPECIFIC AGENDA ITEMS INCLUDE: Reports from the Technical and the
Information/Education Subcommittees, findings of the recent Wyoming
station review, discussion on the structure, role, and function of the
recently approved Research Subcommittee, an update on the Yellowstone
National Park/Montana Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) preferred
alternative. The meeting will be open to the public. However,
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facilities and space for accommodating members of the public are
limited, and persons will be accommodated on a first-come-first-served
basis. Any member of the public may address the Executive Committee by
indicating such on the sign-in sheet available at the beginning of the
meeting each day. Minutes of the meeting will be available for public
inspection after Executive Committee approval by contacting the office
of the GYIBC Administrative Assistant at the National Park Service,
Denver, Colorado (address listed below).
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The GYIBC was formed by the governors of
Wyoming, Montana and Idaho, and the Secretaries of Interior and
Agriculture to address the issues surrounding brucellosis in the
Greater Yellowstone Area (GYA). The group's goal is to protect and
sustain the free-ranging elk and bison populations in the GYA and to
protect the public interests and economic viability of the livestock
industry in Idaho, Montana and Wyoming, while planning for the
elimination of brucellosis in the GYA by the year 2010.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Dr. Dan Huff, GYIBC Chairman & Assistant Field Director, Natural
Resources & Sciences, Intermountain Regional Office, National Park
Service, 12795 W. Alameda Parkway, P.O. Box 25287, Denver, Colorado
80225-0287, (303) 969-2651
or
Ms. Dawn Carey, GYIBC Administrative Assistant, Colorado Plateau
Support Office, CPSO-E, National Park Service, 12795 W. Alameda
Parkway, P.O. Box 25287, Denver, Colorado 80225-0287, (303) 987-6649.
Date: July 2, 1997.
Dan Huff,
GYIBC Chairman.
[FR Doc. 97-19330 Filed 7-22-97; 8:45 am]
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