96-20637. Defense Science Board Task Force on Anti-Personnel Landmine Alternatives, Landmine Detection and Demining, and Unexploded Ordnance (UXO) Clearance Operations

[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 157 (Tuesday, August 13, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Page 42010]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-20637]


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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE

Defense Science Board Task Force on Anti-Personnel Landmine 
Alternatives, Landmine Detection and Demining, and Unexploded Ordnance 
(UXO) Clearance Operations

ACTION: Notice of Advisory Committee meetings.

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SUMMARY: The Defense Science Board Task Force on Anti-Personnel 
Landmine Alternatives, Landmine Detection and Demining, and Unexploded 
Ordnance (UXO) Clearance Operations, Phase I will meet in closed 
session on September 11-12, 1996 at Strategic Analysis, Inc., 
Arlington, Virginia.
    The mission of the Defense Science Board is to advise the Secretary 
of Defense through the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and 
Technology on scientific and technical matters as they affect the 
perceived needs of the Department of Defense. At this meeting the Task 
Force will examine U.S. landmine, landmine detection and demining 
efforts, and alternatives to anti-personnel landmines. It will also 
examine UXO remediation, active range UXO clearance, and explosive 
ordnance disposal (EOD) efforts. It will include in this examination, 
the relationship between the UXO/EOD detection/characterization/
clearance and neutralization issues and landmine detection/
neutralization issues. In accordance with Section 10(d) of the Federal 
Advisory Committee Act, Public Law 92-463, as amended (5 U.S.C. App. 
II, (1994)), it has been determined that this DSB Task Force meeting 
concerns matters listed in 5 U.S.C. 552b(c)(1) (1994), and that 
accordingly this meeting will be closed to the public.

    Dated: August 8, 1996.
L.M. Bynum,
Alternate OSD Federal Register Liaison Officer, Department of Defense.
[FR Doc. 96-20637 Filed 8-12-96; 8:45 am]
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