[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 186 (Tuesday, September 24, 1996)]
[Notices]
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From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-24452]
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Office of the Secretary
National Agricultural Research, Extension, Education, and
Economics Advisory Board Membership
The Secretary of Agriculture has established the National
Agricultural Research, Extension, Education, and Economics Advisory
Board pursuant to section 802 of the Federal Agriculture Improvement
and Reform Act of 1996 (Pub. L. 104-127), and has appointed members to
the Advisory Board.
Terms of appointment are from one to three years. Each member will
represent at least one of 30 areas of constituent interest, as
specified in the legislation. The Advisory Board's first meeting is
September 16-18, 1996 in Washington, DC. (Federal Register, Vol. 61,
No. 170, page 45932, Friday, August 30, 1996).
Twenty-nine members selected so far are Frank Busta, St. Paul, MN,
University of Minnesota; Zerle Carpenter, Bryan, TX, Texas A&M
University; Gail Cassell, Birmingham, AL, University of Alabama-
Birmingham; Mary Clutter, Washington, D.C., National Science
Foundation; John Dillard, Leland, MS, self-employed farmer; Dan Dooley,
Visalia, CA, self-employed farmer; Kirk Ferrell, Arlington, VA,
National Pork Producers Council; Hector Garza, Silver Spring, MD,
American Council on Education; David Gipp, Mandan, ND, United Tribes
Technology College; Jerry Don Glover, Muleshoe, TX, Texas Corn
Producers Board; I. Miley Gonzalez, Las Cruces, NM, New Mexico State
University; Victor Lechtenberg, W. LaFayette, IN, Purdue University;
Thomas Lyon, Shawano, WI, Cooperative Resources International; Sam
Minor, Washington, PA, The Springhouse Co.; Janice Nixon, Sterling, CO,
Colorado State University Cooperative Extension; Russ Notar, Wheaton,
MD, National Cooperative Business Association; Ralph Paige, LaGrange,
GA, Federation of Southern Cooperatives; Skee Rasmussen, Belvidere, SD,
self-employed rancher; Richard Ross, Ames, IA, Iowa State University;
Barbara Schneeman, Davis, CA, University of California-Davis; Ann
Sorensen, Oregon IL, American Farmland Trust; Dolores Spikes, Baton
Rouge, LA, Southern University and A&M College System; Joe Stewart,
Battle Creek, MI, Kellogg Co; Barbara Stowe, Manhattan, KS, Kansas
State University; Larry Tombaugh, Cary, NC, North Carolina State
University; Ann Vidaver, Lincoln, NE, University of Nebraska-Lincoln;
Kaye Wachsmuth, Washington, D.C., USDA's Food Safety and Inspection
Service; Ronald Warfield, Gibson City, IL, Illinois Farm Bureau; Steven
Watts, Colfax, WA, The McGregor Co.; and Nancy Wellman, Miami, FL,
Florida International University.
Ex-Officio Members of the Advisory Board are Agriculture Secretary,
Dan Glickman; Acting Under Secretary of Agriculture for Research,
Education, and Economics, Catherine Woteki; Administrator of
Agricultural Research Service, Floyd Horn; Administrator of the
Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service, Bob
Robinson; Administrator of the Economics Research Service, Susan
Offutt; and Administrator of the National Agricultural Statistics
Service, Don Bay. The Executive Director of the Advisory Board is
Deborah Hanfman, who formerly served as the USDA Coordinator to the
President's National Science and Technology Council. Questions should
be directed to the Office of the Advisory Board; Research, Education,
and Economics at (202) 720-3684.
Done at Washington, DC., this 11th day of September 1996.
Catherine E. Woteki,
Acting Under Secretary, Research, Education, and Economics.
[FR Doc. 96-24452 Filed 9-23-96; 8:45 am]
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