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Federal Register: April 8, 1998 (Volume 63, Number 67)NoticesPage 17147From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]

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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

Forest Service

Committee on Scientists; Meeting

AGENCY: Forest Service, USDA.

ACTION: Notice of meeting.

SUMMARY: A meeting of the Committee on Scientists is scheduled for April 22-23 in Missoula, Montana. The purpose of the meeting is to discuss planning issues on the National Forests in the Northern Region (Montana, Northern Idaho, North Dakota, and Northwestern South Dakota) and the Intermountain Region (Southern Idaho, Nevada, Utah, and Western Wyoming). The Committee will meet with representatives from federal, state, and local organizations to share information and ideas about Committee members assignments, to continue discussions on the scientific principles underlying land and resource management, and to conduct any other Committee business that may arise. The meeting is open to the public. On April 22, beginning at 4 p.m., citizens may address the Committee to present ideas on how to improve National Forest System land and resource management planning. Citizens who wish to speak must register at the meeting before 5 p.m., and each speaker will be limited to a maximum of 5 minutes. Persons may also written suggestions to the Committee.

DATES: A meeting is scheduled for April 22-23 in Missoula, MT.

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at the Elks Lodge, 112 North Pattee Street, Missoula, Montana. On April 22, the meeting will begin at 9 a.m. and end at 7 p.m. On April 23, the meeting will begin at 8 a.m. and end at 4 p.m.

Written comments on improving land and resource management planning may be sent to the Committee on Scientists, P.O. Box 2140, Corvallis, OR 97339 or the Committee may be accessed via the Internet at www.cof.orst.edu./org/scicomm/.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Bob Cunningham, Designated Federal Official to the Committee of Scientists, Telephone: 202-205-2494.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 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 members appointed to the Committee was published December 16, 1997, at 62 FR 65795. Agenda items and locations for future meetings will be published as separate notices in the Federal Register.

Dated: April 2, 1998. Robert C. Joslin, Deputy Chief, National Forest System.

FR Doc. 98-9232Filed4-7-98; 8:45 amBILLING CODE 3410-11-M

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