Meetings: Klamath River Basin Fisheries Task Force,

[Federal Register: February 4, 1998 (Volume 63, Number 23)]

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Fish and Wildlife Service

Notice of Meeting

AGENCY: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Interior.

SUMMARY: Pursuant to section 10(a)(2) of the Federal Advisory Committee Act (5 U.S.C. App. I), this notice announces a meeting of the Klamath River Basin Fisheries Task Force, established under the authority of the Klamath River Basin Fishery Resources Restoration Act (16 U.S.C. 460ss et seq.). The meeting is open to the public.

DATES: The Klamath River Basin Fisheries Task Force (TF) will meet from 1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. on Wednesday, February 18, 1998, from 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. on Thursday, February 19, 1998, and from 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. on Friday, February 20, 1998.

PLACE: The meeting will be held at the Brookings Inn, Highway 101, Brookings, Oregon 97415.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dr. Ronald A. Iverson, Project Leader, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, P.O. Box 1006 (1215 South Main), Yreka, California 96097-1006, telephone (530) 842-5763.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The principal agenda items at this meeting will be: (1) a decision on whether or how to proceed with the Upper Basin Amendment and assignments; (2) a status report on the 1998 annual operations plan and EIS for the Bureau of Reclamation Klamath Project; (3) an update on subbasin planning; (4) a decision on a process to amend the Task Force Long Range Plan for the Klamath River Basin Conservation Area Fishery Restoration Program; (5) the development of a strategy to pursue additional funding; (6) a decision on FY99 budget recommendations and the annual Request for Proposals; and (7) a report on scoping of the Klamath River Basin Instream Flow Incremental Methodology (IFIM) flow study.

For background information on the TF, please refer to the notice of their initial meeting that appeared in the Federal Register on July 8, 1987 (52 FR 25639).

Dated: January 28, 1998. Thomas J. Dwyer, Acting Regional Director.

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