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practices on cropland, pastureland,

woodland, and wildlife land.

DATES: Comments will be received on or

before November 29, 2000.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Inquire in writing to M. Denise Doetzer,

State Conservationist, Natural Resources

Conservation Service (NRCS), 1606

Santa Rosa Road, Suite 209, Richmond,

Virginia 23229–5014; Telephone

number (804) 287–1665; Fax number

(804) 287–1738. Copies of the practice

standards will be made available upon

written request to the address shown

above or on the Virginia NRCS web site.

http://www.va.nrcs.gov/Data Tech Refs/

Standards&Specs/EDITStds/

EditStandards.htm.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Section

343 of the Federal Agriculture

Improvement and Reform Act of 1996

states that revisions made after

enactment of the law to NRCS Field

Office technical guides used to carry out

highly erodible land and wetland

provisions of the law shall be made

available for public review and

comment. For the next 30 days, the

NRCS in Virginia will receive comments

relative to the proposed changes.

Following that period, a determination

will be made by the NRCS in Virginia

regarding disposition of those comments

and a final determination of change will

be made to the subject standards.

Dated: October 19, 2000.

M. Denise Doetzer,

State Conservationist, Natural Resources

Conservation Service, Richmond, Virginia.

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CHEMICAL SAFETY AND HAZARD

INVESTIGATION BOARD

Sunshine Act Meeting

The United States Chemical Safety

and Hazard Investigation Board

announces that it will convene a Public

Meeting beginning at 9:30 a.m. local

time on November 8, 2000, at 2175 K

Street, Second floor (Conference rooms

of the Medical Society of the District of

Columbia) Washington, DC.

Topics will include:

1. Presentation of recommendations

for the CSB investigation into the March

4, 1998, incident at a Sonat Incorporated

crude oil and natural gas production

and separation facility near Pitkin,

Louisiana.

2. Update on the recommendations

resulting from the Board investigation

into an incident at the Morton

International, Inc. Plant in Paterson,

New Jersey on April 8, 1998.

3. Update on the CSB investigation

into the February 23, 1999, fire that

occurred at the fractionator tower in the

50 crude oil processing unit at the Tosco

‘‘Avon’’ refinery in Martinez, California.

4. Update on review of open

investigation files (Independent

Fireworks, Sonat II, Equilon, Concept

Sciences, and Condea Vista).

5. Update on the CSB Hiring Plan

Initiative.

6. Board Initiatives with other Federal

agencies;

7. Discussion of Board documents

(Sonat Investigation Report, CSB fiveyear Strategic Plan, Memoranda of

Understanding with the Agency for

Toxic Substances and Disease Registry,

and GAO Report—Coordination

between various Federal Agencies).

8. CSB budget for FY 2001.

9. CSB Notation memorandums.

10. Update on Board Member

activities.

11. Tentative date for next Board

meeting.

The meeting will be open to the

public. For more information, please

contact the Chemical Safety and Hazard

Investigation Board’s Office of External

Relations, (202) 261–7600, or visit our

website at: www.csb.gov.

Christopher W. Warner,

General Counsel.

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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Bureau of Export Administration

Information Systems Technical

Advisory Committee; Notice of

Partially Closed Meeting

The Information Systems Technical

Advisory Committee (ISTAC) will meet

on November 15 & 16, 2000, 9 a.m., in

the Herbert C. Hoover Building, Room

3884, 14th Street between Pennsylvania

Avenue and Constitution Avenue NW.,

Washington, DC. The ISTAC advises the

Office of the Assistant Secretary for

Export Administration on technical

questions that affect the level of export

controls applicable to information

systems equipment and technology.

November 15

Public Session

1. Update on low-power

microprocessors and industry trends

2. Discussion on Bureau of Export

Administration initiatives

3. Committee planning for 2001

4. Comments or presentations from

the public

November 15 & 16

Closed Session

5. Discussion of matters properly

classified under Executive Order 12958,

dealing with U.S. export control

programs and strategic criteria related

thereto.

A limited number of seats will be

available for the public session.

Reservations are not accepted. To the

extent time permits, members of the

public may present oral statements to

the ISTAC. The public may submit

written statements at any time before or

after the meeting. However, to facilitate

distribution of public presentation

materials to Committee members, the

ISTAC suggests that public presentation

materials or comments be forwarded

before the meeting to the address listed

below: Ms. Lee Ann Carpenter, OSIES/

EA/BXA MS: 3876, U.S. Department of

Commerce, 14th St. & Constitution Ave.,

NW., Washington, DC 20230.

The Assistant Secretary for

Administration, with the concurrence of

the delegate of the General Counsel,

formally determined on September 10,

1999, pursuant to section 10(d) of the

Federal Advisory Committee Act, as

amended, that the series of meetings or

portions of meetings of this Committee

and of any Subcommittees thereof

dealing with the classified materials

listed in 5 U.S.C. 552(c)(1) shall be

exempt from the provisions relating to

public meetings found in section

10(a)(1) and (a)(3), of the Federal

Advisory Committee Act. The remaining

series of meetings or portions thereof

will be open to the public.

A copy of the Notice of Determination

to close meetings or portions of

meetings of this Committee is available

for public inspection and copying in the

Central Reference and Records

Inspection Facility, Room 6020, U.S.

Department of Commerce, Washington,

DC. For more information or copies of

the minutes call Lee Ann Carpenter,

202–484–2583.

Dated: October 24, 2000.

Lee Ann Carpenter,

Committee Liaison Officer.

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