Federal Register / Vol. 62, No. 59 / Thursday, March 27, 1997 / Notices 14699

SUMMARY: The OCS Policy Committee of

the Minerals Management Advisory

Board will meet at the Westfields

Conference Center in Chantilly, Virginia

on April 30–May 1, 1997.

The agenda will cover the following

principal subjects:

—Report from the Subcommittee on

Environmental Information for Select

OCS Areas Under Moratoria

—Report from the Hard Minerals

Subcommittee

—Gulf of Mexico Update: A Broad

Brush Look at Current Activities

—Sharing of Benefits with the States

—Update on the Reauthorization of the

Magnuson Fishery Conservation and

Management Act

—Alaska Update

—New Offshore Development Projects

in Eastern Canada

—Law of the Sea Update

—DOE Update on the U.S. Energy

Policy Given Current Supply/Demand

Picture and Other Policy Issues

—Emerging Issues

The meeting is open to the public.

Upon request, interested parties may

make oral or written presentations to the

OCS Policy Committee. Such requests

should be made no later than April 18,

1997, to the Minerals Management

Service, 381 Elden Street, MS–4001,

Herndon, Virginia 20170, Attention:

Jeryne Bryant.

Requests to make oral statements

should be accompanied by a summary

of the statement to be made. For more

information, call Jeryne Bryant at (703)

787–1211.

Minutes of the OCS Policy Committee

meeting will be available for public

inspection and copying at the Minerals

Management Service in Herndon,

Virginia.

DATES: Wednesday, April 30 and

Thursday, May 1, 1997.

ADDRESSES: The Westfields Conference

Center, 14750 Conference Center Drive,

Chantilly, Virginia 20121—(703) 818–

0300.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Jeryne Bryant at the address and phone

number listed above.

Authority: Federal Advisory Committee

Act, P.L. No. 92–463, 5 U.S.C. Appendix 1,

and the Office of Management and Budget’s

Circular No. A–63, Revised.

Dated: March 21, 1997.

Carolita U. Kallaur,

Associate Director for Offshore Minerals

Management.

[FR Doc. 97–7781 Filed 3–26–97; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 4310–MR–M

Notice on Outer Continental Shelf Gas

and Oil Lease Sales

AGENCY: Minerals Management Service,

Interior.

ACTION: List of Restricted Joint Bidders.

SUMMARY: Pursuant to the authority

vested in the Director of the Minerals

Management Service by the joint

bidding provisions of 30 CFR 256.41,

each entity within one of the following

groups shall be restricted from bidding

with any entity in any other of the

following groups at Outer Continental

Shelf oil and gas lease sales to be held

during the bidding period from May 1,

1997, through October 31, 1997. The

List of Restricted Joint Bidders

published October 17, 1996, in the

Federal Register at 61 FR 54213 covered

the period of November 1, 1996, through

April 30, 1997.

Group I. Exxon Corporation; Exxon

San Joaquin Production Co.

Group II. Shell Oil Co.; Shell Offshore

Inc.; Shell Western E&P Inc.; Shell

Frontier Oil & Gas Inc.; Shell

Consolidated Energy Resources Inc.;

Shell Land & Energy Company; Shell

Onshore Ventures Inc.; CalResources

LLC; Shell Deepwater Development Inc.;

Shell Deepwater Production Inc.; Shell

Offshore Properties and Capital Inc.

Group III. Mobil Oil Corp.; Mobil Oil

Exploration and Producing Southeast

Inc.; Mobil Producing Texas and New

Mexico Inc.; Mobil Exploration and

Producing North America Inc.

Group IV. BP America Inc.; The

Standard Oil Co.; BP Exploration & Oil

Inc.; BP Exploration (Alaska) Inc.

Dated: March 21, 1997.

Robert E. Brown,

Acting Director, Minerals Management

Service.

[FR Doc. 97–7755 Filed 3–26–97; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 4310–MR–M

National Park Service

AGENCY: National Park Service.

ACTION: Extension of comment period,

publication of certain concession

policies and procedures.

SUMMARY: The National Park Service

gave notice in the Federal Register of

February 20, 1997 (Vol. 62, No. 34, Page

7798), that it was publishing for

comment those portions of its staff

manual (NPS–48) which had not been

published for comment previously.

Comments in response to that notice

were due on March 24, 1997. NPS is

hereby extending the public comment

period for an additional 15 days through

April 8, 1997.

COMMENT DUE DATE: April 8, 1997.

ADDRESSES: Comments should be

addressed to Robert Yearout, Program

Manager, Concession Program, National

Park Service, P.O. Box 37127,

Washington, D.C. 20013–7127.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Copies of those sections of NPS–48

which have not been published for

comment previously may be obtained by

contacting Wendelin Mann, Concession

Program, National Park Service (202)

565–1219.

Dated: March 20, 1997.

Robert K. Yearout,

Concession Program Manager.

[FR Doc. 97–7800 Filed 3–26–97; 8:45 am]

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Subsistence Resource Commission

Meeting

SUMMARY: The Superintendent of Denali

National Park and the Chairperson of

the Subsistence Resource Commission

for Denali National Park announce a

forthcoming meeting of the Denali

National Park Subsistence Resource

Commission.

The following agenda items will be

discussed:

(1) Call to order by Chair.

(2) Roll call and confirmation of

quorum.

(3) Superintendent’s welcome and

introductions.

(4) Approval of minutes of last

meeting.

(5) Additions and corrections to

agenda.

(6) Old business:

a. Wildlife studies.

b. NPS Subsistence Issue Paper report.

c. Park planning and North Access

updates.

(7) New business:

a. Federal subsistence proposals.

b. Regional Advisory Councils’

actions.

c. Draft Resources Management Plan.

(8) Public and other agency

comments.

(9) Set time and place of next SRC

meeting.

(10) Adjournment.

DATES: The meeting will be held Friday,

March 28, 1997. The meeting will begin

at 9 a.m. and conclude around 6 p.m.

LOCATION: The meeting will be held at

the North Star Inn’s Conference Room in

Healy, Alaska.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Steve Martin, Superintendent, Denali

National Park and Preserve, PO Box 9,

Denali Park, Alaska 99755. Phone (907)

683–2294.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The

Subsistence Resource Commissions are