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Notices Federal Register

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Vol. 63, No. 92

Wednesday, May 13, 1998

AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT

FOUNDATION

Sunshine Act Meeting; Board of

Directors Meeting

PLACE: ADF Headquarters.

DATE: Monday, 18 May 5:00–7:00 p.m.

and Tuesday, 19 May 9:00–11:00 a.m.

STATUS: Open.

Agenda

Monday, 18 May 1998

5:00–7:00 p.m. Meeting

Tuesday, 19 May 1998

9:00 a.m. Chairman’s Report;

President’s Report; Trade and

Investment Initiative

11:00 a.m. Adjournment

If you have any questions or

comments, please direct them to Paul

Magid, General Counsel, who can be

reached at (202) 673–3916.

William R. Ford,

President.

[FR Doc. 98–12792 Filed 5–8–98; 4:15 pm]

BILLING CODE 6116–01–M

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

Forest Service

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service

Joint Secretarial Order; Pisgah

National Forest, North Carolina and

Blue Ridge Parkway; Joint Order

Transferring Administrative

Jurisdiction of National Forest System

Lands

By virtue of the authority vested in

the Secretary of Agriculture and in the

Secretary of the Interior by the Act of

June 8, 1940, which amended the Act of

June 30, 1936 (16 U.S.C. 460a–1), it is

ordered as follows:

The National Forest System lands

described as portions of Tract V–1,

Parcels 1 and 2 in Section 2–S and

Parcel 1 in Section 2–T of the Blue

Ridge Parkway, which are part of the

Pisgah National Forest located in

Henderson, Buncombe, Haywood and

Transylvania Counties, North Carolina,

are hereby transferred from the

jurisdiction of the Secretary of

Agriculture to the jurisdiction of the

Secretary of the Interior subject to

outstanding rights or interests of record.

Pursuant to the Act of June 8, 1940,

which amended the act of June 30, 1936,

the National Forest lands transferred to

the Department of the Interior shall be

administered as part of the Blue Ridge

Parkway.

A description of the lands to be

transferred and a map are available for

public inspection at the Office of the

Chief, Forest Service, U.S. Department

of Agriculture, Auditors Building, 201

14th Street, S.W., at Independence

Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20250.

Daniel R. Glickman,

Secretary of Agriculture.

Bruce Babbitt,

Secretary of the Interior.

[FR Doc. 98–12697 Filed 5–12–98; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 4310–70–P

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

Forest Service

Committee of Scientists Meeting

AGENCY: Forest Service, USDA.

ACTION: Notice of meeting.

SUMMARY: A meeting of the Committee

of Scientists is scheduled for May 27–

29 in Boulder, Colorado. The purpose of

the meeting is for the committee to

continue to draft its report and

recommendations for the Secretary of

Agriculture and the Chief of the Forest

Service. The meeting is open to the

public.

DATES: A meeting is scheduled for May

27–29 in Boulder, Colorado.

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at

the Holiday Inn, 800 28th Street,

Boulder, Colorado. The meeting will

begin at 9 a.m. and end at 5 p.m. on all

3 days.

Written comments on improving land

and resource management planning may

be sent to the Committee of 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).

Dated: May 6, 1998.

Robert C. Joslin,

Deputy Chief, National Forest System.

[FR Doc. 98–12626 Filed 5–12–98; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 3410–11–M

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

National Oceanic and Atmospheric

Administration

[Docket No. 980427105–8105–01]

RIN 0648–ZA41

Sea Grant Industry Fellows Program

AGENCY: Office of Oceanic and

Atmospheric Research, National

Oceanic and Atmospheric

Administration, Commerce.

ACTION: Notice of request for proposals.

SUMMARY: This notice announces that

proposals may be submitted for a

Fellowship program sponsored by the

National Sea Grant Office (NSGO) to

strengthen ties between academia and

industry and to fulfill its broad

educational responsibilities. With

required matching funds from private

industrial sponsors, Sea Grant expects

to support up to four new Industrial

fellows in 1998. Each fellow will be a

graduate student selected through

national competition, and will be

known as a Company Name/Sea Grant

Industrial Fellow. Proposals must be

submitted by academic institutions who

have identified a graduate fellow and an

industrial sponsor who will provide

matching funds.

DATES: Proposals must be submitted by

June 12, 1998 to the nearest state Sea

Grant College Program.