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Vol. 63, No. 117

Thursday, June 18, 1998

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

Cooperative State Research,

Education, and Extension Service

Research, Education, and Economics;

Notice of the National Agricultural

Research, Extension, Education, and

Economics Advisory Board Executive

Committee Special Meeting

AGENCY: Research, Education, and

Economics, USDA.

ACTION: Notice of special meeting.

SUMMARY: In accordance with the

Federal Advisory Committee Act, 5

U.S.C. App., the United States

Department of Agriculture announces a

Special Meeting of the Executive

Committee of the National Agricultural

Research, Extension, Education, and

Economics Advisory Board.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The

National Agricultural Research,

Extension, Education, and Economics

Advisory Board, which represents 30

constituent categories, as specified in

section 1408 of the National

Agricultural Research, Extension, and

Teaching Policy Act of 1977, as

amended by section 802 of the Federal

Agriculture Improvement and Reform

Act of 1996 (Pub. L. 104–127), will have

a special meeting of the Advisory

Board’s Executive Committee, with

USDA officials to discuss the Advisory

Board’s role under the pending

Agricultural Research, and Education

Reform Act of 1998.

Dates: June 29, 1998, 9:00 a.m.–4:30

p.m.

Place: USDA, Cooperative State

Research Service, Aerospace Building,

Conference Room 824A–B, 901 D Street,

SW., Washington, DC.

Type of Meeting: Open to the public.

Conference room space is limited. The

public is requested to confirm

attendance with the contact person

below. Identification is required upon

entering the USDA facilities.

Comments: The public may also file

written comments before or within 2

weeks after the meeting with the contact

person. All statements will become a

part of the official records of the

National Agricultural Research,

Extension, Education, and Economics

Advisory Board and will be kept on file

for public review in the Office of the

Advisory Board; Research, Education,

and Economics; U.S. Department of

Agriculture; Washington, D.C. 20250–

2255.

For Further Information Contact:

Deborah Hanfman, Executive Director,

National Agricultural Research,

Extension, Education, and Economics

Advisory Board, Research, Education,

and Economics Advisory Board Office,

Room 3918 South Building, U.S.

Department of Agriculture, STOP: 2255,

1400 Independence Avenue, SW.,

Washington, DC 20250–2255.

Telephone: 202–720–3684. Fax: 202–

720–6199, or e-mail: lshea@reeusda.gov.

Done at Washington, D.C. this 9th day of

June 1998.

I. Miley Gonzalez,

Under Secretary, Research, Education, and

Economics.

[FR Doc. 98–16154 Filed 6–17–98; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 3410–22–P

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

Forest Service

Moira Environmental Impact Statement

AGENCY: Forest Service, USDA.

ACTION: Notice of intent to prepare an

Environmental Impact Statement.

SUMMARY: The Department of

Agriculture, Forest Service, will prepare

an Environmental Impact Statement

(EIS) to provide timber for the

Ketchikan Area timber sale program.

The Record of Decision will disclose

how the Forest Service has decided to

provide harvest units, roads, and

associated timber harvesting facilities.

The proposed action is to harvest up to

an estimated 435 million board feet

(mmbf) of timber on an estimated 3,000

acres in several timber sales. A range of

alternatives responsive to significant

issues will be developed and will

include a no-action alternative. The

proposed timber harvest is located

within Tongass Forest Plan Value

Comparison Units 683, 691, 692, 693,

and 694 on Prince of Wales Island,

Alaska, on the Craig Ranger District of

the Ketchikan Area of the Tongass

National Forest.

DATES: Comments concerning the scope

of this project should be received by

July 30, 1998.

ADDRESSES: Please send written

comments to Forest Supervisor’s Office;

Tongass National Forest, Ketchikan

Area; Attn: Moira EIS; Federal Building,

Ketchikan, AK 99901.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Questions about the proposal and EIS

should be directed to Dale Kanen,

District Ranger, Craig Ranger District,

Tongass National Forest, P.O. Box 500,

Craig, AK 99921; telephone (907) 826–

3271 or Norm Matson, Planning

Biologist, Federal Building, Ketchikan,

AK 99901; telephone (907) 228–6273.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Public

participation will be an integral

component of the study process and

will be especially important at several

points during the analysis. The first is

during the scoping process. The Forest

Service will be seeking information,

comments, and assistance from Federal,

State, local agencies, individuals and

organizations that may interested in, or

affected by, the proposed activities. The

scoping process will include: (1)

identification of potential issues; (2)

identification of issues to be analyzed in

depth; and (3) elimination of

insignificant issues or those which have

been covered by a previous

environmental review. Written scoping

comments are being solicited through a

scoping package that will be sent to the

project mailing list. For the Forest

Service to best use the scoping input,

comments should be received by July

30, 1998. Tentative issues identified for

analysis in the EIS include the potential

effects of the project on and the

relationship of the project to:

Subsistence resources, old-growth

ecosystem management and the

maintenance of habitat for viable

populations of wildlife and plant

species, timber supply, scenery and

recreational resources, anadromous and

resident fish habitat, soil and water

resources, wetlands, cultural resources

and others.

Based on results of scoping and the

resource capabilities within the project

area, alternatives including a ‘‘no

action’’ alternative will be developed for

the Draft Environmental Impact