[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 111 (Wednesday, June 10, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Pages 31715-31716]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-15427]


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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

Forest Service


Committee of Scientists Meetings

AGENCY: Forest Service, USDA.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The Forest Service will host two public teleconference calls 
for the Committee of Scientists to discuss their report and 
recommendations to the Secretary of Agriculture and the Chief of the 
Forest Service. The first teleconference call will be held Wednesday, 
June 17, 1998, from 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. (Eastern Standard Time) and 
the second teleconference call will be held on Wednesday, June 24, also 
from 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. (Eastern Standard Time). The public is 
invited to attend; however, individuals must register for one of the 
teleconference locations in advance by calling the Committee of 
Scientists message phone (541-750-7057). The public may be provided an 
opportunity to commit on the Committee of Scientists' deliberations, 
only at the request of the Committee.

DATES: The teleconference call will be held on Wednesday, June 17, 
1998, and Wednesday, June 24, 1998 from 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. 
(Eastern Standard Time). Registration for the teleconference calls 
should be received by June 15.

ADDRESSES: Written comments on improving land and resource management 
planning may be sent to the Committee of Scientists, P.O. Box 2140, 
Corvallis, OR 97339. Also, the

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Committee may be accessed via the Internet at www.cof.orst.edu./org/
scicomm/. The Supplementary Information section of this notice contains 
the addresses of teleconference call locations.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
For additional information concerning the teleconferences, contact Bob 
Cunningham, Designated Federal Official to the Committee of Scientists, 
at telephone: (703) 306-1032 or via the Internet at <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#fc8e9f89929295929b92bc928f9ad29b938a"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="97e5f4e2f9f9fef9f0f9d7f9e4f1b9f0f8e1">[email protected]</span></a>.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Teleconference call 1 (June 17) will be held 
at the USDA Forest Service, Franklin Court Building, Suite 5500W, 1099 
14th Street, NW, Washington, D.C. and at all Regional Offices of the 
Forest Service. The regional offices include: Region 1, Northern 
Region, Federal Building, 200 E. Broadway, Missoula, MT; Region 2, 
Rocky Mountain Region, 740 Simms Street, Golden, CO; Region 3, 
Southwestern Region, Federal Building, 517 Gold Avenue, SW., 
Albuquerque, NM; Region 4, Intermountain Region, Federal Building, 324 
25th Street, Ogden, UT; Region 5, Pacific Southwest Region, 630 Sansome 
Street, San Francisco, CA; Region 6, Pacific Northwest Region, 333 SW 
1st Avenue Portland, OR; Region 8, Southern Region, 1720 Peachtree Road 
NW., Atlanta, GA; Region 9, Eastern Region, 310 W. Wisconsin Avenue, 
Room 500, Milwaukee, WI; and Region 10, Alaska Region, Federal Office 
Building, 709 W. 9th Street, Juneau, AK. The Alaska Region office will 
be open early for the teleconference.
    Telconference call 2 (June 24) will be held at the USDA Forest 
Service Headquarters, 201 14th Street, S.W., Washington, D.C. in the 
McArdle Conference Room and at all Regional Offices listed previsouly 
in this notice.
    The Committee of Scientists is 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). Notice of the names of the appointed Committee 
members was published December 16, 1997 (62 FR 65795).

    Dated: June 5, 1998.
Gloria Manning,
Associate Deputy Chief National Forest Systems.
[FR Doc. 98-15427 Filed 6-9-98; 8:45 am]
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