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and have included the development of

groundwater sources and production

well fields and the construction of water

treatment facilities and water

distribution networks. The counties in

Minnesota affected by this proposal

include Yellow Medicine, Lincoln, and

Lyon Counties and Deuel County in

South Dakota.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For

further information please contact Mark

S. Plank, USDA, Rural Utilities Service,

Engineering and Environmental Staff,

1400 Independence Avenue, Stop 1571,

Washington, DC 20250, telephone (202)

720–1649, fax (202) 720–0820, or e-mail:

mplank@rus.usda.gov or Jim Maras,

RUS Program Director, USDA, Rural

Development, 410 AgriBank Building,

375 Jackson Street, St. Paul, MN, 55101–

1853, telephone (612) 290–3842 or email: jmaras@rdasun2.rurdev.usda.gov.

A copy of the Draft EIS or an

Executive Summary can be obtained

over the Internet at http://

www.usda.gov/rus/water/ees/

environ.htm. The files are in a portable

document format (pdf); in order to

review or print the document, users

need to obtain a free copy of Acrobat

Reader. The Acrobat Reader can be

obtained from http://www.adobe.com/

prodindex/acrobat/readstep.html

Dated: June 19, 1998.

Gary J. Morgan,

Director, Engineering and Environmental

Staff.

[FR Doc. 98–16793 Filed 6–23–98; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 3410–15–P

COMMISSION ON CIVIL RIGHTS

Agenda and Notice of Public Meeting

of the Maine Advisory Committee

Notice is hereby given, pursuant to

the provisions of the rules and

regulations of the U.S. Commission on

Civil Rights, that a meeting of the Maine

Advisory Committee to the U.S.

Commission on Civil Rights will

convene at 9 a.m. and adjourn at 12:30

p.m. on July 10, 1998, at the Fleet Bank

Building, Conference Room, 21 Armory

Street, Augusta, Maine 02208. The

purpose of the meeting is to plan for

future events and to review a draft of the

Committee’s report, ‘‘Limited English

Proficient Students in Maine: An

Assessment of Equal Educational

Opportunities.’’

Persons desiring additional

information, or planning a presentation

to the Committee, should contact KiTaek Chun, Director of the Eastern

Regional Office, 202–376–7533 (TDD

202–376–8116). Hearing-impaired

persons who will attend the meeting

and require the services of a sign

language interpreter should contact the

Regional Office at least five (5) working

days before the scheduled date of the

meeting.

The meeting will be conducted

pursuant to the provisions of the rules

and regulations of the Commission.

Dated at Washington, DC, June 15, 1998.

Carol-Lee Hurley,

Chief, Regional Programs Coordination Unit.

[FR Doc. 98–16755 Filed 6–23–98; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 6335–01–P

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Bureau of Export Administration

Transportation and Related Equipment

Technical Advisory Committee; Notice

of Closed Meeting

A meeting of the Transportation and

Related Equipment Technical Advisory

Committee will be held July 9, 1998,

9:00 a.m., in the Herbert C. Hoover

Building, Room 1617M–2, 14th Street

between Pennsylvania and Constitution

Avenues, NW, Washington, DC. The

Committee advises the Office of the

Assistant Secretary for Export

Administration with respect to technical

questions that affect the level of export

controls applicable to transportation

and related equipment or technology.

The Committee will meet only in

Executive Session to discuss matters

properly classified under Executive

Order 12958, dealing with the U.S.

export control program and strategic

criteria related thereto.

The Assistant Secretary for

Administration, with the concurrence of

the delegate of the General Counsel,

formally determined on December 16,

1996, pursuant to Section 10(d) of the

Federal Advisory Committee Act, as

amended, that the series of meetings or

portions of meetings of the Committee

and of any Subcommittees thereof,

dealing with the classified materials

listed in 5 U.S.C. 552b(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 the 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 further information, call (202)

482–2583.

Dated: June 18, 1998.

Lee Ann Carpenter,

Director, Technical Advisory Committee Unit.

[FR Doc. 98–16702 Filed 6–23–98; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 3510–33–M

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

International Buyer Program; Support

for Domestic Trade Shows

AGENCY: International Trade

Administration, Commerce.

ACTION: Notice and Call for Applications

for the FY 2000 International Buyer

Program (October 1, 1999 through

September 30, 2000).

SUMMARY: This notice sets forth

objectives, procedures and application

review criteria associated with the U.S.

Department of Commerce’s International

Buyer Program (IBP), to support

domestic trade shows. Selection is for

the International Buyer Program for

Fiscal Year 2000.

The International Buyer Program was

established to bring international buyers

together with U.S. firms by promoting

leading U.S. trade shows in industries

with high export potential. The

International Buyer Program emphasizes

cooperation between the U.S.

Department of Commerce (DOC) and

trade show organizers to benefit U.S.

firms exhibiting at selected events and

provides practical, hands-on assistance

such as export counseling and market

analysis to U.S. companies interested in

exporting. The assistance provided to

show organizers includes worldwide

overseas promotion of selected shows to

potential international buyers, endusers, representatives and distributors.

The worldwide promotion is executed

through the offices of the United States

and Foreign Commercial Service

(hereinafter referred to as the

Commercial Service) in 70 countries

representing America’s major trading

partners, and also in U.S. Embassies in

countries where the Commercial Service

does not maintain offices. The

Department expects to select

approximately 24 shows for FY2000

from among applicants to the program.

Shows selected for the International

Buyer Program will provide a venue for

U.S. companies interested in expanding

their sales into international markets.

Successful applicants will be required

to enter into a Memorandum of

Understanding (MOU) that sets forth the

specific actions to be performed by the

show organizer and the DOC. The MOU

constitutes an agreement between the