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build, maintain, and disseminate

framework data resources.

Outcomes of these projects will

include information that will provide

guidance on policies and practices for

the establishment of operational

framework sites. The projects will also

act as examples of applied framework

for other implementers and as starting

points for future framework research

and development.

The deliverable will be a report from

the project site describing the successes

and failures in implementing the

framework concept; alternatives that

were developed; descriptions of

institutional and technical practices;

evaluations of user satisfaction; and

suggestions for future efforts.

Authority for this program is

contained in the 1996 Congressional Act

entitled ‘‘Omnibus Consolidated

Rescissions and Appropriation Act of

1996’’ that furnishes the appropriation

for the Department of the Interior as

well as other agencies. Applications

may be submitted by State and local

government agencies, educational

institutions, private firms, private

foundations, and Federally

acknowledged or state-recognized

Native American tribes or groups. Each

project must involve two or more

organizations.

DATES: The program announcement and

application forms are expected to be

available on or about May 29, 1996.

Applications must be received on or

before June 28, 1996.

ADDRESSES: Copies of Program

Announcement 1434–HQ–96–PA–00003

may be obtained by writing to Patrick N.

Robertson, U.S. Geological Survey.

Office of Acquisition and Federal

Assistance, Mail Stop 205A, 12201

Sunrise Valley Drive, Reston, Virginia

22092, facsimile telephone number

(703) 648–7901.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Patrick N. Robertson, U.S. Geological

Survey, Office of Acquisition and

Federal Assistance, Mail Stop 205A,

12201 Sunrise Valley Drive, Reston,

Virginia 22092, voice telephone number

(703) 648–7368, facsimile telephone

number (703) 648–7901.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Applications of digital geospatial data

vary greatly, but users have a recurring

need for a few common themes of data.

The framework concept outlined in the

report ‘‘Development of a National

Digital Geospatial Data Framework’’

(April, 1995) proposes a means by

which the geospatial data community

can work together to produce and

maintain commonly needed data for

national, regional, state, and local

analyses. The report and additional

information about the framework are

available from the FGDC Secretariat.

The materials can be retrieved from the

committee’s World Wide Web page at

http://www.fgdc.gov, or by contacting

the committee by mail at the U.S.

Geological Survey, 590 National Center,

Reston, Virginia 22092; by Internet at

gdc@usgs.gov; by facsimile at (703) 648–

5755; or by voice telephone at (703)

648–5514. There will be up to 4 awards

each not exceeding $125,000. The

awards will be cooperative agreements

and not contracts.

Within the geospatial data

community, multi-agency, and multisector partnerships are being established

in local and regional areas to

collaboratively leverage resources and

funding, and coordinate data collection,

utilization, and access. The framework

concept builds on these activities by

identifying a basic information content,

and the technical, operational, and

business contexts by which a

distributed, collaborative data collection

and maintenance effort for the

framework would operate. The

information content proposed for

framework consists of geodetic control,

digital orthoimagery, elevation,

transportation, hydrography,

governmental units, and cadastral data

categories.

While the framework concept has

been well received by the geospatial

data community, questions remain as to

its practical implementation, and the

modifications in approach that will be

necessary as the concept is tested. This

program is a means by which the FGDC

facilitates, and provides resources, for

the development and implementation of

the NSDI Framework concept.

This program will fund the

development and testing of institutions

and technology needed for framework

operations. Proposals should be from

multiple parties in geographic areas that

have data to share for at least a subset

of the framework data content. Project

activities may include establishment of

the following institutional roles:

evaluating, developing and

implementing technical standards;

coordinating data creation,

maintenance, and dissemination for a

geographic area; ensuring updates of

framework data from local data

contributions; developing data quality

certification policies; and ensuring data

integration among themes, and

geographic areas. Technical

development and applications may

include the following: permanent

feature-based identification; the support

of multiple resolution data; mechanisms

for maintaining the users’ data

investment when updating their data

holding from the framework; processes

for gathering and evaluating user

satisfaction to the framework; and the

evaluation of methods for implementing

metadata (including data quality

information) required for the framework

data.

Dated: May 3, 1996.

Richard E. Witmer,

Acting Chief, National Mapping Division.

[FR Doc. 96–12015 Filed 5–13–96; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 4310–31–M

Bureau of Land Management

[OR–130–1020–00; GP6–0154]

Notice of Meeting of the Eastern

Washington Resource Advisory

Council

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management,

Spokane District.

ACTION: Meeting of the Eastern

Washington Resource Advisory Council;

June 13 and 14, 1996, in Odessa,

Washington, and Spokane, Washington.

SUMMARY: The Eastern Washington

Resource Advisory Council will meet at

10:00 a.m., June 13, 1996 at the Odessa

Community Center, 21 East First

Avenue, Odessa, Washington 98823 for

the purpose of a field trip to Bureau of

Land Management public lands in the

local area. If weather is inclement or if

the Council wishes, the field trip may be

canceled and the council will meet at

the Odessa Community Center to

discuss rangeland issues. The meeting

and/or field trip will recess at

approximately 4:00 p.m. on June 13,

1996 or upon completion of business.

The meeting will reconvene at 9:00 a.m.,

June 14, 1996, at Cavanaughs Inn at the

Park, 303 West North River Drive,

Ballroom ‘‘D’’, Spokane, Washington

99201, 509–326–8000. Public comments

will be received from 10:00 a.m. to

10:30 a.m., on June 14, 1996.

At an appropriate time, on June 14,

1996, the meeting will adjourn for

approximately one hour for lunch. The

meeting will conclude at 4:00 p.m. or

upon conclusion of business. The topics

to be discussed are Standards for

Rangeland Health and Livestock Grazing

Guidelines, and the Interior Columbia

Basin Ecosystem Management Project.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Richard Hubbard, Bureau of Land

Management, Spokane District Office,

1103 N. Fancher Road, Spokane,

Washington 99212; or call 509–536–

1200.
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Dated: May 9, 1996.

Joseph K. Buesing,

District Manager.

[FR Doc. 96–12149 Filed 5–13–96; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 4310–33–P

[OR–130–1020–00; GP6–0161]

Notice of Meeting of the Interior

Columbia Basin Ecosystem

Management Plan Subgroup of the

Eastern Washington Resource

Advisory Council

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management,

Spokane District, Interior.

ACTION: Meeting of the Interior

Columbia Basin Ecosystem Management

Plan Subgroup of the Eastern

Washington Resource Advisory Council;

June 12, 1996, in Spokane, Washington.

SUMMARY: A meeting of the Interior

Columbia Basin Ecosystem Management

Plan Subgroup of the Eastern

Washington Resource Advisory Council

will be held on June 12, 1996. The

meeting will convene at 9:00 a.m., at the

Bureau of Land Management, Spokane

District Office, 1103 N. Fancher Road,

Spokane, Washington, 99212–1275. The

meeting will adjourn at approximately

4:00 p.m. or upon completion of

business. At an appropriate time, the

meeting will recess for approximately

one hour for lunch. Public comments

will be received from 10:00 a.m. to

10:30 a.m. The purpose of the meeting

is to familiarize the Subgroup with the

progress and status of the overall

Interior Columbia Basin Ecosystem

Management Plan effort.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Richard Hubbard, Bureau of Land

Management, Spokane District Office,

1103 N. Fancher Road, Spokane,

Washington, 99212; or call 509–536–

1200.

Dated May 9, 1996.

Joseph K. Buesing,

District Manager.

[FR Doc. 96–12150 Filed 5–14–96; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 4310–33–P

CA–058–1020–00

Notice of Resource Advisory Council

Meeting

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management.

ACTION: Notice of meeting.

SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given that

the next meeting of the of the Ukiah

Resource Advisory Council will be held

on Thursday, May 30, and Friday, May

31, 1996 in Ukiah, California.

DATES: The meeting is scheduled for

Thursday, May 30 and Friday, May 31,

1996.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The

meeting on Thursday will begin at 10:00

a.m. at the Clear Lake Resource Area

Office conference room, 2550 North

State Street, Ukiah, CA. It will begin

with a four hour training session on the

basics of rangeland health. The

remainder of Thursday will be spent in

a tour of the Scotts Creek Allotment in

Lake County. Friday, May 31 will be

spent on finalizing standards and

guidelines for rangeland health for

public lands administered by the

Bureau of Land Management in

northwestern California.

The meeting is open to the public

with a public comment period

scheduled for 1:00–2:00 p.m., Friday,

May 31. Depending on the number of

persons wishing to speak, a time limit

may be imposed. Summary minutes of

the meeting will be maintained at the

Arcata, Clear Lake and Redding

Resource Area Offices.

FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT: Renee

Snyder, Bureau of Land Management,

Clear Lake Resource Area, 2550 N. State

St., Ukiah, CA 95482, 707–468–4000.

Valerie Parker,

Acting Clear Lake Resource Area Manager.

[FR Doc. 96–12024 Filed 5–13–96; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 4310–40–P

[CA–010–1430–01; CACA 7620, CACAAA

160028]

Public Land Order No. 7196; Partial

Revocation of Secretarial Orders Dated

October 11, 1902, and April 22, 1922;

California

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management,

Interior.

ACTION: Public land order.

SUMMARY: This order revokes a

Secretarial Order insofar as it affects 10

acres of lands withdrawn for Power Site

Classification No. 28, and another

Secretarial Order insofar as it affects 640

acres of lands withdrawn for the

purpose of determining the suitability of

including those lands in a forest reserve.

The lands are no longer needed for these

purposes, and the revocation is

necessary to permit completion of a

land exchange under Section 206 of the

Federal Land Policy and Management

Act of 1976. The lands are temporarily

segregated by a pending land exchange

and will not be opened at this time. The

lands have been and will remain open

to mineral leasing. Both the Federal

Energy Regulatory Commission and the

Forest Service have concurred with this

revocation.

EFFECTIVE DATE: May 14, 1996.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Duane Marti, BLM California State

Office (CA–931.4), 2800 Cottage Way,

Sacramento, CA 95825, 916–979–2858.

By virtue of the authority vested in

the Secretary of the Interior by Section

204 of the Federal Land Policy and

Management Act of 1976, 43 U.S.C.

1714 (1988), it is ordered as follows:

1. The Secretarial Order dated April

22, 1922, which withdrew public lands

for Power Site Classification No. 28, is

hereby revoked insofar as it affects the

following described land:

Mount Diablo Meridian

T. 23 N., R. 3 E.,

Sec. 14, SE1⁄4SW1⁄4NW1⁄4.

The area described contains 10 acres in

Butte County.

2. The Secretarial Order dated

October 11, 1902, which withdrew

public lands for the purpose of

determining the suitability of including

those lands in a forest reserve, is hereby

revoked insofar as it affects the

following described land:

Mount Diablo Meridian

T. 44 N., R. 4 W.,

Sec. 26.

The area described contains 640 acres in

Siskiyou County.

3. The lands described in paragraphs

1 and 2 are temporarily segregated by a

pending land exchange and will not be

opened by this order.

4. In regards to the land described in

paragraph 1, the State of California has

waived its right of selection in

accordance with the provisions of

Section 24 of the Act of June 10, 1920,

as amended, 16 U.S.C. 818 (1988).

Dated: April 30, 1996.

Bob Armstrong,

Assistant Secretary of the Interior.

[FR Doc. 96–12016 Filed 5–13–96; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 4310–40–P

[AK–050–06–1430–01; AA–77919]

Recreation and Public Purposes

(R&PP) Act Classification in Slana, AK

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management,

Interior.

ACTION: Notice of realty action;

Recreation and Public Purposes (R&PP)

Act classification.

SUMMARY: Pending concurrence from the

State of Alaska, pursuant to Sec. 906(k)

of the Alaska National Interest Lands

Conservation Act, the following public

lands in Slana, Alaska have been