By A.D. 2000, Texas code will require some level of accreditation. Plans call for a field trial to train accreditation reviewers once the manual is completed. Funds for ARC trial review procedures are not in the current budget for 1993-94. Mark Denton suggested that the members should wait until the Spring Meeting to see if the manual is ready before adding to the budget. Lodging will be accommodated in two separate hotels with a shuttle service.
Tentative plans call for about four concurrent sessions over three and one-half days.
An estimated 500 people may be present for the event. The Plains Conference typically runs from an early bird party on Wednesday night, papers on Thursday through Saturday, a geomorphological field trip on Saturday and possibly Sunday, with a banquet on Friday night. Profits from the Plains Conference, if any, goes to the Plains Anthropological Society to help defray costs of the publication of the Plains Journal. Similarly, any profits from the TAS meetings goes to the local society. Elton Prewitt indicated that past discussions presented the issue as an expected cost, not a loan, and further, he wondered if the growing funds from the CTA unused savings account could be advanced this year against the 1994-1995 CTA budget.