[Federal Register: February 9, 1999 (Volume 64, Number 26)]
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

Forest Service

 
Committee of Scientists Meeting

AGENCY: Forest Service, USDA.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The Committee of Scientists will hold a public teleconference 
call on Tuesday, February 23, 1999. The teleconference call will begin 
at 11:00 a.m. and end at 2:00 p.m. (eastern standard time). The purpose 
of the telephone conference call is for the Committee of Scientists to 
continue discussion of its report and recommendations to the Secretary 
of Agriculture and the Chief of the Forest

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Service. The public is invited to attend this teleconference call and 
may be provided an opportunity to comment on the Committee of 
Scientists' deliberations during the teleconference, only at the 
request of the Committee.

DATES: The teleconference call will be held on Tuesday, February 23, 
1999, from 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. (eastern standard time).

ADDRESSES: The teleconference will be held at the USDA Forest Service 
headquarters, Sidney R. Yates Federal Building, 201 14th Street, S.W., 
Washington, D.C., in the Greely Conference Room (5th floor--SW Wing) 
and at all Regional Offices of the Forest Service, which are listed in 
the table under Supplementary Information.
    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 Committee may be accessed via the Internet at 
www.cof.orst.edu./org/scicomm/.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For additional information concerning 
the teleconference, contact Bob Cunningham, Designated Federal Official 
to the Committee of Scientists, by telephone (202) 205-1523.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The public may attend the teleconference at 
the following field locations:


                                  USDA Forest Service Regional Office Locations
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Region 1: Northern Region.....  Federal Building, 200 E Broadway...................  Missoula, MT.
Region 2: Rocky Mountain        740 Simms St.......................................  Golden, CO.
 Region.
Region 3: Southwestern Region.  Federal Building, 517 Gold Ave., SW................  Albuquerque, NM.
Region 4: Intermountain Region  Federal Building, 324 25th St......................  Ogden, UT.
Region 5: Pacific Southwest     630 Sansome St.....................................  San Francisco, CA.
 Region.
Region 6: Pacific Northwest     333 SW 1st Ave.....................................  Portland, OR.
 Region.
Region 8: Southern Region.....  1720 Peachtree Rd. NW..............................  Atlanta, GA.
Region 9: Eastern Region......  310 W. Wisconsin Ave., Room 500....................  Milwaukee, WI.
Region 10: Alaska Region        Federal Office Building, 709 W. 9th St.............  Juneau, AK.
 (office will open early).
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    The Committee of Scientists was 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: February 3, 1999.
Gloria Manning,
Acting Deputy Chief for National Forest System.
[FR Doc. 99-3104 Filed 2-8-99; 8:45 am]
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