[Federal Register: February 2, 1999 (Volume 64, Number 21)]
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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 is changing the date of a public 
teleconference call previously scheduled for February 4, 1999 (64 FR 
3063, January 20, 1999). This telephone conference call will take place 
instead on Tuesday, February 9, beginning at noon (12:00 p.m.) and 
ending at 3:00 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 Service concerning 
improvements to the National Forest System land and resource management 
planning process. The public is invited to attend the teleconference 
call and may be provided an opportunity to comment on the Committee of 
Scientists' deliberations during the teleconference call, only at the 
request of the Committee.

DATES: The teleconference call will be held on Tuesday, February 9, 
from noon (12:00 p.m.) to 3:00 p.m. (eastern standard time).

ADDRESSES: The teleconference call will be held at the USDA Forest 
Service headquarters, Sidney R. Yates Federal Building, 201 14th 
Street, S.W., Washington, D.C., in the Chief's Conference Room on 
February 9. The teleconference call can be accessed 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, or 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   Missoula, MT.
                                 E Broadway.
Region 2, Rocky Mountain        740 Simms St..........  Golden, CO.
 Region.
Region 3, Southwestern Region.  Federal Building, 517   Albuquerque, NM.
                                 Gold Ave., SW.
Region 4, Intermountain Region  Federal Building, 324   Ogden, UT.
                                 25th St.
Region 5, Pacific Southwest     630 Sansome St........  San Francisco,
 Region.                                                 CA.
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.,  Milwaukee, WI.
                                 Room 500.
Region 10, Alaska Region        Federal Office          Juneau, AK.
 (office will open early).       Building, 709 W. 9th
                                 St.
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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: January 27, 1999.
Gloria Manning,
Acting Deputy Chief for National Forest System.
[FR Doc. 99-2386 Filed 2-1-99; 8:45 am]
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