New Mexico Resource Advisory Council Meeting

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Land Management

[NM-910-08-1020-00]

New Mexico Resource Advisory Council Meeting

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, Interior.

ACTION: Notice of Council meeting.

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SUMMARY: In accordance with the Federal Land Policy and Management Act

and the Federal Advisory Committee Act of 1972 (FACA), 5 U.S.C.

Appendix 1, The Department of Interior, Bureau of Land Management

(BLM), announces a meeting of the New Mexico Resource Advisory Council

(RAC). The meeting will be held on July, 30 and 31, 1998 at the Holiday

Inn Don Fernando de Taos, 1005 Paseo del Pueblo Sur, Taos, New Mexico.

The agenda for the RAC meeting will include agreement on the meeting

agenda, any RAC comments on the draft summary minutes of the last RAC

meeting of May 7 & 8, 1998 in Farmington, NM., a briefings and

discussions on the status of the NEPA process for the RAC Standards for

Public Land Health and Guidelines for Livestock Grazing Management and

other NEPA concerns. Also included on the agenda are BLM Field Office

Manager presentations, continued discussion on establishment of RAC

Subgroups and RAC Charter proposed changes, standards and guidelines-

economic presentation, Clean Water Act presentation and discussion,

multiyear plan and performance indicators presentation and discussion,

establish location and date for next RAC meeting and develop draft

agenda items, RAC discussion on assessment of the meeting and other

items as appropriate.

A field tour is scheduled for the afternoon of July 31, 1998. The

tour will begin about 1:00 pm and take most of the afternoon. The exact

time and location to meet for the field trip will be established during

the RAC meeting.

The meeting will begin on July 30, 1998 at 8:30 a.m. The meeting is

open to the public. The time for the public to address the RAC is on

Thursday, July 30, 1998, from 3:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. The RAC may reduce

or extend the end time of 5:00 p.m. depending on the number of people

wishing to address the RAC. The length of time available for each

person to address the RAC will be established at the start of the

public comment period and will depend on how many people there are that

wish to address the RAC. At the completion of the public comments the

RAC may continue discussion on its Agenda items. The meeting on Friday

July 31, 1998, will be from 8:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. The ending time for

the meeting may be changed depending on the work remaining for the RAC.

Starting about 1:00 p.m. the RAC members, on a volunteer basis, will go

on a field tour on rafts on the Rio Grande. The tour is expected to

last most of the afternoon.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Bob Armstrong, New Mexico State Office, Planning and Policy Team,

Bureau of Land Management, 1474 Rodeo Road, P.O. Box 27115, Santa Fe,

New Mexico 87502-0115, telephone (505) 438-7436.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The purpose of the Resource Advisory Council

is to advise the Secretary of the Interior, through the BLM, on a

variety of planning and management issues associated with the

management of public lands. The Council's responsibilities include

providing advice on long-range planning, establishing resource

management priorities and assisting the BLM to identify State and

regional standards for rangeland health and guidelines for grazing

management.

Dated: June 8, 1998.

Stephen A. Jordan,

Acting Deputy State Director.

[FR Doc. 98-15688 Filed 6-11-98; 8:45 am]

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