AGENCY:
Bureau of Land Management, Lewistown Field Office, Interior.
ACTION:
Notice of meeting.
SUMMARY:
The Central Montana Resource Advisory Council will meet October 17-18, 2000 at the Holiday Inn, In Great Falls, Montana.
The October 17 portion of the meeting will begin at 7:45 am with a field trip to the Greenfields Irrigation District. The council will then have lunch and return to the Holiday Inn. At 1 p.m. there will be a 30-minute public comment period; followed by a welcome and orientation session for new RAC members; field manager updates; a review of funding requests for fiscal year 2001 and CARA legislation; a review of Lewis & Clark Bicentennial plans; and an open discussion among council members. This session will adjourn at 5 p.m.
The October 18 session will begin at 7:45 am with updates concerning sage grouse and sagebrush, prairie dogs, plovers, black-footed ferrets, noxious weeds, cottonwood regeneration and a cooperative ecosystem river study. The council will break for lunch from 12-1 p.m. After lunch the RAC will participate in discussions concerning the Missouri River subgroup, subdivisions, cottonwood regeneration, and river ferry crossing funding projects. These updates will conclude by 3:30 pm. The council will then address administrative details and adjourn by 5 p.m.
DATES:
October 17 and 18, 2000.
LOCATION:
Holiday Inn, Great Falls, Montana.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
David L. Mari, Lewistown Field Manager, Lewistown Field Office, Bureau of land Management, Box 1160, Airport Road, Lewistown, MT.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
The meeting is open to the public and there will be a public comment period as described above 59457.
Dated: September 21, 2000.
B. Gene Miller,
Associate Field Office Manager.
[FR Doc. 00-25108 Filed 9-29-00; 8:45 am]
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