[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 8 (Wednesday, January 12, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Page 1910]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-719]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Land Management
[NM-910-09-1020-00]


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 the Interior, Bureau of Land Management 
(BLM), announces a meeting of the New Mexico Resource Advisory Council 
(RAC). The meeting will be held on February 24 and 25, 2000, at the 
Best Western Sally Port Inn and Suites, 2000 N. Main, Roswell, NM 
88201. There is an optional field trip on Saturday February 26, 2000, 
to the Haystack Mountain area for OHV demonstrations and rides. The 
optional tour will end back in Roswell, NM about 1 p.m. The meeting on 
Thursday, February 24, 2000, starts at 8:30 a.m. and will end about 
4:30 p.m. The meeting on Friday February 25, 2000, starts at 8 a.m. and 
will end about 3:30 p.m. The field tour on Saturday, February 26, 2000, 
will start in Roswell at a site selected by the RAC at 9 a.m. and end 
about 1 p.m. returning to the starting location.
    The draft agenda for the RAC meeting includes agreement on the 
meeting agenda, any RAC comments on the draft minutes of the last RAC 
meeting on December 7 and 8, 1999, in Albuquerque, NM, a check in from 
the RAC members, (the following presentations also include discussions) 
a Standards and Guidelines update presentation, a public comment period 
to the RAC, a BLM presentation on urban pressure on the BLM recreation 
program (as time permits), BLM Field Office Managers, State of the 
Field Office presentations, several presentations on roads and trails 
from representatives of the BLM Roswell Field Office (Roads access and 
closure), the Carlsbad Field Office (Roads-new and old), and the State 
of New Mexico representatives (Roads and Trails), RAC Subcommittee 
reports from the Urban/Lands Subcommittee, the Oil and Gas 
Subcommittee, and the Roads and Trails Subcommittee, a presentation on 
Jeeps, an OHV Park presentation, BLM Farmington Field Office (Roads-
Existing policy) and from the Farmington, NM area an Oil and Gas 
Industry presentation on Oil and Gas Roads, RAC discussions and any RAC 
recommendations, develop draft agenda items and select a location for 
the next RAC meeting, and a RAC assessment on the meeting.
    The time for the public to address the RAC is on Thursday February 
24, 2000, from 10 a.m. to 12 noon. The RAC may reduce or extend the end 
time of 12 noon depending on the number of people wishing to address 
the RAC. Anyone wishing to address the RAC should be present at the 10 
starting time. 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 February 25, 2000, will 
be from 8 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. The end time of 3:30 p.m. for the meeting 
may be changed depending on the work remaining for the RAC.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Bob Armstrong, New Mexico State 
Office, Planning and Policy Team, Bureau of Land Management, 1474 Rodeo 
Road, PO 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: January 6, 2000.
Carsten F. Goff,
Acting State Director.
[FR Doc. 00-719 Filed 1-11-00; 8:45 am]
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