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The National Advisory Committee for Implementation of the National Forest System Land Management Planning Rule has scheduled a three-day meeting for late August. The U.S. Forest Service announced the meeting on Thursday, Aug. 1. You can read the agenda at http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2013-08-01/html/2013-18469.htm.
The meeting, the committee’s fifth, takes place between 8 a.m. Tuesday, Aug. 27 and 11:30 a.m. Thursday, Aug. 29 Mountain Time at the Embassy Suites Salt Lake/West Valley City, 3524 South Market St., West Valley City, Utah, 84119. The public may attend. If you can’t make it to Utah, you may listen in or participate by conference call or webinar.
You can also send written comments.
In addition to discussing standard administrative matters, the committee will discuss its working group findings and develop advice on the Proposed Land Management Planning Directives.
The committee last met in June. It first met in Washington, DC last June. You can find background at http://www.fs.usda.gov/main/planningrule/committee.