[Federal Register: June 27, 2006 (Volume 71, Number 123)]
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

Forest Service

 
Forest Counties Payments Committee Meeting

AGENCY: Forest Service, USDA.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The Forest Counties Payments Committee has scheduled a 
business meeting to discuss how it will provide Congress with the 
information specified in Section 320 of the Fiscal Year 2001 Interior 
and Related Agencies Appropriations Act. The meeting is open to the 
public.

DATES: The meeting will be held on July 18, 2006, from 9 a.m. until 5 
p.m. and on July 19, 2006, from 9 a.m. until 12 p.m.

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at the Doubletree Hotel and 
Executive Meeting Center, 1000 N.E. Multnomah, Portland, Oregon 97232.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Randle G. Phillips, Executive 
Director, Forest Counties Payments Committee, at (202) 208-6574 or via 
e-mail at rphillips01@fs.fed.us.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Section 320 of the Interior and Related 
Agencies Appropriations Act of 2001 created the Forest Counties 
Payments Committee to make recommendations to Congress on a long-term 
solution for making Federal payments to eligible States and counties in 
which Federal lands are situated. The Committee will consider the 
impact on eligible States and counties of revenues from the historic 
multiple use of Federal lands; evaluate the economic, environmental, 
and social benefits which accrue to counties containing Federal lands; 
evaluate the expenditures by counties on activities occurring on 
Federal lands, which are Federal responsibilities; and monitor payments 
and implementation of The Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-
Determination Act of 2000 (Pub. L. 106-393).

    Dated: June 20, 2006.
Timothy DeCoster,
Director, Legislative Affairs.
 [FR Doc. E6-10080 Filed 6-26-06; 8:45 am]

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