Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 94 Part 2.djvu/1192

 94 STAT. 2470

PUBLIC LAW 96-487—DEC. 2, 1980

tions for legislation or other action which they determine should be taken following termination of the Council to continue carrying out the purposes for which the Council was established. (m) PUBLIC PARTICIPATION.—The Council shall establish and implement a public participation program to assist the Council to carry out its responsibilities and functions under this section. Such program shall include, but is not limited to— (1) A committee of land-use advisors appointed by the Cochairmen made up of representatives of commercial and industrial land users in Alaska, recreational land users, wilderness users, environmental groups, Native Corporations, and other public and private organizations. To the maximum extent practicable, the membership of the committee shall provide a balanced mixture of national. State, and local perspective and expertise on land and resource use issues; and (2) A system for (A) the identification of persons and communities, in rural and urban Alaska, who or which may be directly or significantly affected by studies conducted, or advice and recommendations given by the Council pursuant to this section, and (B) guidelines for, and implementation of, a system for effective public participation by such persons or communities in the development of such studies, advice and recommendations by the Council. FEDERAL COORDINATION COMMITTEE Establishment.

16 USC 3182.

Publication in Federal Register.

SEC. 1202. There is hereby established a Federal Coordination Committee composed of the Secretaries (or their designees) of Agriculture, Energy, the Interior, and Transportation; the Administrators of the Environmental Protection Agency, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration; and the Federal and State Cochairmen of the Council. Such Committee shall meet at least once every four months in order to coordinate those programs and functions of their respective agencies which could affect the administration of lands and resources in Alaska. The Federal Cochairman shall be the Chairman of the Committee. He shall be responsible for formulating an agenda for each meeting, after consultation with the other agency heads referred to herein, for providing any necessary staff support, and for preparing a brief summary of the disposition of matters discussed at each meeting. Such summary shall be published in the Federal Register. BRISTOL BAY COOPERATIVE REGION

16 USC 3183.

eooperative management plan.

SEC. 1203. (a) DEFINITIONS.—For purposes of this section— (1) The term "Governor" means the Governor of the State of Alaska. (2) The term "region" means the land (other than any land within the National Park System) within the Bristol Bay Cooperative Region as generally depicted on the map entitled "Bristol Bay-Alaska Peninsula", dated October 1979. (b) PURPOSE.—The purpose of this section is to provide for the preparation and implementation of a comprehensive and systematic cooperative management plan (hereinafter in this section referred to as the "plan"), agreed to by the United States and the State— (1) to conserve the fish and wildlife and other significant natural and cultural resources within the region;

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