San Francisco Bay/Inland Delta Biological Case Study Public Workshop

Fish and Wildlife Service, Interior.

Notice of meeting.

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This notice announces the San Francisco Bay/Inland Delta Biological Case Study Public Workshop. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is funding three biological case studies in fulfillment of the Biological Study requirements of the Nonindigenous Aquatic Nuisance Prevention and Control Act of 1990. The studies provide the basis for reporting to Congress on whether aquatic nuisance species threaten the ecological characteristics and economic uses of waters of the United States other than the Great Lakes. The Service strategy for fulfilling this requirement includes a public workshop after each Biological Case Study is completed to ensure broad and comprehensive review and input, especially with regard to impacts of aquatic nuisance species. Specifically, this workshop will include an update on San Francisco Bay and Inland Delta aquatic nuisance species invasions and associated impacts, provide a forum for stakeholders and interested parties to evaluate, comment on, and add to the San Francisco Bay/Inland Delta Biological Case Study, and provide an opportunity for participant to provide additional information and make associated recommendations. The workshop is open to the public. Interested persons may make oral statements at the meeting or submit written statements for consideration.

The Workshop will be held from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. on December 10, 1997.

The Workshop will be held at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' Bay Model Visitor Center, 2100 Bridgeway, Sausalito, California.

Craig A. Czarnecki, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, by telephone at 703-358-2464 or E-mail at craig__czarnecki@fws.gov or Robert Peoples, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, by telephone at 703-358-2025 or E-mail at robert__peoples@fws.gov.