Sunday, September 26th

8:30 am Continental breakfast

9:00 am Introductions and Preliminary Business

• Approval of Report from 4/99 meeting
• Review of GAP finances

• CNSF Exhibition
• Geologic Mapping Testimony
• Fossils on Federal Lands Public Meeting
• Summer and Semester Internships
• NSF Task Force on the Environment
• Meeting on Science in Federal Courts
• Appropriations Advocacy
• Staff Presentations/Outreach

10:15 am Update on Earth Science Week and AGI Outreach Plans

10:30 am Reports from Member Societies

• Priority Issues
• Shared Concerns and Ideas
• Mobilizing Society Memberships

12:00 noon Lunch at AGI

1:00 pm Responding to the Kansas Challenge -- Evolution and Public Policy

• Response so far
• Mobilizing the grassroots
• Future challenges

• Establishment of working group
• Hill briefings

• Additional member society sponsorship/activities
• Congressional focus groups
• Action plan for statement

4:15 pm Presentation by AGI Congressional Science Fellow

4:45 pm Review Agenda and Focus of Monday's Agency Visits

5:15 pm Action Items/Plans for Next Meeting on April 2, 2000

5:30 pm Adjourn

6:00 pm Dinner in Old Town Alexandria (Restaurant TBD)

Monday, September 27th

9:00 am Dr. Mark Anderson, White House Office of Science & Technology Policy

10:00 am  Dr. Mark Schaefer, Dep. Asst. Secretary of the Interior for Water and Science

1:00 pm Dr. Chip Groat, US Geological Survey Director

4:00 pm George Brown Memorial Symposium at AAAS

(other meetings still tentative)

Please send any comments or requests for information to AGI Government Affairs Program at govt@agiweb.org.

Posted September 20, 1999

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