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<br />B-ll <br /> <br /> <br />002732 <br /> <br />official. Most of the rest of them are from private institu- <br />tions. State government is represented, Jim Burns from Resources <br />Agency of the State. There are several university professors, Dr. <br />Johns, Dean of the School of Earth Sciences at Stanford represents <br />these sciences, soils, and minerals, geology. Private industry is <br />represented by Dean Lemon, who is with the U. S. Borax, is on the <br />Committee. So it contains a variety of individuals with backgrounds <br />both in private as well as public institutions. <br /> <br />Mr. Slingerland. What's the general charge for your Advisory <br />Committee? <br /> <br />Mr. Pfulb. The general charge is to act as a liaison to the <br />Bureau of Land Management to insure that the interests in that <br />category is properly considered that is the public input particularly <br />from that point of view is properly considered and to insure that <br />there is enough public input and then to give advice to the State <br />Director to the Secretary through the State Director. During the <br />first year of operation naturally we concentrated, at the request <br />of the Committee, to orient their meetings toward bringing them <br />you might say up to speed on what has been done so far and the <br />nature of the planning program. So we have moved the Committee <br />meetings around throughout the desert, we have taken them into the <br />field in just about every geographic part of the desert. The next <br />one is in May, in which we will meet in Bishop, and the field trip will <br />be into the northern part of the desert in Eureka Valley. That just <br />about completes their field orientation as far as being to every part <br />of the desert. They have served a very useful and informative <br />function also during the period of time when the staff was preparing <br />contracts, describing the nature of the inventory to be done, because <br />many of these people are experts in their various field and gave as <br />good advice on technical things related to our inventory work. In <br />fact a special committee was set up to advise us on work program <br />and inventory and a one-to-one relationship was set up between the <br />specialists on our staff and those particular members of the Advisory <br />Committee who had a specialty. That one-to-one relationship gave us <br />much good input, because many of the kinds of sampling programs we're <br />doing haven't been done before. Even within the special field there <br />are controversies. Yet and probably the most unusual in this sampling <br />program in minerals, to try and predict or project mineral potential. <br />This being a combination of assessment looking at linneans, looking <br />at geostatistical analyses of what's known, geochemical samples taken <br />from allover the desert and then all put together in a modeling <br />approach in order to come out with probabilities, is within itself <br />and effort that you will find people in that field will not agree <br />with. Yet when we ask those same people, what would you do, on behalf <br />of minerals, if you had a deadline like this and you knew that allo- <br />