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	American Geological Institute
	Last Updated: April 17, 1999

About the AGI Government Affairs Program
The AGI Government Affairs Program (GAP), established in 1992, serves as an important link between the federal government and the geoscience community. Through Congressional workshops, testimony, letters, and meetings, GAP ensures that th e voices of the AGI Member Societies are heard on Capitol Hill and in the executive branch. At the same time, GAP is working to improve the flow of geoscience information to policy-makers. Equally important is the program's mission of providing federal sc ience-policy information back to the Member Societies and the geoscience community at large. Science-Engineering-Technology Congressional Visits Day: April 21-22, 1999 1999-2000 AGI Congressional Science Fellowship AGI Geoscience and Public Policy Summer and Semester Internships AGI Government Affairs Program Strategic Plan (9/98) Plan approved by AGI Government Affairs Program Advisory Committee, Executive Committee, and Member Society Council.
What's New
Update on Domestic Oil and Gas Incentives Legislation (4-17-99) Update on Database Protection Legislation (4-17-99) Special Update: AGI Testifies on USGS and DOE Appropriations (4-14-99) Electricity Deregulation Update (4-9-99) Superfund Update (4-9-99) Geotimes Political Scene: The President's Budget Request for the Geosciences (4/99) Geotimes News Note: AGU Tackles Climate Change (4/99) Endangered Species Act Update (4-3-99) Monthly Update: March 1999 Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) Update (3-29-99) National Earthquake Hazard Reduction Program Reauthorization (3-27-99) Caspian Sea Oil and Gas Exploration Hearing Summary (3-25-99) Climate Change Policy Update (3-25-99) High-Level Nuclear Waste Update (3-24-99) Summary of House Hearing on Yucca Mountain Project (3-12-99) Geologic Mapping Act Reauthorization Update (3-17-99) Special Update: Climate Change Legislation Introduced in Senate (3-15-99) Oil and Gas Royalty Update (3-15-99) Science Education Policy Update (3-12-99) Special Update: AGI Testifies Before National Science Board Task Force on the Environment (3-8-99) Geotimes Political Scene: Senators Debate Response to Oil Crisis (3/99) Geotimes News Note: Yucca Mountain Still a Go (3/99) TPG Government Affairs Report: A Quest for Intergovernmental Cooperation Within the Domain of Geographic Data (2/99) Communicating with Congress: 106th Congress edition (3-2-99) Outer Continental Shelf Royalties Update (3-2-99)