Release No. 0337.97
Media Advisory
                                       Tom Amontree, 202-720-4623
                                            tom.amontree@usda.gov

USDA'S Jefferson Auditorium Available to View the White House Conference on Climate Change

     WASHINGTON, Oct. 2, 1997--The U.S. Department of Agriculture will host a satellite downlink site in Jefferson
Auditorium of the "White House Conference on Climate Change -- The Challenge of Global Warming" on Mon., Oct.
6, 1997, beginning at 10:00 a.m.  The conference will be up-linked from Georgetown University. USDA is one of 33
downlink site hosts around the country.

The broad agenda for the conference is as follows:
     The morning session will include comments from President Bill Clinton and Vice President Al Gore as well
     as panel discussions on the "Science of Global Warming and Climate Change," and "The Role of Technology
     in Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions."

     The afternoon session will include an address by First Lady, Hillary Rodham Clinton, and panel discussion on
     the "Kyoto Conference and U.S. National Interests," and "Climate Change Policy and the U.S. Economy."

     There will be an hour and a half break for lunch between the morning and afternoon sessions.

     The Jefferson Auditorium is located in the USDA South Agriculture Building, 1400 Independence Ave, SW
(between 12th and 14th Streets).  The closest Metro station is Smithsonian on the Blue and Orange lines.

                                 
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