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For Release: Dec. 10, 1998
Media Advisory 98-93a


NASA, CENTRAL AMERICAN NATIONS SIGN EARTH SCIENCES PACT

     NASA and the Central American Commission on the Environment and 
Development (CCAD) will use existing satellite data to develop land-
use maps of Central America.  NASA Administrator Daniel S. Goldin 
and the President of the Central American Commission on the 
Environment and Development, and Minister of Environment and Natural 
Resources of El Salvador, Miguel Eduardo Araujo Padilla, today 
signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) at NASA Headquarters, 
establishing cooperation between the CCAD and NASA in support of the 
Mesoamerican 
Biological Corridor.  

Contact at NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC:  David E. Steitz 
202/358-1730.

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