[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 220 (Monday, November 16, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Page 63709]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-30577]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Institute of Standards and Technology
Visiting Committee on advanced Technology; Meeting
agency: National Institute of Standards and Technology, Department of
Commerce.
action: Notice of partially closed meeting.
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summary: Pursuant to the Federal Advisory Committee Act, 5 U.S.C. app.
2, notice is hereby given that the Visiting Committee on Advanced
Technology, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), will
meet Tuesday, December 8, 1998 from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. The Visiting
Committee on Advanced Technology is composed of fifteen members
appointed by the Director of NIST: who are eminent in such fields as
business, research, new product development, engineering, labor,
education, management consulting, environment, and international
relations. The purpose of this meeting is to review and make
recommendations regarding general policy for the Institute, its
organization, its budget, and its programs within the framework of
applicable national policies as set forth by the President and the
Congress. The agenda will include an update on NIST programs; Applied
Technology Program/Manufacturing Extension Partnership (ATP/MEP)
Cooperation on Dissemination; Changes in ATP Procedures for the FY 1999
Competitions; NIST Diversity Initiatives; Chemical Science and
Technology laboratory's Process for Setting Project Priorities; Update
on Status of Advanced Encryption Standard; Measurements and Data for
Aircraft Fire Suppression; and a tour of the Advanced Chemical Sciences
Laboratory. Discussions scheduled to begin at 8:30 a.m. and to end at
9:10 a.m. on December 8, 1998, on staffing of management positions at
NIST and the NIST budget, including funding levels of the Advanced
Technology Program and the Manufacturing Extension Partnership, will be
closed.
dates: The meeting will convene December 8, 1998, at 8:30 a.m. and will
adjourn at 5 p.m. on December 8, 1998.
addresses: The meeting will be held in the Employees' Lounge (seating
capacity 80, includes 38 participants), Administration Building, at
NIST, Gaithersburg, Maryland.
for further information contact: Dr. Brian C. Belanger, Executive
Director, Visiting Committee on Advanced Technology, National Institute
of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD 20899-1004, telephone
number (301) 975-4720.
supplementary information: The Assistant Secretary for Administration,
with the concurrence of the General Counsel, formally determined on
August 7, 1998, that portions of the meeting of the Visiting Committee
on Advanced Technology which involve discussion of proposed funding of
the Manufacturing Extension Partnership and the Advanced Technology
Program may be closed in accordance with 5 U.S.C. 552b(c)(9)(B),
because those portions of the meetings will divulge matters the
premature disclosure of which would be likely to significantly
frustrate implementation of proposed agency actions; and that portions
of meetings which involve discussion of the staffing issues of
management and other positions at NIST may be closed in accordance with
5 U.S.C. 552b(c)(6), because divulging information discussed in those
portions of the meetings is likely to reveal information of a personal
nature where disclosure would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion
of personal privacy.
Dated: November 10, 1998.
Robert E. Hebner,
Acting Deputy Director.
[FR Doc. 98-30577 Filed 11-13-98; 8:45 am]
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