[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 160 (Wednesday, August 19, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Page 44425]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-22282]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Technology Administration
Under Secretary for Technology; National Medal of Technology
Nomination Evaluation Committee; Determination for Closure of Meeting
The National Medal of Technology Nomination Evaluation Committee
has scheduled a meeting for August 25, 1998.
The Committee was established to assist the Department in executing
its responsibilities under 15 U.S.C. 3711. Under this provision, the
Secretary is responsible for recommending to the President prospective
recipients of the National Medal of Technology. The committee's
recommendations are made after reviewing all nominations received in
response to a public solicitation. The Committee is chartered to have
twelve members.
Time and Place: The meeting will begin at 10 a.m. and end at 4 p.m.
on August 25, 1998. The meeting will be held in Room 4824 at the U.S.
Department of Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution Avenue, NW.,
Washington, DC 20230. For further information contact: Allison
Rosenberg, Director, National Medal of Technology, U.S. Department of
Commerce, 14th and Constitution Avenue, NW., Herbert C. Hoover
Building, Room 4226, Washington, DC 20230, Ph: (202-482-5572).
If a member of the public would like to submit written comments
concerning the committee's affairs at any time before and after the
meeting, written comments should be addressed to the Director of the
National Medal of Technology as indicated above.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The meeting will be closed to discuss the
relative merits of persons and companies nominated for the Medal.
Public disclosure of this information would be likely to significantly
frustrate implementation of the National Medal of Technology program
because premature publicity about candidates under consideration for
the Medal, who may or may not ultimately receive the award, would be
likely to discourage nominations for the Medal.
Accordingly, I find and determine, pursuant to Section 10(d) of the
Federal Advisory Committee Act, 5 U.S.C. app. 2, as amended, that the
August 25, 1998, meeting may be closed to the public in accordance with
Section 552b(c)(9)(B) of Title 5, United States Code because revealing
information about Medal candidates would be likely to significantly
frustrate implementation of a proposed agency action.
Due to closure of the meeting, copies of the minutes of the meeting
will not be available, however a copy of the Notice of Determination
will be available for public inspection and copying in the office of
Allison Rosenberg, Director, National Medal of Technology, 14th and
Constitution Avenue, NW., Herbert Hoover Building, Room 4226,
Washington, DC 20230, (Ph: 202-482-5572).
Kelly H. Carnes,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Technology Policy.
[FR Doc. 98-22282 Filed 8-18-98; 8:45 am]
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