[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 166 (Monday, August 26, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Pages 43735-43736]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-21711]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Institute of Standards and Technology
Visiting Committee on Advanced Technology
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 National Institute of Standards and
Technology's Visiting Committee on Advanced Technology (NIST) will meet
on Tuesday, September 17, 1996, from 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 and on
Wednesday, September 18, from 8:30 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. The Visiting
Committee on Advanced Technology is composed of 15 members appointed by
the Director of the National Institute of Standards and Technology who
are eminent in such fields as business, research, new
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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
presentations on NIST programs, including the Manufacturing Extension
Partnership (MEP): Role of the States and of Industry and Customer and
Center Perspective, MEP Workforce Initiatives; the Advanced Technology
Program (ATP): Components Based Software and Digital Data Storage;
Laboratory Council Approach to Assessing and Assuring Measurement and
Standards Needs; NIST budget; and a laboratory tour to review the AC
Voltage Standards Using Josephson Arrays.
Discussions on the NIST budget, including funding levels of the
Applied Technology Program and the Manufacturing Extension Partnership
and the staffing of management positions at NIST scheduled to begin at
4:30 p.m. and to end at 5:00 p.m. on September 17, 1996, will be
closed.
DATES: The meeting will convene September 17, 1996, at 8:30 a.m. and
will adjourn at 9:30 a.m. on September 18, 1996.
ADDRESSES: On September 17, 1996, from 8:30 a.m. to 11:50 a.m. the
meeting will be held in the Millennium Room at the Regal Harvest House,
1345 Twenty-eighth Street, Boulder, Colorado and from 1:15 p.m. in the
Radio Building, Room 1107, at the National Institute of Standards and
Technology, Boulder, Colorado; and on September 18, 1996, from 8:30
a.m. to 9:30 a.m. the meeting will be held in the Millennium Room at
the Regal Harvest House, 1345 Twenty-eighth Street, Boulder, Colorado.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Chris E. Kuyatt, Visiting Committee Executive Director, National
Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland 20899,
telephone number (301) 975-6090.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Assistant Secretary for Administration,
with the concurrence of the General Counsel, formally determined on
August 15, 1996, that portions of the meeting of the Visiting Committee
on Advanced Technology which involve discussion of proposed funding of
the MEP and the ATP Programs 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: August 19, 1996.
Samuel Kramer,
Associate Director.
[FR Doc. 96-21711 Filed 8-23-96; 8:45 am]
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