[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 165 (Thursday, August 26, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Pages 46656-46657]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-22218]
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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 Visiting Committee on Advanced
Technology, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), will
meet Tuesday, September 14, 1999 from 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 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; Update on
the Manufacturing Extension Partnership; Chemical Science and
Technology Laboratory's Thermophysical Properties Standard Reference
Data Dissemination; a laboratory tour of the Materials Science and
Engineering Laboratory's Welding R&D Program; Electronic and Electrical
Engineering Laboratory's Future Directions in Metrology for the
Magnetic Recording Industry and RF and Antenna Measurements; and
Physics Laboratory's Short Pulse Lasers and the Laser ``Ruler''.
Discussions scheduled to begin at 8:15 a.m. and to end at 9:15 a.m.
on September 14, 1999, 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 September 14, 1999, at 8:15 a.m. and
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will adjourn at 5:30 p.m. on September 14, 1999.
ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held in the Radio Building, Room 1107
(seating capacity 60, includes 35 participants), National Institute of
Standards and Technology, Boulder, Colorado.
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 Acting Chief Financial Officer and
Assistant Secretary for Administration, with the concurrence of the
General Counsel, formally determined on July 15, 1999, that portions of
the meeting of the Visiting Committee on Advanced Technology which
involved discussion of proposed funding of the Advanced Technology
Program and the Manufacturing Extension Partnership 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: August 17, 1999.
Karen H. Brown,
Deputy Director.
[FR Doc. 99-22218 Filed 8-25-99; 8:45 am]
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