[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 99 (Tuesday, May 23, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Page 27273]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-12548]



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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Institute of Standards and Technology


Announcement of a Meeting to Discuss an Opportunity to Join a 
Cooperative Research and Development Consortium for Accelerated Wear 
Resistance Screening Tests for Orthopedic Joint Replacement Implant 
Materials

AGENCY: National Institute of Standards and Technology.

ACTION: Notice of public meeting.

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SUMMARY: The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) 
invites interested parties to attend a meeting on July 6, 1995 to 
discuss the possibility of setting up a cooperative research consortium 
on the development of methods to accelerate the evaluation of wear 
resistance of orthopedic hip and knee implant materials. Parties 
interested in participating in the consortium should be prepared to 
invest adequate resources in the collaboration and be firmly committed 
to the goal of developing new accelerated wear evaluation technology.
    Any program undertaken will be within the scope and confines of The 
Federal Technology Transfer Act of 1986 (Pub. L. 99-502, 15 U.S.C. 
3710a), which provides federal laboratories including NIST, with the 
authority to enter into cooperative research agreements with qualified 
parties. Under this law, NIST may provide ``personnel, service, 
facilities, equipment or other resources with or without reimbursement 
(but not funds to non-federal parties)''--to the cooperative research 
program.
    The meeting will be held on July 6, 1995 at 8:30 a.m., Room A315, 
Building 224 at NIST in Gaithersburg, MD, for interested parties. The 
meeting will discuss the possible formation of a research consortium 
including NIST and orthopedic industry to conduct research in this 
area. This is not a grant program.

DATES: The meeting will be held on July 6, 1995. Interested parties 
should contact NIST to confirm their attendance at the address, 
telephone number or FAX number shown below no later than June 22, 1995.

ADDRESSES: The meeting will held at 8:30 a.m., Room A315, Building 224, 
National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dr. John A. Tesk, Building 224, Room 
A143, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD 
20899. Telephone: 301-975-6799; FAX: 301-963-9143; e-mail: tesk@
micf.nist.gov.

    Dated: May 16, 1995.
Raymond G. Kammer,
Deputy Director.
[FR Doc. 95-12548 Filed 5-22-95; 8:45 am]
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