[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 24 (Monday, February 5, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Page 4258]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-2338]



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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Announcement of a Meeting To Discuss an Opportunity To Join a 
Cooperative Research and Development Consortium for the NIST-EPRI 
Ultrasonic Flow Meter Test Program

AGENCY: National Institute of Standards and Technology, Commerce.

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 March 22, 1996 to 
discuss the possibility of setting up a cooperative research consortium 
with the purpose of evaluating clamp-on time-of-travel ultrasonic flow 
meters. 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 performance evaluation.
    Any program undertaken will be within the scope and confines of The 
Federal Technology Transfer Act of 1986 (Public Law 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 March 22, 1996 at 9 a.m., lecture room 
D, Building 101, at NIST in Gaithersburg, MD, for interested parties. 
The meeting will discuss the possible formation of a research 
consortium including NIST and industry to conduct research in this 
area. This is not a grant program.

DATES: The meeting will be held on March 22, 1996. Interested parties 
should contact NIST to confirm their attendance at the address, 
telephone number or FAX number shown below no later than February 22, 
1996.

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at 9 a.m., lecture room D, Building 
101, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Dr. George Mattingly, Fluid Mechanics Building, room 105, National 
Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD 20899. 
Telephone: 301-975-5939; FAX: 301-258-9201.

    Dated: January 30, 1996.
Samuel Kramer,
Associate Director.
[FR Doc. 96-2338 Filed 2-2-96; 8:45 am]
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