[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 24 (Monday, February 5, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Pages 4257-4258]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-2340]



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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Announcement of a Meeting To Discuss an Opportunity To Join a 
Cooperative Research and Development Consortium on Fire-Retardant and 
Environmentally-Safe Materials

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 February 23, 1996 to 
discuss the possibility of setting up a cooperative research consortium 
on new Environmentally Safe Fire Retardant technology. The Consortium 
is dedicated to further research on the basic science of the technology 
as applied to specific applications.
    Any program undertaken will be within the scope and confines of The 


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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 Friday February 23, 1996 from 9:00 a.m. 
to 3:00 p.m., Room A149, Building 224, at NIST in Gaithersburg, MD, for 
interested parties. The meeting will discuss the possible formation of 
a research consortium including NIST and manufacturing industry to 
conduct research in this area. This is not a grant program.

DATES: The meeting will be held on February 23, 1996. Interested 
parties should contact NIST to confirm their attendance at the address, 
telephone number or FAX number shown below no later than February 16, 
1996.

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at 9:00 a.m., Room A149, Building 
224, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg MD.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Dr. Takashi Kashiwagi, Building 224, Room B-258, National Institute of 
Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD 20899. Telephone: 301-975-
6699; FAX: 301-975-4052; e-mail: [email protected].

    Dated: January 30, 1996.
Samuel Kramer,
Associate Director.
[FR Doc. 96-2340 Filed 2-2-96; 8:45 am]
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