[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 32 (Thursday, February 15, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Page 5986]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-3506]



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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Announcement of a Meeting To Discuss Standards Development for 
Low-Level Light Standards for Luminometry

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 May 1, 1996 to plan, 
with the assistance of public and private sector stakeholders, a 
national program to develop standards and a standards traceability 
scheme for low-level light measurements. Attendees should come prepared 
to discuss standards specifications, their specific standards needs, as 
well as resources that they are able to provide toward meeting those 
needs. This program may become a consortium and attendees would have 
the opportunity to join through a Cooperative Research and Development 
Agreement.
    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 Wednesday May 1, 1996 at 8:00 a.m., 
Administration Building, Lecture Room A & B, 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 May 1, 1996. Interested parties 
should contact NIST to confirm their attendance at the address, 
telephone number or FAX number shown below no later than April 17, 
1996.

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at 8:00 a.m., Administration 
Building, Lecture Room A & B, National Institute of Standards and 
Technology, Gaithersburg, MD.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dr. Gary W., Kramer, Chemistry 
Building, Room B156, National Institute of Standards and Technology, 
Gaithersburg, MD 20899. Telephone: 301-975-4132; FAX: 301-975-3845; e-
mail: [email protected].

    Dated: February 9. 1996.
Samuel Kramer,
Associate Director.
[FR Doc. 96-3506 Filed 2-14-96; 8:45 am]
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