[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 166 (Monday, August 26, 1996)] [Notices] [Pages 43735-43736] From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov] [FR Doc No: 96-21711] ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- SUMMARY: Pursuant to the Federal Advisory Committee Act, 5 U.S.C. app. 2, notice is hereby given that the National Institute of Standards and Technology's Visiting Committee on Advanced Technology (NIST) will meet on Tuesday, September 17, 1996, from 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 and on Wednesday, September 18, from 8:30 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. The Visiting Committee on Advanced Technology is composed of 15 members appointed by the Director of the National Institute of Standards and Technology who are eminent in such fields as business, research, new [[Page 43736]] 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 presentations on NIST programs, including the Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP): Role of the States and of Industry and Customer and Center Perspective, MEP Workforce Initiatives; the Advanced Technology Program (ATP): Components Based Software and Digital Data Storage; Laboratory Council Approach to Assessing and Assuring Measurement and Standards Needs; NIST budget; and a laboratory tour to review the AC Voltage Standards Using Josephson Arrays. Discussions on the NIST budget, including funding levels of the Applied Technology Program and the Manufacturing Extension Partnership and the staffing of management positions at NIST scheduled to begin at 4:30 p.m. and to end at 5:00 p.m. on September 17, 1996, will be closed. DATES: The meeting will convene September 17, 1996, at 8:30 a.m. and will adjourn at 9:30 a.m. on September 18, 1996. ADDRESSES: On September 17, 1996, from 8:30 a.m. to 11:50 a.m. the meeting will be held in the Millennium Room at the Regal Harvest House, 1345 Twenty-eighth Street, Boulder, Colorado and from 1:15 p.m. in the Radio Building, Room 1107, at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder, Colorado; and on September 18, 1996, from 8:30 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. the meeting will be held in the Millennium Room at the Regal Harvest House, 1345 Twenty-eighth Street, Boulder, Colorado. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Chris E. Kuyatt, Visiting Committee Executive Director, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland 20899, telephone number (301) 975-6090. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Assistant Secretary for Administration, with the concurrence of the General Counsel, formally determined on August 15, 1996, that portions of the meeting of the Visiting Committee on Advanced Technology which involve discussion of proposed funding of the MEP and the ATP Programs 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 19, 1996. Samuel Kramer, Associate Director. [FR Doc. 96-21711 Filed 8-23-96; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 3510-13-M