[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]


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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.

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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

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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]
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