[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 228 (Monday, November 25, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Page 59863]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-30051]


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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 (NIST) will meet Tuesday, December 10, 1996, from 8:30 a.m. 
to 5:00 p.m., and on Wednesday, December 11, 1996, from 8:30 a.m. to 
10:00 a.m. The Visiting Committee on Advanced Technology is composed of 
fifteen members appointed by the Director of the NIST who are eminent 
in such fields as business, research new 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. On December 10, 1996, the agenda will include an update on 
NIST programs; report on NIST facilities program, report on Applied 
Technology Program Focused Program: Materials Processing for Heavy 
Manufacturing, presentation on introduction of advanced structural 
ceramics, presentation on future of NIST, discussion of the Institute 
budget; and, on December 11, 1996, laboratory tour of NIST. The 
discussion on the Institute budget scheduled to begin at 4:15 p.m. and 
end at 5:00 p.m., on December 10, 1996, will be closed.

DATES: The meeting will convene December 10, 1996, at 8:30 a.m. and 
will adjourn at 10:00 a.m. on December 11, 1996.

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held in the Employees Lounge (seating 
capacity 80, includes 38 participants), Administration Building, at 
NIST, Gaithersburg, Maryland.

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 Manufacturing Extension Partnership and the Applied Technology 
Program 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: November 19, 1996.
Samuel Kramer,
Associate Director.
[FR Doc. 96-30051 Filed 11-22-96; 8:45 am]
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