[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 18 (Tuesday, January 28, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Pages 4083-4084]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-1960]


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NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION

United States Antarctic Program (USAP) Blue Ribbon Panel; Notice 
of Meeting Amendment

    This notice is being amended to provide for a one-hour closed 
session. There are no other changes. For the convenience of the reader, 
this notice is being re-published in its entirety. The notice for this 
meeting appeared in the Federal Register on January 17, Vol. 62, No. 
12, page 2694.

NAME AND COMMITTEE CODE: United States Antarctic (USAP) Program Blue 
Ribbon Panel (#1531).


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DATE AND TIME: February 7, 8 am-6 pm; February 8, 8:30 am-5 pm.

PLACE: Room 1235, NSF, 4201 Wilson Boulevard, Arlington, VA.

TYPE OF MEETING: Part open.

CONTACT PERSON: Guy G. Guthridge, Room 755, National Science 
Foundation, 4201 Wilson Boulevard, Arlington, Virginia 22230. 
Telephone: (703) 306-1031.

MINUTES: May be obtained from the contact person listed above.

PURPOSE OF MEETING: Examine a full range of infrastructure, management, 
and scientific options for the United States Antarctic Program so that 
the Foundation will be able to maintain the high quality of the 
research and implement U.S. policy in Antarctica under realistic budget 
scenarios.

Agenda

Open Session (February 7 until 4 pm and all of February 8)
    The committee will continue analysis begun at its first three 
meetings (October 11-12, December 20-21, 1996, and January 4, 1997). It 
will receive presentations from Antarctic experts and will discuss 
options in the areas of research, research support, contractor tasking, 
military transition, cost-saving initiatives, health and safety 
context, environment and waste management, South Pole redevelopment, 
international aspects, science users' perspectives, and interagency 
involvement.
Closed Session (5:00-6:00 pm on February 7)
    The committee will be discussing management of the United States 
Antarctic Program.

REASON FOR CLOSING: This session is closed to the public because the 
Committee will be reviewing and discussing materials that will include 
information of a personal nature that could harm individuals if 
disclosed. If discussions were open to the public, these matters that 
are exempt under 5 U.S.C. 552b(c)(6) of the Government in the Sunshine 
Act would be improperly disclosed.

    Dated: January 22, 1997.
M. Rebecca Winkler,
Committee Management Officer.
[FR Doc. 97-1960 Filed 1-27-97; 8:45 am]
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