[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 89 (Thursday, May 8, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Pages 25173-25174]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-11972]


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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, June 3, 1997, from 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.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 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 an action plan to respond to the Technology 
Transfer Act of 1995, the status of the NIST effort to update its 
facilities needs assessment and the progress on developing a new master 
plan for the Gaithersburg and Boulder sites, NIST Budget, and a 
laboratory tour.

    Discussions on the NIST budget, including funding levels of the 
Applied Technology Program (ATP), and the staffing of management 
positions at NIST scheduled to begin at 4:15 p.m. and to end at 5:00 
p.m. on June 3, 1997, will be closed.

DATES: The meeting will convene June 3, 1997, at 8:30 a.m. and will 
adjourn at 5:00 p.m. on June 3, 1997.

ADDRESS: The meeting will be held in the Radio Building, Room 1107 
(seating capacity 60, includes 35 participants), National Institute of 
Standards and Technology, Boulder, CO.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Chris E. Kuyatt, Executive Director, Visiting Committee on Advanced 
Technology, National Institute of Standards and Technology, 
Gaithersburg, MD 20899, telephone number (301) 975-6090.


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SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Assistant Secretary for Administration, 
with the concurrence of the General Counsel, formally determined on 
January 23, 1997, 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: May 1, 1997.
Elaine Bunten-Mines,
Director, Program Office.
[FR Doc. 97-11972 Filed 5-7-97; 8:45 am]
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