[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 40 (Monday, March 2, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Page 10191]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-5187]


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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 Visiting Committee on Advanced 
Technology, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), will 
meet Tuesday, March 10, 1998 from 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. The Visiting 
Committee on Advanced Technology is composed of fifteen members 
appointed by the Director of 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. The agenda will include an update on NIST programs; report on 
the objectives and milestones for the Advanced Technology Program 
(ATP), the Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP), and the National 
Quality Program; benchmarking with other national laboratories; and a 
laboratory tour. Discussions on staffing of management positions at 
NIST scheduled to begin at 8:30 a.m. and to end at 9:00 a.m. on March 
10, 1998, and the NIST budget, including funding levels of the MEP and 
ATP programs scheduled to begin at 4:30 p.m. and to end at 5:00 p.m. on 
March 10, 1998, will be closed.

DATES: The meeting will convene March 10, 1998, at 8:30 a.m. and will 
adjourn at 5:00 p.m. on March 10, 1998.

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, MD 20899, telephone number (301) 975-6090.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Assistant Secretary for Administration, 
with the concurrence of the General Counsel, formally determined on 
February 13, 1998, 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 Advanced 
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: February 24, 1998.
Robert B. Hebner,
Acting Deputy Director.
[FR Doc. 98-5187 Filed 2-27-98; 8:45 am]
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