[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 220 (Monday, November 16, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Page 63709]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-30577]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

National Institute of Standards and Technology


Visiting Committee on advanced Technology; Meeting

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, December 8, 1998 from 8:30 a.m. to 5 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; Applied 
Technology Program/Manufacturing Extension Partnership (ATP/MEP) 
Cooperation on Dissemination; Changes in ATP Procedures for the FY 1999 
Competitions; NIST Diversity Initiatives; Chemical Science and 
Technology laboratory's Process for Setting Project Priorities; Update 
on Status of Advanced Encryption Standard; Measurements and Data for 
Aircraft Fire Suppression; and a tour of the Advanced Chemical Sciences 
Laboratory. Discussions scheduled to begin at 8:30 a.m. and to end at 
9:10 a.m. on December 8, 1998, on staffing of management positions at 
NIST and the NIST budget, including funding levels of the Advanced 
Technology Program and the Manufacturing Extension Partnership, will be 
closed.

dates: The meeting will convene December 8, 1998, at 8:30 a.m. and will 
adjourn at 5 p.m. on December 8, 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: Dr. Brian C. Belanger, Executive 
Director, Visiting Committee on Advanced Technology, National Institute 
of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD 20899-1004, telephone 
number (301) 975-4720.

supplementary information: The Assistant Secretary for Administration, 
with the concurrence of the General Counsel, formally determined on 
August 7, 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: November 10, 1998.
Robert E. Hebner,
Acting Deputy Director.
[FR Doc. 98-30577 Filed 11-13-98; 8:45 am]
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