[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 33 (Friday, February 19, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Page 8322]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-4188]


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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 9, 1999 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 NIST update and Discussion of 
Legislative Mandates; Advanced Technology Program Retrospective; 
Building and Fire Research Laboratory Priority Setting; Information 
Technology Laboratory's Software Testing; NIST's Role in Wireless 
Technology; and a lab tour of the Information Technology Laboratory's 
Electronic Books project. Discussions scheduled to begin at 8:30 a.m. 
and to end at 9:10 a.m. on March 9, 1999, 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 March 9, 1999, at 8:30 a.m. and will 
adjourn at 5:00 p.m. on March 9, 1999.

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 Advanced Technology Program and the Manufacturing Extension 
Partnership 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 12, 1999.
Karen H. Brown,
Deputy Director.
[FR Doc. 99-4188 Filed 2-18-99; 8:45 am]
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