[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 126 (Thursday, July 1, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Page 35632]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-16826]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Technology Administration


Office of Technology Policy; National Medal of Technology 
Nomination Evaluation Committee; Notice of Determination for Closure of 
Meeting

    The National Medal of Technology Nomination Evaluation Committee 
has scheduled a meeting for July 13, 1999.
    The Committee was established to assist the Department in executing 
its responsibilities under 15 U.S.C. 3711. Under this provision, the 
Secretary is responsible for recommending to the President prospective 
recipients of the National Medal of Technology. The committee's 
recommendations are made after reviewing all nominations received in 
response to a public solicitation. The Committee is chartered to have 
twelve members.
    Time and Place: The meeting will begin at 10 a.m. and end at 4 p.m. 
on July 13, 1999. The meeting will be held in Room 1410 at the U.S. 
Department of Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution Avenue, NW., 
Washington, DC 20230. For further information contact: Allison 
Rosenberg, Director, National Medal of Technology, U.S. Department of 
Commerce, 14th and Constitution Avenue, NW., Herbert C. Hoover 
Building, Room 4226, Washington, DC 20230, Ph: (202-482-5572).
    If a member of the public would like to submit written comments 
concerning the committee's affairs at any time before and after the 
meeting, written comments should be addressed to the Director, National 
Medal of Technology as indicated above.
    Supplementary Information: The meeting will be closed to discuss 
the relative merits of persons and companies nominated for the Medal. 
Public disclosure of this information would be likely to significantly 
frustrate implementation of the National Medal of Technology program 
because premature publicity about candidates under consideration of the 
Medal, who may or may not ultimately receive the award, would be likely 
to discourage nominations for the Medal.
    Accordingly, I find and determine, pursuant to Section 10(d) of the 
Federal Advisory Committee Act, 5 U.S.C. app. 2, as amended, that the 
July 13, 1999, meeting may be closed to the public in accordance with 
section 552b(c)(9)(B) of Title 5, United States Code because revealing 
information about Medal candidates would like to significantly 
frustrate implementation of a proposed agency action.
    Due to the closure of the meeting, copies of the minutes of the 
meeting will not be available, however, a copy of the Notice of 
Determination will be available for public inspection and copying in 
the office of Allison Rosenberg, Director, National Medal of 
Technology, 14th and Constitution Avenue, NW, Herbert Hoover Building, 
Room 4226, Washington, DC 20230,
(Ph: 202-482-5572).

    Dated: June 25, 1999.
Kelly H. Carnes,
Deputy Assistant Secretary, Office of Technology Policy.
[FR Doc. 99-16826 Filed 6-30-99; 8:45 am]
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