[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 165 (Thursday, August 26, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Pages 46656-46657]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-22218]


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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, September 14, 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 an update on NIST programs; Update on 
the Manufacturing Extension Partnership; Chemical Science and 
Technology Laboratory's Thermophysical Properties Standard Reference 
Data Dissemination; a laboratory tour of the Materials Science and 
Engineering Laboratory's Welding R&D Program; Electronic and Electrical 
Engineering Laboratory's Future Directions in Metrology for the 
Magnetic Recording Industry and RF and Antenna Measurements; and 
Physics Laboratory's Short Pulse Lasers and the Laser ``Ruler''.
    Discussions scheduled to begin at 8:15 a.m. and to end at 9:15 a.m. 
on September 14, 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 September 14, 1999, at 8:15 a.m. and

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will adjourn at 5:30 p.m. on September 14, 1999.

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

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 Acting Chief Financial Officer and 
Assistant Secretary for Administration, with the concurrence of the 
General Counsel, formally determined on July 15, 1999, that portions of 
the meeting of the Visiting Committee on Advanced Technology which 
involved 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: August 17, 1999.
Karen H. Brown,
Deputy Director.
[FR Doc. 99-22218 Filed 8-25-99; 8:45 am]
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