[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 32 (Wednesday, February 16, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Pages 7896-7897]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-3579]


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NATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS AND THE HUMANITIES


National Endowment for the Arts; National Council on the Arts 
139th Meeting

    Pursuant to section 10(a)(2) of the Federal Advisory Committee Act 
(Public Law 92-463), as amended, notice is hereby given that a meeting 
of the National Council on the Arts will be held on Friday, March 3, 
2000 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. in Room M-09 at the Nancy Hanks Center, 100 
Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Washington, D.C. 20506.
    The meeting will be open to the public on a space available basis. 
Following opening remarks and announcements, there will be a 
Congressional update and an update on the FY 2001 budget. Other 
presentations tentatively include: a report from the National Assembly 
of State Arts Agencies, a film on the Mars Project, staff presentations 
on Disability and the Arts and on Arts Education and Folk & Traditional 
Arts, and guest artist presentations by Alana Yvonne Wallace 
(wheelchair dancer) and Willy Conley (deaf playwright). Other topics 
will include Application Review; guidelines for American Jazz Masters 
FY 2002,

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National Heritage Fellowships FY 2001, Folk & Traditional Arts 
Infrastructure Initiative FY 2001, Partnership Agreements FY 2001, and 
Resources for Change: Technology FY 2001; and general discussion.
    If, in the course of discussion, if becomes necessary for the 
Council to discuss non-public commercial or financial information of 
intrinsic value, the Council will go into closed session pursuant to 
subsection (c)(4) of the Government in the Sunshine Act, 5 U.S.C. 552b. 
Additionally, discussion concerning purely personal information about 
individuals, submitted with grant applications, such as personal 
biographical and salary data or medical information, may be conducted 
by the Council in closed session in accordance with subsection (c)(6) 
of U.S.C. 552b.
    Any interested persons may attend, as observers, Council 
discussions and reviews which are open to the public. If you need 
special accommodations due to a disability, please contact the Office 
of AccessAbility, National Endowment for the Arts, 1100 Pennsylvania 
Avenue, NW, Washington, D.C. 20506, 202/682-5532, TTY-TDD 202/682-5429, 
at least seven (7) days prior to the meeting.
    Further information with reference to this meeting can be obtained 
from the Office of Communications, National Endowment for the Arts, 
Washington, D.C. 20506, at 202/682-5570.

    Dated: January 9, 2000.
Kathy Plowitz-Worden,
Panel Coordinator, Office of Guidelines and Panel Operations.
[FR Doc. 00-3579 Filed 2-15-00; 8:45 am]
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