[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 97 (Thursday, May 18, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Pages 31519-31520]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-12442]


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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, June 6, 2000 from 8:15 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. and Wednesday, 
June 7, 2000 from 8 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. The Visiting Committee on 
Advanced Technology is composed of fourteen 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; a presentation by one of the Visiting 
Committee members on Engineering Materials for Technological 
Applications; an indepth review of the Information Technology 
Laboratory; an indepth review of the Baldridge National Quality 
Program; an indepth review of the Electronics and Electrical 
Engineering Laboratory; and a laboratory tour. Discussions scheduled to 
begin at 8 a.m. and to end at 12:15 p.m. on June 7, 2000, on staffing 
of management positions at NIST, the NIST budget, including funding 
levels of the Advanced Technology Program and the Manufacturing 
Extension Partnership, and feedback sessions will be closed.

DATES: The meeting will convene June 6, 2000 at 8:15 a.m. and will 
adjourn at 12:15 p.m. on June 7, 2000.

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 
July 15, 1999, 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.


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    Dated: May 10, 2000.
Raymond G. Kammer,
Director.
[FR Doc. 00-12442 Filed 5-17-00; 8:45 am]
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