[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 221 (Wednesday, November 15, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Pages 68982-68983]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-29162]


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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, December 5, 2000 from 8:15 a.m. to 5:15 p.m. and 
Wednesday, December 6, 2000 from 8 a.m. to 12:45 p.m. The Visiting 
Committee on

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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 entitled, ``The Chemical Industry--Fossil or 
Phoenix?''; an indepth review of the Physics Laboratory; a cross-cut 
review of Patent Policy; a cross-cut review of Microelectronics; and a 
laboratory tour. Discussions scheduled to begin at 4 p.m. and end at 
5:15 p.m. on December 5, 2000 and to being at 8 a.m. and to end at 
12:45 p.m. on December 6, 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 December 5, 2000 at 8:15 a.m. and will 
adjourn at 12:45 p.m. on December 6, 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: Janet R. Russell, Administrative 
Coordinator, Visiting Committee on Advanced Technology, National 
Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD 20899-1004, 
telephone number (301) 975-2107.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Assistant Secretary for Administration, 
with the concurrence of the General Counsel, formally determined on 
July 12, 2000, 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 discussions 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: November 8, 2000.
Karen H. Brown,
Deputy Director.
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