[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 198 (Friday, October 12, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Page 52112]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-25745]



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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

National Institute of Standards and Technology

[Docket No.: 010910225-1225-01]


Notice of Intent To Modernize the Existing FORTRAN Content 
Management System of the ACerS-NIST Phase Equilibria for Ceramics 
Database.

AGENCY: National Institute of Standards and Technology, Commerce.

ACTION: Notice and request for comments.

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SUMMARY: The National Institute of Standards and Technology announces 
its intent to provide technical assistance to the American Ceramic 
Society Inc. (ACerS) to update the current FORTRAN Content Management 
System (CMS) system that provides users with access to the NIST-ACerS 
Phase Equilibria for Ceramics database. The updated CMS system will 
provide users with improved access to the database. Interested parties 
are invited to submit comments to the address below. Work on the 
project will not begin until after the comment period ends.

DATES: Comments must be received by November 13, 2001.

ADDRESSES: Comments should be sent to the attention of Stephen Freiman 
at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, Mail Stop 8520, 
100 Bureau Drive, Gaithersburg, MD, 20899-8520.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Stephen Freiman by writing to the 
above address or by e-mail at [email protected] or by telephone 
at (301) 975-6119.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: As part of its responsibilities under Title 
15 U.S.C. 290 to collect, evaluate and publish high quality Standard 
Reference Data (SRD), NIST creates and maintains SRD databases. NIST 
intends to work with the American Ceramic Society, Inc. in their effort 
to modernize AcerS software that delivers critically evaluated phase 
equilibrium data for ceramic and other inorganic materials. NIST will 
provide technical assistance to identify appropriate scientific, 
mathematical, analytical and display algorithms for implementation in 
the new AcerS software. NIST will also provide documentation on 
existing related NIST algorithms and will verify proposed new 
algorithms for scientific and computational correctness and accuracy. 
All work done by NIST scientists will be on NIST premises. Interested 
parties are invited to submit comments.

    Dated: October 5, 2001.
Karen H. Brown,
Deputy Director.
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