[Federal Register Volume 67, Number 34 (Wednesday, February 20, 2002)]
[Notices]
[Pages 7670-7671]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 02-4073]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

National Institute of Standards and Technology


Visiting Committee on Advanced Technology Meeting

ACTION: Notice of partially closed meeting--Visiting Committee on 
Advanced Technology.

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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

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Technology, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), will 
meet Tuesday, March 5, 2002, from 8:25 a.m. to 5:15 p.m. and Wednesday, 
March 6, 2002, from 8:15 a.m. to Noon. 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 a NIST 
Update, Grand Challenges--NIST 2010, ATP: Reforms to Strengthen the 
Program, Environmental Health and Safety at NIST, An Update on the 
National Quality Program, MSEL Cross-Cutting Interactions, and Human 
Resource Development. Discussions scheduled to begin at 3:45 p.m. end 
at 5:15 p.m. on March 5, 2002, and to begin at 8:15 a.m. and to end at 
Noon on March 6, 2002, 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 March 5, 2002 at 8:25 a.m. and will 
adjourn at Noon on March 6, 2002.

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held in the Employees Lounge, 
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 
January 16, 2002, 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.

    Dated: February 11, 2002.
Karen H. Brown,
Deputy Director.
[FR Doc. 02-4073 Filed 2-19-02; 8:45 am]
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