[Federal Register Volume 67, Number 160 (Monday, August 19, 2002)]
[Notices]
[Pages 53779-53780]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 02-21020]


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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, September 10, 2002, from 8:25 a.m. to 5:15 p.m. and 
Wednesday, September 11, 2002, from 8:25 a.m. to Noon. The Visiting 
Committee on Advanced Technology is composed of twelve 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, an Overview of NRC 
Board on Assessment FY 2002 Evaluation of NIST Labs, an Overview of 
JILA and Tours of NIST technical programs at JILA. Discussions 
scheduled to begin at 10:45 a.m. and to end at 11:45 a.m. and to begin 
at 2:30 p.m. and end at 4 p.m., on September 10, 2002, and to begin at 
8:25 a.m. and to end at Noon on September 11, 2002, on strategic 
implications of near-term budget, programmatic issues and facilities, 
responses to near-term strategic environment for NIST, near-term 
strategic environment for peoples issues, and feedback sessions will be 
closed. All visitors to the National Institute of Standards and 
Technology site will have to pre-register to be admitted. Please submit 
your name, time of arrival, email address and phone number to Carolyn 
Peters no later than Thursday, September 5, 2002, and she will provide 
you with instructions for admittance. Ms. Peter's e-mail address is 
[email protected] and her phone number is 301/975-5607.

DATES: The meeting will convene September 10, 2002 at 8:25 a.m. and 
will adjourn at Noon on September 11, 2002.

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held in the Radio Building, Room 1107 
(seating capacity 60, includes 35 participants), at NIST, Boulder, 
Colorado. Please note admittance instructions under SUMMARY paragraph.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Carolyn J. Peters, Visiting Committee 
on Advanced Technology, National Institute of Standards and Technology, 
Gaithersburg, Maryland 20899-1004, telephone number (301) 975-5607.

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 levels 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

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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: August 13, 2002.
Arden L. Bement, Jr.,
Director.
[FR Doc. 02-21020 Filed 8-16-02; 8:45 am]
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