[Federal Register Volume 67, Number 199 (Tuesday, October 15, 2002)]
[Notices]
[Page 63622]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 02-26131]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

National Institute of Standards and Technology


Advanced Technology Program Advisory Committee

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 Advanced Technology Program Advisory 
Committee, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), will 
meet Tuesday, October 29, 2002, from 8:45 a.m. to 3:45 p.m. The 
Advanced Technology Program Advisory Committee is composed of eight 
members appointed by the Director of NIST; who are eminent in such 
fields as business, research, new product development, engineering, 
education, and management consulting. The purpose of this meeting is to 
review and make recommendations regarding general policy for the 
Advanced Technology Program (ATP), 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 
ATP update, a panel from the international community on technology 
programs, an update on the ATP competition and a presentation on 
emerging knowledge about ATP's impacts on firm behavior, collaboration, 
etc. Discussions scheduled to begin at 8:45 a.m. and to end at 9:50 
a.m. and to begin at 2:30 p.m. and to end at 3:45 p.m. on October 29, 
2002, on the ATP budget issues and staffing of positions 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, October 24, 2002, and she will provide 
you with instructions for admittance. Ms. Peters's email address is 
[email protected] and her phone number is 301/975-5607.

DATES: The meeting will convene October 29, 2002, at 8:45 a.m. and will 
adjourn at 3:45 p.m. on October 29, 2002.

ADDRESS: The meeting will be held at the National Institute of 
Standards and Technology, Administration Building, Lecture Room B, 
Gaithersburg, Maryland 20899. Please note admittance instructions under 
SUMMARY paragraph.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Carolyn J. Peters, 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 3, 2002, that portions of the meeting of the Advanced 
Technology Program Advisory Committee which involve discussion of 
proposed funding of the Advanced Technology 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 
staffing of positions in ATP 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: October 8, 2002.
Arden L. Bement, Jr.,
Director.
[FR Doc. 02-26131 Filed 10-11-02; 8:45 am]
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