[Federal Register Volume 68, Number 42 (Tuesday, March 4, 2003)]
[Notices]
[Pages 10205-10206]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 03-5001]


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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, March 18, 2003, from 8:25 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Wednesday, 
March 19, 2003, from 9 a.m. to noon. The Visiting Committee on Advanced 
Technology is composed of 14 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 update on 
NIST Customer Liaison Function/Industrial Liaison Office, Measuring 
NIST's Economic Impacts, a Homeland Security update, laboratory tours 
of Homeland Security projects, Science and Technology in the FY 2004 
Budget: Congressional and Administration Priorities and Implications of 
Congressional and Administration Science and Technology Priorities for 
NIST. Discussions scheduled to begin at 4 p.m. and to end at 5 p.m. on 
March 18, 2003, and to begin at 9 a.m. and to end at noon on March 19, 
2003, on the NIST budget, planning information and feedback sessions 
will be closed. Agenda may change to accommodate Committee business. 
Final agenda will be posted on Web site. 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, e-mail address

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and phone number to Carolyn Peters no later than Thursday, March 13, 
2003, and she will provide you with instructions for admittance. Mrs. 
Peter's e-mail address is [email protected] and her phone number 
is (301) 975-5607.

DATES: The meeting will convene March 18, 2003, at 8:25 a.m. and will 
adjourn at noon on March 19, 2003.

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held in the Employees Lounge, 
Administration Building, at NIST, Gaithersburg, Maryland. 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 
February 25, 2003, that portions of the meeting of the Visiting 
Committee on Advanced Technology which deal with discussion of 
sensitive budget and planning information that would cause harm to 
third parties if publicly shared be closed in accordance with section 
10(d) of the Federal Advisory Committee Act, 5 U.S.C. app. 2.

    Dated: February 27, 2003.
Arden L. Bement, Jr.,
Director.
[FR Doc. 03-5001 Filed 3-3-03; 8:45 am]
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