[Federal Register Volume 69, Number 123 (Monday, June 28, 2004)]
[Notices]
[Pages 36063-36064]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 04-14614]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

National Institute of Standards and Technology


Judges Panel of the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award

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 Judges Panel of the Malcolm Baldrige 
National Quality Award will meet Thursday, July 29, 2004. The Judges 
Panel is composed of nine members prominent in the field of quality 
management and appointed by the Secretary of Commerce. The purpose of 
this meeting is to review the stage 1 process, consideration for moving 
applicants forward, review of stage 1 data and selection of applicants 
for consensus, provide guidance for the Examiners on scoring, summary 
of feedback to Judges from the 2003 Team Leaders' calls, new Judge 
mentoring process, evaluation process flowchart enhancements, site 
visit planning improvements, pre-site visit conference call with Team 
Leaders, November meeting process, and summary of Improvement Day. The 
applications under review contain trade secrets and proprietary 
commercial information submitted to the Government in confidence. All 
visitors to the National Institute of Standards and Technology site 
will have to pre-register to be admitted. Anyone wishing to attend this 
meeting must register 48 hours in advance in order to be admitted. 
Please submit your name, time of arrival, e-mail address and phone 
number to Virginia Davis no later than Monday, July 26, 2004, and she 
will provide you with instructions for admittance. Ms. Davis' e-mail 
address is [email protected] and her phone number is 301/975-
2361.

DATES: The meeting will convene July 29, 2004 at 9 a.m. and adjourn at 
4:30 p.m. on July 29, 2004. It is estimated that the closed portion of 
the meeting will last from 9 a.m. until 1 p.m. and the open portion of 
the meeting will last from 1 p.m. until 4:30 p.m.

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at the National Institute of 
Standards and Technology, Building 222, Red Training Room, 
Gaithersburg, Maryland 20899.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dr. Harry Hertz, Director, National 
Quality Program, National Institute of Standards and Technology, 
Gaithersburg,

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Maryland 20899, telephone number (301) 975-2361.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Assistant Secretary for Administration, 
with the concurrence of the General Counsel, formally determined on 
February 7, 2004, that the meeting of the Judges Panel will be closed 
pursuant to Section 10(d) of the Federal Advisory Committee Act, 5 
U.S.C. app. 2, as amended by Section 5(c) of the Government in the 
Sunshine Act, Public Law 94-409. The meeting, which involves 
examination of Award applicant data from U.S. companies and a 
discussion of this data as compared to the Award criteria in order to 
recommend Award recipients, may be closed to the public in accordance 
with Section 552b(c)(4) of Title 5, United States Code, because the 
meetings are likely to disclose trade secrets and commercial or 
financial information obtained from a person which is privileged or 
confidential.

    Dated: June 18, 2004.
Hratch G. Semerjian,
Acting Director.
[FR Doc. 04-14614 Filed 6-25-04; 8:45 am]
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