25366 Federal Register / Vol. 65, No. 84 / Monday, May 1, 2000 / Notices

DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Bureau of Labor Statistics

Business Research Advisory Council;

Notice of Meetings and Agenda

The regular Spring meetings of the

Business Research Advisory Council

and its committees will be held on May

10 and 11, 2000. All of the meetings will

be held in the Conference Center of the

Postal Square Building, 2 Massachusetts

Avenue, NE, Washington, DC.

The Business Research Advisory

Council and its committees advise the

Bureau of Labor Statistics with respect

to technical matters associated with the

Bureau’s programs. Membership

consists of technical officials from

American business and industry.

The schedule and agenda for the

meetings are as follows:

Wednesday, May 10, 2000—Meeting Rooms 9

& 10

10:00–11:30 a.m.—Council Meeting

1. Chairperson’s opening remarks

2. Commissioner Abraham’s address and

discussion

3. Issues related to e-commerce (Deborah

Klein)

1:00–2:30 p.m.—Committee on Employment

and Unemployment Statistics

1. E-commerce

a. Alternative definitions

b. How will the North American Industry

Classification System (NAICS) facilitate

measurement? (John Murphy)

c. Tentative plans for studying aspects of

e-commerce with the Occupational

Employment Statistics (OES) survey and

with a Current Population Survey (CPS)

supplement (Mike McElroy)

d. Considering the OES survey:

(a) What are the measurement issues?

(b) What are the questions they can help

to answer?

2. Overview of our work with payroll

software providers to facilitate

responding to BLS surveys (Mike

Searson)

3. Current Employment Statistics (CES)

sample redesign: initial implementation

scheduled for June 2000 (Question and

answer only) (Pat Getz)

4. Discussion of agenda items for the Fall

2000 meeting

3:00–4:30 p.m.—Committee on Employment

Projections

1. Introductory remarks and overview of

current Office projects (Neal Rosenthal)

2. The Office of Employment Projections

(OEP)

e-commerce project

a. Introduction (Neal Rosenthal)

b. Definitions/approaches/findings (Dan

Hecker and Art Andreassen)

c. Use in OEP projections (Norman

Saunders)

3. Discussion of agenda items for the Fall

2000 meeting

Thursday, May 11, 2000—Meeting Rooms 9

& 10

8:30–10:00 a.m.—Committee Compensation

and Working Working Conditions

1. Stock options incidence test:

preliminary results (Janine Bjurman)

2. Technology interactions with BLS:

suggestions, recommendations (Dave

Larson)

3. Other business (Dan Gilbert and Dave

Larson)

4. Discussion of agenda items for the Fall

2000 meeting

10:30–12:00 p.m.—Committee on Price

Indexes

1. Update on program developments

a. Consumer Price Index

b. International Price Indexes

c. Producer Price Indexes

2. Discussion of agenda items for the Fall

meeting

1:30 p.m.–3:00 p.m.—Committee on

Productivity and Foreign Labor Statistics

1. E-commerce and productivity

measurement

2. International comparisons of Gross

Domestic Product (GDP) and

productivity

3. Effects of recent methodological changes

on productivity data

4. Discussion of agenda items for the Fall

2000 meeting

1:30–3:00 p.m. Committee on Occupational

Safety, Health and Working Conditions

(Concurrent Session)

1. Review of industry summary data from

the 1998 Survey of Occupational Injuries

and Illnesses

2. Review of worker demographic and case

circumstances data from the 1998 Survey

of Occupational Injuries and Illnesses

3. 1998 Injury and Illnesses Profiles system

4. Review of data on musculoskeletal

injuries and illnesses

5. Report on toxicology studies on workers

fatally injured in 1998

6. E-commerce implications for

occupational safety and health

information

7. Discussion of agenda items for the Fall

2000 meeting

The meetings are open to the public.

Persons with disabilities and those

wishing to attend these meetings as

observers should contact Tracy Jack,

Liaison for BRAC, Bureau of Labor

Statistics, at (202) 691–5869, for

appropriate accommodations.

Signed at Washington, DC the 24th day of

April 2000.

Katharine G. Abraham,

Commissioner.

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NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND

SPACE ADMINISTRATION

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NASA Advisory Council (NAC), Task

Force on International Space Station

Operational Readiness; Meeting

AGENCY: National Aeronautics and

Space Administration.

ACTION: Notice of meeting.

SUMMARY: In accordance with the

Federal Advisory Committee Act, Pub.

L. 92–463, as amended, the National

Aeronautics and Space Administration

announces an open meeting of the NAC

Task Force on International Space

Station Operational Readiness (IOR).

DATES: Thursday, May 11, 2000, 1

p.m.—2 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time.

ADDRESSES: NASA Headquarters, 300 E

Street, SW, Room 7W31, Washington,

DC 20546.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr.

Philip Cleary, Code IH, National

Aeronautics and Space Administration,

Washington, DC 20546–0001, 202/358–

4461.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This

meeting will be open to the public up

to the seating capacity of the room. The

agenda for the meeting is as follows:

—Review the status of the fact-finding

meetings conducted by the IOR Task

Force and the Russian Aviation and

Space Agency (Utkin) Advisory

Expert Council held April 24–28,

2000, at the Kennedy Space Center,

Florida and the Johnson Space Center,

Texas. The agenda will include the

areas of Proton Launch Vehicle

Update; Service Module Status, and;

Mission Control Center—Moscow and

Ground Readiness. Additional

subjects will be ISS Air Quality; ISS

Acoustics; ISS Treadmill with

Vibration Isolation System (TVIS 2),

and; Crew Training Status.

It is imperative that the meeting be

held on this date to accommodate the

scheduling priorities of the key

participants. Visitors will be requested

to sign a visitors register.

Dated: April 24, 2000.

Mathew M. Crouch,

Advisory Committee Management Officer,

National Aeronautics and Space

Administration.

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