9034 Federal Register / Vol. 72, No. 39 / Wednesday, February 28, 2007 / Notices 

NATIONAL FOUNDATION ON THE 

ARTS AND THE HUMANITIES 

National Endowment for the Arts; 

Federal Advisory Committee on 

International Exhibitions 

Pursuant to Section 10(a)(2) of the 

Federal Advisory Committee Act (Public 

Law 92–463), as amended, notice is 

hereby given that a meeting of the 

Federal Advisory Committee on 

International Exhibitions will be held by 

teleconference on March 13, 2007 from 

the Nancy Hanks Center, 1100 

Pennsylvania Avenue, NW., 

Washington, DC 20506. The meeting, for 

the purpose of application review, will 

take place from 3 p.m.–4:30 p.m. 

(ending time is approximate), and will 

be closed. 

The closed portions of meetings are 

for the purpose of Panel review, 

discussion, evaluation, and 

recommendations on financial 

assistance under the National 

Foundation on the Arts and the 

Humanities Act of 1965, as amended, 

including information given in 

confidence to the agency. In accordance 

with the determination of the Chairman 

of February 16, 2007, these sessions will 

be closed to the public pursuant to 

subsection (c)(6) of section 552b of Title 

5, United States Code. 

Further information with reference to 

these meetings can be obtained from Ms. 

Kathy Plowitz-Worden, Office of 

Guidelines & Panel Operations, National 

Endowment for the Arts, Washington, 

DC 20506, or call 202/682–5691. 

Dated: February 21, 2007. 

Kathy Plowitz-Worden, 

Panel Coordinator, Panel Operations, 

National Endowment for the Arts. 

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NATIONAL FOUNDATION ON THE 

ARTS AND THE HUMANITIES 

National Endowment for the Arts; 

Determination of the Chairperson of 

the National Endowment for the Arts 

as to Certain Advisory Committees: 

Public Disclosure of Information and 

Activities 

The National Endowment for the Arts 

utilizes advice and recommendations of 

advisory committees in carrying out 

many of its functions and activities. 

The Federal Advisory Committee Act, 

as amended (Pub. L. 92–463), governs 

the formation, use, conduct, 

management, and accessibility to the 

public of committees formed to advise 

and assist the Federal Government. 

Section 10 of the Act specifies that 

department and agency heads shall 

make adequate provisions for 

participation by the public in the 

activities of advisory committees, except 

to the extent a determination is made in 

writing by the department or agency 

head that a portion of an advisory 

committee meeting may be closed to the 

public in accordance with subsection (c) 

of section 552b of Title 5, United States 

Code (the Government in the Sunshine 

Act). 

It is the policy of the National 

Endowment for the Arts to make the 

fullest possible disclosure of records to 

the public, limited only by obligations 

of confidentiality and administrative 

necessity. Consistent with this policy, 

meetings of the following Endowment 

advisory committees will be open to the 

public except for portions dealing with 

the review, discussion, evaluation, and/ 

or ranking of grant applications: Arts 

Advisory Panel and the Federal 

Advisory Committee on International 

Exhibitions. 

The portions of the meetings 

involving the review, discussion, 

evaluation and ranking of grant 

applications may be closed to the public 

for the following reasons: 

The Endowment Advisory 

Committees listed above review and 

discuss applications for financial 

assistance. While the majority of 

applications received by the agency are 

submitted by organizations, all of the 

applications contain the names of and 

personal information relating to 

individuals who will be working on the 

proposed project. In reviewing the 

applications, committee members 

discuss the abilities of the listed 

individuals in their fields, the 

reputations of the listed individuals 

among their colleagues, the ability of the 

listed individuals to carry through on 

projects they start, and their background 

and performance. Consideration of these 

matters is essential to the review of the 

artistic excellence and artistic merit of 

an application. 

Consequently, in the interest of 

meeting our obligation to consider 

artistic excellence and artistic merit 

when reviewing applications for 

financial assistance: 

It is hereby determined in accordance 

with the provisions of section 10(d) of 

the Act that the disclosure of 

information regarding the review, 

discussion, and evaluation of 

applications for financial assistance as 

outlined herein is likely to disclose 

information of a personal nature the 

disclosure of which would constitute a 

clearly unwarranted invasion of 

personal privacy. 

Therefore, in light of the above, I have 

determined that the above referenced 

meetings or portions thereof, devoted to 

review, discussion, evaluation, and/or 

ranking of applications for financial 

assistance may be closed to the public 

in accordance with subsection (c)(6) of 

section 552b of Title 5, United States 

Code. 

The staff of each committee shall 

prepare a summary of any meeting or 

portion not open to the public within 

three (3) business days following the 

conclusion of the meeting of the 

National Council on the Arts 

considering applications recommended 

by such committees. The summaries 

shall be consistent with the 

considerations that justified the closing 

of the meetings. 

All other portions of the meetings of 

these advisory committees shall be open 

to the public unless the Chairperson of 

the National Endowment for the Arts or 

a designee determines otherwise in 

accordance with section 10(d) of the 

Act. 

The Panel Coordinator shall be 

responsible for publication in the 

Federal Register or, as appropriate, in 

local media, of a notice of all advisory 

committee meetings. Such notice shall 

be published in advance of the meetings 

and contain: 

1. Name of the committee and its 

purposes; 

2. Date and time of the meeting, and, 

if the meeting is open to the public, its 

location and agenda; and 

3. A statement that the meeting is 

open to the public, or, if the meeting or 

any portion thereof is not to be open to 

the public, a statement to that effect. 

The Panel Coordinator is designated 

as the person from whom lists of 

committee members may be obtained 

and from whom minutes of open 

meetings or open portions thereof may 

be requested. 

Guidelines 

Any interested person may attend 

meetings of advisory committees that 

are open to the public. 

Members of the public attending a 

meeting will be permitted to participate 

in the committee’s discussion at the 

discretion of the chairperson of the 

committee, if the chairperson is a fulltime Federal employee; if the 

chairperson is not a full-time Federal 

employee then public participation will 

be permitted at the chairperson’s 

discretion with the approval of the fulltime Federal employee in attendance at 

the meeting in compliance with the 

order. 


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