26788 Federal Register / Vol. 72, No. 91 / Friday, May 11, 2007 / Notices 

ACTION: Notice of closed meeting. 

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 Tuesday, June 

5, 2007. The Judges Panel is composed 

of twelve members prominent in the 

fields of quality, innovation, and 

performance excellence and appointed 

by the Secretary of Commerce. The 

purpose of this meeting is to discuss the 

Judging process and Judging process 

changes for 2007; the Judges’ survey of 

applicants; and the Judges’ mentoring 

process. The applications under review 

by Judges contain trade secrets and 

proprietary commercial information 

submitted to the Government in 

confidence. 

DATES: The meeting will convene June 

5, 2007 at 9 a.m. and adjourn at 4:30 

p.m. on June 5, 2007. The entire meeting 

will be closed. 

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at 

the National Institute of Standards and 

Technology, Administration Building, 

Lecture Room A, Gaithersburg, 

Maryland 20899. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dr. 

Harry Hertz, Director, National Quality 

Program, National Institute of Standards 

and Technology, Gaithersburg, 

Maryland 20899, telephone number 

(301) 975–2361. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

Assistant Secretary for Administration, 

with the concurrence of the General 

Counsel, formally determined on 

December 27, 2005, 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 

other organizations 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: May 4, 2007. 

James M. Turner, 

Deputy Director. 

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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

National Institute of Standards and 

Technology 

Malcolm Baldrige National Quality 

Award Board of Overseers 

AGENCY: National Institute of Standards 

and Technology, Department of 

Commerce. 

ACTION: Notice of public meeting. 

SUMMARY: Pursuant to the Federal 

Advisory Committee Act, 5 U.S.C. app. 

2, notice is hereby given that there will 

be a meeting of the Board of Overseers 

of the Malcolm Baldrige National 

Quality Award on June 6, 2007. The 

Board of Overseers is composed of 

eleven members prominent in the fields 

of quality, innovation, and performance 

excellence and appointed by the 

Secretary of Commerce, assembled to 

advise the Secretary of Commerce on 

the conduct of the Baldrige Award. The 

purpose of this meeting is to discuss 

and review information received from 

the National Institute of Standards and 

Technology with the members of the 

Judges Panel of the Malcolm Baldrige 

National Quality Award. The agenda 

will include: Discuss the Award 

Eligibility Rules; Baldrige Improvement 

Panel’s Recommendations to the 

Program and the Baldrige Foundation; 

Oral Feedback for Award Recipients; 

and Formation of Business School 

Deans’ Council. 

DATES: The meeting will convene June 

6, 2007, at 8:30 a.m. and adjourn at 3 

p.m. on June 6, 2007. 

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at 

the National Institute of Standards and 

Technology, Administration Building, 

Lecture Room A, Gaithersburg, 

Maryland 20899. 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 Diane Harrison no 

later than Tuesday, June 5, 2007, and 

she will provide you with instructions 

for admittance. Ms. Harrison’s e-mail 

address is diane.harrison@nist.gov and 

her phone number is (301) 975–2361. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dr. 

Harry Hertz, Director, National Quality 

Program, National Institute of Standards 

and Technology, Gaithersburg, 

Maryland 20899, telephone number 

(301) 975–2361. 

Dated: May 4, 2007. 

James M. Turner, 

Deputy Director. 

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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

National Oceanic and Atmospheric 

Administration 

[I.D. 031507B] 

Draft Programmatic Environmental 

Impact Statement; Seismic Surveys in 

the Beaufort and Chukchi Seas, Alaska 

AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries 

Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and 

Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 

Commerce. 

ACTION: Notice of extension of comment 

period. 

SUMMARY: On April 6, 2007, notice was 

published in the Federal Register that 

NMFS and the Minerals Management 

Service had released for public 

comment a Draft Programmatic 

Environmental Impact Statement (Draft 

PEIS) for Seismic Surveys in the 

Beaufort and Chukchi Seas, Alaska. 

Also, the times, dates, and locations for 

public hearings in order to receive 

comments from the public on the Draft 

PEIS were provided. Based on verbal 

requests during the public hearings and 

two written requests, the comment 

period on this document has been 

extended. 

DATES: Written comments must be 

postmarked by June 29, 2007. 

ADDRESSES: Written comments on the 

Draft PEIS should be addressed to Mr. 

P. Michael Payne, Chief of the Permits, 

Conservation and Education Division, 

Office of Protected Resources, National 

Marine Fisheries Service, 1315 EastWest Highway, Silver Spring, MD 

20910-3225. The mailbox address for 

providing email comments is 

PR1.ALASKAEIS@noaa.gov. Comments 

sent via e-mail, including all 

attachments, must not exceed a 10- 

megabyte file size. 

A copy of the Draft PEIS may be 

obtained by writing to this address or by 

telephoning the contact listed here and 

is also available at: http:// 

www.mms.gov/alaska/. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Kenneth R. Hollingshead, (301)713–

2289, ext 128. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Additional information on the content 

of the Draft PEIS can be found in the 

notice of availability (72 FR 17117, 

April 6, 2007). 

Dated: May 8, 2007. 

Wanda L. Cain, 

Acting Director, Office of Protected Resources, 

National Marine Fisheries Service. 

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