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considers the invention a trade secret or

confidential if it is unpatented. The

inventor or submitter also provides a

detailed description of the invention in

accordance with the Guidance for

Submission which accompanies the

Evaluation Request form. The

Evaluation Request must be signed by

the inventor or submitter. The

completed Evaluation Request form and

the inventor’s disclosure are mailed to

the Office of Technology Innovation,

NIST.

III. Data

OMB Number: 0693–0002.

Form Number: NIST–1019.

Type of Review: Regular submission.

Affected Public: Individual inventors

and small technology based businesses.

Estimated Number of Respondents:

750 per year.

Estimated Time Per Response: 10

hours including preparation of the

invention disclosure.

Estimated Total Annual Burden

Hours: 7,500 per year.

Estimated Total Annual Cost to

Respondents: No cost for the submitter

or inventor.

IV. Request for Comments

Comments are invited on: (a) whether

the proposed collection of information

is necessary for the proper performance

of the agency, including whether the

information shall have a practical

utility; (b) the accuracy of the agency’s

estimate of the burden (including hours

and cost) of the proposed collection of

information; (c) ways to enhance the

quality, utility, and clarity of the

information to be collected; and (d)

ways to minimize the burden of the

collection of information on

respondents, including through the use

of automated collection techniques or

other forms of information technology.

Comments submitted in response to

this notice will be summarized and/or

included in the request for OMB

approval of this information collection;

they will also become a matter of public

record.

Dated: August 6, 1997.

Linda Engelmeier,

Departmental Forms Clearance Officer, Office

of Management and Organization.

[FR Doc. 97–21343 Filed 8–12–97; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 3510–13–P

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.

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, September 9, 1997, from

8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., and on

Wednesday, September 10, 1997, from

8:30 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. The Visiting

Committee on Advanced Technology is

composed of fifteen 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. On September 9, 1997, the

agenda will include an update on NIST

programs; presentations on the NIST

facilities program, the National Quality

Program and the Manufacturing

Extension Partnership; discussion of the

Institute budget; and on September 10,

1997, a briefing and laboratory tour of

the National Advanced Manufacturing

Testbed. Discussions on the NIST

budget, including funding levels of the

Manufacturing Extension Partnership

and staffing of management positions at

NIST scheduled to begin at 4:15 p.m.

and to end at 5:00 p.m. on September

9, 1997, will be closed.

DATES: The meeting will convene on

September 9, 1997 at 8:30 a.m. and will

adjourn at 9:30 a.m. on September 10,

1997.

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held in

the Employees Lounge (seating capacity

80, includes 38 participants),

Administration Building, at NIST,

Gaithersburg, Maryland.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Chris E. Kuyatt, Visiting Committee

Executive Director, National Institute of

Standards and Technology,

Gaithersburg, MD 20899, telephone

number (301) 975–6090.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The

Assistant Secretary for Administration,

with the concurrence of the General

Counsel, formally determined on July

25, 1997, that portions of the meeting of

the Visiting Committee on Advanced

Technology which involve discussion of

proposed funding of the Manufacturing

Extension Partnership and the

Advanced Technology Program may be

closed in accordance with 5 U.S.C.

552b(c)(9)(B), because those portions of

the meeting will divulge matters the

premature disclosure of which would be

likely to significantly frustrate

implementation of proposed agency

actions; and that portions of meetings

which involve discussion of the staffing

issues of management and other

positions at NIST may be closed in

accordance with 5 U.S.C. 552b(c)(6),

because divulging information

discussed in those portions of the

meetings is likely to reveal information

of a personal nature where disclosure

would constitute a clearly unwarranted

invasion of personal privacy.

Dated: August 5, 1997.

Elaine Bunten-Mines,

Associate Director.

[FR Doc 97–21337 Filed 8–12–97; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 3510–13–M

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

National Institute of Standards and

Technology

Announcement of an Opportunity To

Join a Cooperative Research and

Development Consortium Concerning

Scanning Capacitance Microscopy

Image-to-Dopant Profile Software and

Metrology Techniques

AGENCY: National Institute of Standards

and Technology, Commerce.

ACTION: Notice of public meeting.

SUMMARY: The National Institute of

Standards and Technology (NIST)

invites interested parties to attend a

meeting on August 20, 1997, to discuss

setting up a cooperative research

consortium. The goal of the consortium

is to develop a user friendly, personalcomputer-based program for converting

scanning capacitance microscopy

images to 2–D dopant profiles.

The program will be within the scope

and confines of The Federal Technology

Transfer Act of 1986 (Pub. L. 99–502, 15

U.S.C. 3710a), which provides federal

laboratories including NIST, with the

authority to enter into cooperative

research agreements with qualified

parties. Under this law, NIST may

contribute personnel, equipment, and
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facilities—but no funds—to the

cooperative research program.

Members will be expected to make a

contribution to the consortium’s efforts

in the form of personnel, data, and/or

funds. This is not a grant program.

DATES: The meeting will take place on

August 20, 1997. Interested parties

should contact NIST to confirm their

interest at the address, telephone

number or FAX number shown below.

ADDRESSES: The meeting will take place

at and inquiries should be sent to Room

A305, Building 225, National Institute

of Standards and Technology,

Gaithersburg, MD 20899–0001.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Joseph J. Kopanski, Telephone: 301–

975–2089; FAX: 301–948–4081.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Scanning

Capacitance Microscopy has moved

steadily from a research topic to an

existing metrology tool in support of

semiconductor fabrication lines.

Because SCM is sensitive to variations

in dopant density it has promise as a

quantitative dopant profiling tool. At

NIST, an experimental SCM has been

constructed and its performance under

controlled operating conditions

quantified. Using various techniques,

NIST can now extract quantitative

dopant profiles from SCM images. The

challenge is to move SCM from a

qualitative imaging technique to a

quantitative dopant profiling tool

meeting the goals for dopant profiling

expressed in the SIA roadmap. A key

step to meeting this challenge will be to

measure and convert to dopant profiles

a variety of real industrial samples and,

therefore, validate the NIST approach

and models used to convert images to

profiles. Through this consortium we

hope to gain access to samples of

interest to industrial users of SCM. By

cross checking against other

measurements of dopant profiles, we

can also determine the range of valid

sample preparation and operating

conditions and the measurable

parameters which describe those

conditions. The result will be a user

friendly, personal-computer-based

program for converting SCM images to

2–D dopant profiles.

Dated: August 5, 1997.

Elaine Bunten-Mines,

Director, Program Office.

[FR Doc. 97–21336 Filed 8–12–97; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 3510–13–M

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

National Oceanic and Atmospheric

Administration

Western Alaska Community

Development Quota (CDQ) Program

ACTION: Proposed collection; comment

request.

SUMMARY: The Department of

Commerce, as part of its continuing

effort to reduce paperwork and

respondent burden, invites the general

public and other Federal agencies to

take this opportunity to comment on

proposed and/or continuing information

collections, as required by the

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995,

Public Law 104–13 (44 U.S.C.

3506(c)(2)(A)).

DATES: Written comments must be

submitted on or before October 14,

1997.

ADDRESSES: Direct all written comments

to Linda Engelmeier, Departmental

Forms Clearance Officer, Department of

Commerce, Room 5327, 14th and

Constitution Avenue, NW, Washington

DC 20230.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Requests for additional information or

copies of the information collection

instrument(s) and instructions should

be directed to Richard Roberts, OFA1x1,

1305 East-West Highway, Silver Spring,

MD 20910 (301–713–3525, ext. 115).

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

I. Abstract

The Western Alaska Community

Development Quota (CDQ) Program was

established to provide participating

communities with a means for starting

or supporting commercial seafood

activities. Participating communities are

allocated a percentage of the catch

quotas for specified fisheries.

Communities must apply for the

program and make periodic reports on

the activities under the program.

II. Method of Collection

Applicants follow requirements

contained in 50 CFR 679. Permit

applications, catch reports, and checkin/check-out reports are made on forms.

III. Data

OMB Number: 0648–0269.

Form Number: None.

Type of Review: Regular Submission.

Affected Public: Not-for-profit

institutions.

Estimated Number of Respondents:

192.

Estimated Time Per Response: 500

hours for proposed Community

Development Plans; 40 hours for annual

reports; 20 hours for annual budget

reports; 8 hours apiece for annual

budget reconciliation reports and

substantial amendments to plans; 4

hours for technical amendments to

plans; 2 hours for permit applications

and catch reports; 10 minutes for checkin and check-out reports and to print

and retain scale printouts; 20 minutes to

report discards on fish tickets; and 2

minutes for notices of off-loading.

Estimated Total Annual Burden

Hours: 3,038.

Estimated Total Annual Cost to

Public: $0—no capital costs are

required.

IV. Request for Comments

Comments are invited on: (a) Whether

the proposed collection of information

is necessary for the proper performance

of the functions of the agency, including

whether the information shall have

practical utility; (b) the accuracy of the

agency’s estimate of the burden

(including hours and cost) of the

proposed collection of information; (c)

ways to enhance the quality, utility, and

clarity of the information to be

collected; and (d) ways to minimize the

burden of the collection of information

on respondents, including through the

use of automated collection techniques

or other forms of information

technology.

Comments submitted in response to

this notice will be summarized and/or

included in the request for OMB

approval of this information collection;

they also will become a matter of public

record.

Dated: August 7, 1997.

Linda Engelmeier,

Departmental Forms Clearance Officer, Office

of Management and Organization.

[FR Doc. 97–21342 Filed 8–12–97; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 3510–22–P

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory

Commission

[Docket No. OA97–613–000]

Arizona Public Service Company;

Notice of Filing

August 7, 1997.

Take notice that on July 9, 1997,

Arizona Public Service Company

tendered for filing its Revised Open

Access Transmission Tariff filed in

Compliance with FERC Order No. 888–

A.

A copy of this filing has been served

on all parties on the Service list.