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seats will be available for the public and

media.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr.

Edward Roback, Board Secretariat,

Information Technology Laboratory,

National Institute of Standards and

Technology, 100 Bureau Drive, Stop

8930, Gaithersburg, MD 20899–8930,

telephone: (301) 975–3696.

Dated: November 15, 2000.

Karen H. Brown,

Deputy Director, NIST.

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BILLING CODE 3510–CN–M

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

National Institute of Standards and

Technology

Malcolm Baldrige in 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 Monday, December 4,

2000. The Board of Overseers is

composed of eleven members prominent

in the field of quality management 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:

Overview of the 2000 Baldrige Cycle,

Report from the Judges’ Panel, Program

Status and Plans for 2001, Discussion of

International Quality Award Meeting,

Discussion of Plans/Issues and

Development of Recommendations.

DATES: The meeting will convene

December 4, 2000, at 8:30 a.m. and

adjourn at 3:30 p.m. on December 4,

2000.

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at

the National Institute of Standards and

Technology, Chemistry Building, Red

Room, 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.

Dated: November 15, 2000.

Karen H. Brown,

Deputy Director.

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BILLING CODE 3510–13–M

COMMITTEE FOR THE

IMPLEMENTATION OF TEXTILE

AGREEMENTS

Announcement of Import Restraint

Limits for Certain Cotton, Man-Made

Fiber, Silk Blend and Other Vegetable

Fiber Textiles and Textile Products

Produced or Manufactured in

Bangladesh

November 15, 2000.

AGENCY: Committee for the

Implementation of Textile Agreements

(CITA).

ACTION: Issuing a directive to the

Commissioner of Customs establishing

limits.

EFFECTIVE DATE: January 1, 2001.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ross

Arnold, International Trade Specialist,

Office of Textiles and Apparel, U.S.

Department of Commerce, (202) 482–

4212. For information on the quota

status of these limits, refer to the Quota

Status Reports posted on the bulletin

boards of each Customs port, call (202)

927–5850, or refer to the U.S. Customs

website at http://www.customs.gov. For

information on embargoes and quota reopenings, call (202) 482–3715.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Authority: Section 204 of the Agricultural

Act of 1956, as amended (7 U.S.C. 1854);

Executive Order 11651 of March 3, 1972, as

amended.

The import restraint limits for textile

products, produced or manufactured in

Bangladesh and exported during the

period January 1, 2001 through

December 31, 2001 are based on the

limits notified to the Textiles

Monitoring Body pursuant to the

Uruguay Round Agreement on Textiles

and Clothing (ATC).

In the letter published below, the

Chairman of CITA directs the

Commissioner of Customs to establish

the limits for the 2001 period. The 2001

limits have been reduced for

carryforward applied to the 2000 limits.

A description of the textile and

apparel categories in terms of HTS

numbers is available in the

CORRELATION: Textile and Apparel

Categories with the Harmonized Tariff

Schedule of the United States (see

Federal Register notice 64 FR 71982,

published on December 22, 1999).

Information regarding the 2001

CORRELATION will be published in the

Federal Register at a later date.

Richard B. Steinkamp,

Chairman, Committee for the Implementation

of Textile Agreements.

Committee for the Implementation of Textile

Agreements

November 15, 2000.

Commissioner of Customs,

Department of the Treasury, Washington, DC

20229.

Dear Commissioner: Pursuant to Section

204 of the Agricultural Act of 1956, as

amended (7 U.S.C. 1854); Executive Order

11651 of March 3, 1972, as amended; and the

Uruguay Round Agreement on Textiles and

Clothing (ATC), you are directed to prohibit,

effective on January 1, 2001, entry into the

United States for consumption and

withdrawal from warehouse for consumption

of cotton, man-made fiber, silk blend and

other vegetable fiber textile products in the

following categories, produced or

manufactured in Bangladesh and exported

during the twelve-month period beginning on

January 1, 2001 and extending through

December 31, 2001, in excess of the following

levels of restraint:

Category Twelve-month restraint

limit

237 ........................... 613,318 dozen.

331 ........................... 1,553,816 dozen pairs.

334 ........................... 187,110 dozen.

335 ........................... 335,956 dozen.

336/636 .................... 601,200 dozen.

338/339 .................... 1,741,614 dozen.

340/640 .................... 3,937,027 dozen.

341 ........................... 3,261,471 dozen.

342/642 .................... 564,285 dozen.

347/348 .................... 2,935,322 dozen.

351/651 .................... 896,202 dozen.

352/652 .................... 13,370,404 dozen.

363 ........................... 33,405,188 numbers.

369–S1 .................... 2,239,174 kilograms.

634 ........................... 654,609 dozen.

635 ........................... 424,110 dozen.

638/639 .................... 2,208,685 dozen.

641 ........................... 1,365,669 dozen.

645/646 .................... 518,685 dozen.

647/648 .................... 1,846,116 dozen.

847 ........................... 980,219 dozen.

1 Category 369–S: only HTS number

6307.10.2005.

The limits set forth above are subject to

adjustment pursuant to the provisions of the

ATC and administrative arrangements

notified to the Textiles Monitoring Body.

Products in the above categories exported

during 2000 shall be charged to the

applicable category limits for that year (see

directive dated December 1, 1999) to the

extent of any unfilled balances. In the event

the limits established for that period have

been exhausted by previous entries, such

products shall be charged to the limits set

forth in this directive.

The Committee for the Implementation of

Textile Agreements has determined that

these actions fall within the foreign affairs