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U.S. firm with its principal place of

business in the United States) that is

controlled by U.S. citizens or by another

U.S. entity. An entity is not a U.S. entity

if 50 percent plus one share of its stock

(if a corporation, or a similar ownership

interest of an unincorporated entity) is

controlled, directly or indirectly, by

non-U.S. citizens or non-U.S. entities.

Secondary selection criteria will

ensure that the committee has a

balanced representation of the auto

parts industry in terms of point of view,

demographics, geography and company

size. APAC members are selected on the

basis of their experience and knowledge

of conditions and problems in

automotive parts markets. Members will

serve at the discretion of the Secretary.

Private sector members will serve in

a representative capacity presenting the

views and interests of the particular

automotive sector in which they

operate. Private sector members are not

special government employees, and will

receive no compensation for their

participation in APAC activities.

Members participating in APAC

meetings and events will be responsible

for their travel, living and other

personal expenses. Meetings are held

approximately four times a year, usually

in Washington, DC. The next APAC

meeting date has not yet been

determined.

To be considered for membership,

please provide the following: name and

title of the individual requesting

consideration; a letter of

recommendation containing a brief

statement of why each candidate should

be considered for membership on the

APAC that includes the individual’s

export experience, along with a personal

resume; a statement that the applicant is

a not a registered foreign agent under

the Foreign Agents Registration Act of

1938, as amended; the company’s

product or service line and major

markets; and the size and ownership of

the company. All APAC members must

obtain a U.S. Government security

clearance.

Dated: November 17, 2000.

Thomas Sobotta,

Acting Director, Office of Automotive Affairs.

[FR Doc. 00–30585 Filed 11–30–00; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 3510–DR–P

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[C–535–001]

Cotton Shop Towels from Pakistan:

Extension of Time Limit for Preliminary

Results of Countervailing Duty

Administrative Review

AGENCY: Import Administration,

International Trade Administration,

Department of Commerce.

ACTION: Notice of extension of time limit

of preliminary results of review.

SUMMARY: The Department of Commerce

(the Department) is extending the time

limit for the preliminary results of the

administrative review of the

countervailing duty order on cotton

shop towels from Pakistan. This review

covers eleven manufacturers/producers

and the period January 1, 1999, to

December 31, 1999.

EFFECTIVE DATE: December 1, 2000.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Gayle Longest or Mark Young, AD/CVD

Enforcement, Office VI, Group II, Import

Administration, International Trade

Administration, U.S. Department of

Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution

Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20230;

telephone: (202) 482–3338 or (202) 482–

6397, respectively.

Statutory Time Limits

Section 751(a)(3)(A) of the Tariff Act

of 1930 (the Act), as amended, requires

the Department to make a preliminary

determination within 245 days after the

last day of the anniversary month of an

order/finding for which a review is

requested and a final determination

within 120 days after the date on which

the preliminary determination is

published. However, if it is not

practicable to complete the review

within the time period, section

751(a)(3)(A) of the Act allows the

Department to extend the time limit for

the preliminary determination to a

maximum of 365 days and for the final

determination to 180 days (or 300 days

if the Department does not extend the

time limit for the preliminary

determination) from the Date of

publication of the preliminary

determination.

Background

On May 1, 2000, the Department

published a notice of initiation of

administrative review of the

countervailing duty on cotton shop

towels from Pakistan, covering the

period January 1, 1999 through

December 31, 1999 (65 FR 25303). The

preliminary results are currently due no

later than December 1, 2000.

Extension of Time Limit for Preliminary

Results of Review

We determine that it is not practicable

to complete the preliminary results of

this review within the original time

limit. Therefore, the Department is

extending the time limit for completion

of the preliminary results until no later

than March 31, 2001. See Decision

Memorandum from Melissa G. Skinner,

Office Director for AD/CVD Office VI, to

Holly A. Kuga, Acting Deputy Assistant

Secretary, dated concurrently with this

notice, which is on public file in the

Central Records Unit, Room B–099 of

the Department of Commerce. We

intend to issue the final results no later

than 120 days after the publication of

the preliminary results.

This extension is in accordance with

section 751(a)(3)(A) of the Act (19

U.S.C. 1675(a)(3)(A)).

Dated: November 21, 2000.

Holly A. Kuga,

Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for Import

Administration.

[FR Doc. 00–30683 Filed 11–30–00; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 3510–DS–P

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

National Institute of Standards and

Technology

Advanced Technology Program;

Announcement of Public Meeting

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 ‘‘Advanced Technology

Development and Commercialization

Opportunities.’’ The Advanced

Technology Program (ATP) partners

with industry on high-risk, high

technology research in technologies

ranging from advanced manufacturing

to medicine and from advanced

materials to microelectronics. This

conference will bring together

entrepreneurs, researchers, business

specialists and program managers from

business, universities and federal

agencies to discuss R&D funding

opportunities for taking a new product

from the lab to the marketplace. This

meeting is targeted to minority

entrepreneurship.

DATES: The Conference will be held on

December 4–5, 2000. The meeting

begins at 9:00 am on December 4 and

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the meeting adjourns at 12:30 pm on

December 5, 2000.

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at

the Conference Center at Clark Atlanta

University, Atlanta, Georgia.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For

further information, you may telephone

Rex Pelto at (301) 975–3918 or e-mail:

rex.pelto@nist.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The

Omnibus Trade and Competitiveness

Act of 1988 (Public Law 100–418, 15

U.S.C. 278n), amended by the American

Technology Preeminence Act of 1991

(Public Law 102–245), directed the

establishment of ATP. The purpose of

the ATP is to assist United States

businesses to carry out research and

development on high-risk, high-pay-off,

emerging and enabling technologies.

The workshops that will be offered at

this meeting will help bridge each step

along the high-risk technology

development and commercialization

path. In addition, minority

entrepreneurs will present success

stories. A number of federal agencies

will be represented at this meeting, and

corporations and federal agencies will

also be available.

Information on the meeting agenda

and registration requirements can be

found at the following website: http://

www.seeport.com/Conference/

conferences.htm. The registration fee is

$125.00 when received by November 28,

2000. (After November 28, the fee is

$150.00). Registration includes bus

transportation from the hotel to the

university, coffee breaks, lunch and

conference materials.

November 27, 2000.

Karen H. Brown,

Deputy Director.

[FR Doc. 00–30629 Filed 11–30–00; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 3510–13–M

DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE

GENERAL SERVICES

ADMINISTRATION

NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND

SPACE ADMINISTRATION

[OMB Control No. 9000–0090]

Proposed Collection; Comment

Request Entitled Rights in Data and

Copyrights

AGENCIES: Department of Defense (DOD),

General Services Administration (GSA),

and National Aeronautics and Space

Administration (NASA).

ACTION: Notice of request for public

comments regarding an extension to an

existing OMB clearance (9000–0090).

SUMMARY: Under the provisions of the

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44

U.S.C. Chapter 35), the Federal

Acquisition Regulation (FAR)

Secretariat will be submitting to the

Office of Management and Budget

(OMB) a request to review and approve

an extension of a currently approved

information collection requirement

concerning Rights in Data and

Copyrights. The clearance currently

expires on March 31, 2001.

Public comments are particularly

invited on: Whether this collection of

information is necessary for the proper

performance of functions of the FAR,

and whether it will have practical

utility; whether our estimate of the

public burden of this collection of

information is accurate, and based on

valid assumptions and methodology;

ways to enhance the quality, utility, and

clarity of the information to be

collected; and ways in which we can

minimize the burden of the collection of

information on those who are to

respond, through the use of appropriate

technological collection techniques or

other forms of information technology.

DATES: Comments may be submitted on

or before January 30, 2001.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: John

Blumenstein, Federal Acquisition Policy

Division, GSA (202) 501–2373.

ADDRESSES: Comments regarding this

burden estimate or any other aspect of

this collection of information, including

suggestions for reducing this burden,

should be submitted to: FAR Desk

Officer, OMB, Room 10102, NEOB,

Washington, DC 20503, and a copy to

the General Services Administration,

FAR Secretariat, 1800 F Street, NW,

Room 4035, Washington, DC 20405.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

A. Purpose

Rights in Data is a regulation which

concerns the rights of the Government,

and organizations with which the

Government contracts, to information

developed under such contracts. The

delineation of such rights is necessary

in order to protect the contractor’s rights

to not disclose proprietary data and to

insure that data developed with public

funds is available to the public.

The information collection burdens

and recordkeeping requirements

included in this regulation fall into the

following four categories.

(a) A provision which is to be

included in solicitations where the

proposer would identify any proprietary

data he would use during contract

performance in order that the

contracting officer might ascertain if

such proprietary data should be

delivered.

(b) Contract provisions which, in

unusual circumstances, would be

included in a contract and require a

contractor to deliver proprietary data to

the Government for use in evaluation of

work results, or is software to be used

in a Government computer. These

situations would arise only when the

very nature of the contractor’s work is

comprised of limited rights data or

restricted computer software and if the

Government would need to see that data

in order to determine the extent of the

work.

(c) A technical data certification for

major systems, which requires the

contractor to certify that the data

delivered under the contract is

complete, accurate and compliant with

the requirements of the contract. As this

provision is for major systems only, and

few civilian agencies have such major

systems, only about 30 contracts will

involve this certification.

(d) The Additional Data Requirements

clause, which is to be included in all

contracts for experimental,

developmental, research, or

demonstration work (other than basic or

applied research to be performed solely

by a university or college where the

contract amount will be $500,000 or

less). The clause requires that the

contractor keep all data first produced

in the performance of the contract for a

period of three years from the final

acceptance of all items delivered under

the contract. Much of this data will be

in the form of the deliverables provided

to the Government under the contract

(final report, drawings, specifications,

etc.). Some data, however, will be in the

form of computations, preliminary data,

records of experiments, etc., and these

will be the data that will be required to

be kept over and above the deliverables.

The purpose of such recordkeeping

requirements is to insure that the

Government can fully evaluate the

research in order to ascertain future

activities and to insure that the research

was completed and fully reported, as

well as to give the public an opportunity

to assess the research results and secure

any additional information. All data

covered by this clause is unlimited

rights data paid for by the Government.

Paragraph (d) of the Rights in DataGeneral clause outlines a procedure

whereby a contracting officer can

challenge restrictive markings on data

delivered. Under civilian agency

contracts, limited rights data or

restricted computer software is rarely, if