[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 97 (Wednesday, May 20, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Page 27708]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-13427]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

National Institute of Standards and Technology


Visiting Committee on Advanced Technology; Meeting

AGENCY: National Institute of Standards and Technology, Department of 
Commerce.

ACTION: Notice of partially closed meeting.

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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, June 9, 1998 from 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.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. The agenda will include an update on NIST programs, NIST 
Planning for International Standards and Recent Developments in 
international Standards, the Manufacturing Extension Partnership, and a 
laboratory tour. Discussions scheduled to begin at 8:30 a.m. and to end 
at 9:10 a.m. on June 9, 1998, on staffing of management positions at 
NIST and the NIST budget, including funding levels of the Advanced 
Technology Program and the Manufacturing Extension Partnership 
scheduled to begin at 4:30 p.m. and to end at 5 p.m. on June 9, 1998, 
will be closed.

DATES: The meeting will convene June 9, 1998, at 8:30 a.m. and will 
adjourn at 5 p.m. on June 9, 1998.

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 
February 13, 1998, 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 meetings 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: May 14, 1998.
Robert E. Hebner,
Acting Deputy Director.
[FR Doc. 98-13427 Filed 5-19-98; 8:45 am]
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