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Council for discussion, in accordance

with the Magnuson- Stevens Fishery

Conservation and Management Act,

those issues may not be the subject of

formal action during this meeting.

Action will be restricted to those issues

specifically identified in the agenda

listed in this notice.

Special Accommodations

This meeting is physically accessible

to people with disabilities. Requests for

sign language interpretation or other

auxiliary aids should be directed to

Joanna Davis at the Council (see

ADDRESSES) at least 5 days prior to the

meeting date.

Dated: June 26, 1998.

Bruce C. Morehead,

Acting Director, Office of Sustainable

Fisheries National Marine Fisheries Service.

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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

National Oceanic and Atmospheric

Administration

[I.D. 062498B]

New England Fishery Management

Council; Public Meetings

AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries

Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and

Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),

Commerce.

ACTION: Notice of a public meeting.

SUMMARY: The New England Fishery

Management Council (Council) is

scheduling a meeting of its Scientific

and Statistical Committee (SSC) to

discuss and evaluate issues related to

sea scallop management in the exclusive

economic zone (EEZ).

Recommendations from this group will

be brought to the full Council for formal

consideration and action, if appropriate.

DATES: The meeting will be held on July

15, 1998.

ADDRESSES: The meetings will be held at

the Holiday Inn, One Newbury Street,

Peabody, MA 01960; telephone: (978)

535–4600.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Paul

J. Howard, Executive Director, New

England Fishery Management Council;

(781) 231–0422.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The SSC

meeting is being convened to evaluate

the scientific information used to

develop management measures under

consideration for inclusion in

Amendment 7 to the Atlantic Sea

Scallop Fishery Management Plan. In

addition, the SSC will evaluate the

biological and statistical data used by

the Council’s Overfishing Definition

Review Panel to define overfishing of

the Atlantic sea scallop resource.

Although other issues not contained

in this agenda may come before this

group for discussion, in accordance

with the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery

Conservation and Management Act,

those issues may not be the subject of

formal action during this meeting.

Action will be restricted to those issues

specifically listed in this notice.

Special Accommodations

This meeting is physically accessible

to people with disabilities. Requests for

sign language interpretation or other

auxiliary aids should be directed to Paul

J. Howard (see ADDRESSES) at least 5

days prior to the meeting date.

Dated: June 26, 1998.

Bruce C. Morehead,

Acting Director, Office of Sustainable

Fisheries, National Marine Fisheries Service.

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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

National Technical Information Service

NTIS Advisory Board Meeting

AGENCY: National Technical Information

Service, Technology Administration,

U.S. 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

National Technical Information Service

Advisory Board (the ‘‘Board’’) will meet

on Wednesday, July 22, 1998, from 8:30

a.m. to 12:30 p.m., and from 1:30 p.m.

to 4:00 p.m. The session from 8:30 a.m.

to 12:30 p.m., will be closed to the

Public.

The Board was established under the

authority of 15 U.S.C. 3704b(c), and was

Chartered on September 15, 1989. The

Board is composed of five members

appointed by the Secretary of Commerce

who are eminent in such fields as

information resources management,

information technology, and library and

information services. The purpose of the

meeting is to review and make

recommendations regarding general

policies and operations of NTIS,

including policies in connection with

fees and charges for its services. The

agenda will include a progress report on

NTIS activities, an update on the

progress of FedWorld, and a discussion

of NTIS’ long range plans. The closed

session discussion is scheduled to begin

at 8:30 a.m. and end at 12:30 p.m. on

July 22, 1998. The session will be closed

because premature disclosure of the

information to be discussed would be

likely to significantly frustrate

implementation of NTIS’ business

plans.

DATES: The meeting will convene on

July 22, 1998, at 8:30 a.m. and adjourn

at 4:00 p.m.

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held in

Room 2029 Sills Building, National

Technical Information Service, 5285

Port Royal Road, Springfield, Virginia

22161.

PUBLIC PARTICIPATION: The meeting will

be open to public participation from

1:30 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. on July 22, 1998.

Approximately thirty minutes will be

set aside on July 22, 1998, for comments

or questions from the public. Seats will

be available for the public and for the

media on a first-come, first-served basis.

Any member of the public may submit

written comments concerning the

Board’s affairs at any time. Copies of the

minutes of the open session meeting

will be available within thirty days of

the meeting from the address given

below.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Linda Lucas, NTIS Advisory Board

Secretary, National Technical

Information Service, 5285 Port Royal

Road, Springfield, Virginia 22161

Telephone: (703) 605–6400; Fax (703)

487–4093.

Dated: July 2, 1998.

Donald W. Corrigan,

Acting Director.

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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE

Department of the Navy

Meetings of the Naval Research

Advisory Committee

AGENCY: Department of the Navy, DOD.

ACTION: Closed meetings.

SUMMARY: The Naval Research Advisory

Committee will meet to discuss basic

and advanced research and technology.

All sessions of the meetings will be

devoted to briefings, discussions and

technical examination of information

related to technology opportunities and

interoperability implications associated

with information transfer and

interaction among systems as well as

between systems, especially among and

between NATO and coalition forces;

emerging technologies and technology-
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enabled methodologies for training

Naval personnel; and vulnerabilities

and deficiencies of the Global

Positioning System on Navy and Marine

Corps platforms and weapons systems.

All sessions of these meetings will be

closed to the public.

DATES: The meetings will be held on

Monday, July 13 through Friday, July

17, 1998 from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.;

and on Monday, July 20 through Friday,

July 24, 1998 from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

ADDRESSES: The meetings will be held at

the Space and Naval Warfare Systems

Center San Diego, 53560 Hull Street,

San Diego, California.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Diane Mason-Muir, Program Director,

Naval Research Advisory Committee,

800 North Quincy Street, Arlington, VA

22217–5660, telephone number: (703)

696–6769.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This

notice of meetings is provided in

accordance with the provisions of the

Federal Advisory Committee Act (5

U.S.C. App. 2). All sessions of the

meetings will be devoted to briefings

and discussions involving technical

examination of information related to

technology opportunities and

interoperability implications associated

with information transfer and

interaction among systems as well as

between systems, especially among and

between NATO and coalition forces;

emerging technologies and technologyenabled methodologies for training

Naval personnel; and vulnerabilities

and deficiencies of the Global

Positioning System on Navy and Marine

Corps platforms and weapons systems.

These briefings and discussions will

contain classified information that is

specifically authorized under criteria

established by Executive Order to be

kept secret in the interest of national

defense and are in fact properly

classified pursuant to such Executive

Order. The classified and non-classified

matters to be discussed are so

inextricably intertwined as to preclude

opening any portion of the meetings. In

accordance with 5 U.S.C. App. 2,

section 10(d), the Secretary of the Navy

has determined in writing that the

public interest requires that all sessions

of the meetings be closed to the public

because they will be concerned with

matters listed in 5 U.S.C. section

552b(c)(1).

Dated: June 24, 1998.

Lou Rae Langevin,

LT, JAGC, USN, Alternate Federal Register

Liaison Officer.

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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE

Department of the Navy

Notice of Intent to Grant Exclusive

License; Unifinancial International, Inc.

AGENCY: Department of the Navy, DOD.

ACTION: Notice.

SUMMARY: The Department of the Navy

hereby gives notice of its intent to grant

to Unifinancial International, Inc. a

revocable, nonassignable, exclusive

license in the United States to practice

these Government owned inventions in

all fields of use except contaminated

plastic waste abatement on commercial

ocean-going vessels, as described in:

U.S. Patent Number 5,489,200 entitled

Compress/Melt Processor for

Contaminated Plastic Waste

U.S. Patent Number 5,411,697 entitled

Method for Processing Contaminated

Plastic Waste

U.S. Patent Number 5,488,278 entitled

Load Limit System for Mechanical

Linear Actuator

DATES: Anyone wishing to object to the

grant of this license must file written

objections along with supporting

evidence, if any, not later than August

31, 1998.

ADDRESSES: Written objections are to be

filed with the Carderock Division, Naval

Surface Warfare Center, Code 004, 9500

MacArthur Blvd., West Bethesda, MD

20817–5700.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr.

Dick Bloomquist, Director Technology

Transfer, Carderock Division, Naval

Surface Warfare Center, Code 0117,

9500 MacArthur Blvd., Bethesda, MD

20817–5700, telephone (301) 227–4229.

Dated: June 23, 1998.

Lou Rae Langevin,

LT, JAGC, USN, Alternate Federal Register

Liaison Officer.

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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

National Assessment Governing

Board; Meeting

AGENCY: National Assessment

Governing Board; Education.

ACTION: Notice of Teleconference.

SUMMARY: This notice sets forth the

schedule and proposed agenda of a

forthcoming teleconference of the

Design and Methodology Committee of

the National Assessment Governing

Board. This notice also describes the

functions of the Board. Notice of this

meeting is required under Section

10(a)(2) of the Federal Advisory

Committee Act.

Date: July 24, 1998.

Time: 11:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m.

Location: National Assessment

Governing Board, 800 North Capitol

Street, N.W., Washington, DC.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Mary Ann Wilmer, Operations Officer,

National Assessment Governing Board,

Suite 825, 800 North Capitol Street,

N.W., Washington, D.C., 20002–4233,

Telephone: (202) 357–6938.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The

National Assessment Governing Board

is established under section 412 of the

National Education Statistics Act of

1994 (Title IV of the Improving

America’a Schools Act of 1994), (Pub. L.

103–382).

The Board is established to formulate

policy guidelines for the National

Assessment of Educational Progress.

The Board is responsible for selecting

subject areas to be assessed, developing

assessment objectives, identifying

appropriate achievement goals for each

grade and subject tested, and

establishing standards and procedures

for interstate and national comparisons.

Under P.L. 205–78, the National

Assessment Governing Board is also

granted exclusive authority over

developing Voluntary National Tests

pursuant to contract number

RJ97153001

On July 24, in open session, 11:00

a.m. to 1:00 p.m., the Design and

Methodology Committee will meet to

review and approve the final pilot test

design and sampling plan for the

Voluntary National Tests in accordance

with the prospective authority given to

the Committee by the Board at its May

meeting.

Records are kept of all Board

proceedings and are available for public

inspection at the U.S. Department of

Education, National Assessment

Governing Board, Suite 825, 800 North

Capitol Street, N.W., Washington, D.C.,

from 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Roy Truby,

Executive Director, National Assessment

Governing Board.

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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

National Assessment Governing

Board; Meeting

AGENCY: National Assessment

Governing Board; Education.

ACTION: Notice of teleconference.