Federal Register / Vol. 61, No. 112 / Monday, June 10, 1996 / Notices 29431

SUMMARY: In accordance with the

Federal Advisory Committee Act, Pub.

L. 92–463, as amended, the National

Aeronautics and Space Administration

announces a meeting of the NASA

Advisory Council, Bion Task Force.

DATES: July 1, 1996, 8:30 a.m. to 5:00

p.m.

ADDRESSES: National Aeronautics and

Space Administration Headquarters, 300

E Street, SW., MIC 6 A & B, Washington,

DC 20546.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Dr. Frank Sulzman, Code UL, National

Aeronautics and Space Administration,

Washington, DC 20546, 202/358–0200.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The

meeting will be open to the public up

to the seating capacity of the room and

public comment will be allowed during

designated discussion periods. The

agenda for the meeting is:

—Welcome & Opening Remarks

—Charge to Committee

—Bion Overview

—Discussion

—Science Integrity Presentations

—Animal Welfare Presentations

—Sub-group Splinter Sessions

—Sub-group Reports

—Discussion

It is imperative that the meeting be

held on these dates to accommodate the

scheduling priorities of the key

participants. Visitors will be required to

sign a visitor’s register.

Dated: June 5, 1996.

Leslie M. Nolan,

Advisory Committee Management Officer,

National Aeronautics and Space

Administration.

[FR Doc. 96–14626 Filed 6–7–96; 8:45 am]

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[Notice (96–060)]

NASA Advisory Council, Minority

Business Resource Advisory

Committee Meeting

AGENCY: National Aeronautics and

Space Administration.

ACTION: Notice of meeting.

SUMMARY: In accordance with the

Federal Advisory Committee Act, Public

Law 92–463, as amended, the National

Aeronautics and Space Administration

announces a forthcoming meeting of the

NASA Advisory Council, Minority

Business Resource Advisory Committee.

DATES: June 27, 1996, 9:00 a.m. to 4:00

p.m.

ADDRESSES: NASA Headquarters Room

9H40 (9th Floor Program Review

Center), 300 E Street SW., Washington,

DC 20546.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr.

Ralph C. Thomas, III, Office of Small

and Disadvantaged Business Utilization,

National Aeronautics and Space

Administration, Room 9K70, 300 E

Street SW, Washington, DC 20546, (202)

358–2088.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The

meeting will be open to the public up

to the seating capacity of the room. The

agenda for the meeting is as follows:

—Call to Order

—Reading of Minutes

—Update on NASA SDB Program

—Report from the Chairman

—Public Comment

—Proposed MBRAC Recommendations

—Subcommittee Reports

—New Business

—Adjourn

It is imperative that the meeting be

held on this date to accommodate the

scheduling priorities of the key

participants. Visitors will be requested

to sign a visitor’s register.

Dated: June 5, 1996.

Leslie M. Nolan,

Advisory Committee Management Officer,

National Aeronautics and Space

Administration.

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NATIONAL COUNCIL ON DISABILITY

Sunshine Act Meeting

AGENCY: National Council on Disability.

SUMMARY: This notice sets forth the

schedule and proposed agenda of the

forthcoming quarterly meeting of the

National Council on Disability. Notice

of this meeting is required under

Section 522b(e)(1) of the Government in

the Sunshine Act, (P.L. 94–409).

DATES: July 24–26, 1996, 8:30 a.m. to

5:00 p.m.

LOCATION: President’s Committee on

Employment of People with Disabilities,

Training Room, 1331 F Street NW., 3d

Floor, Washington, DC.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Mark S. Quigley, Public Affairs

Specialist, National Council on

Disability, 1331 F Street NW., Suite

1050, Washington, DC 20004–1107;

(202) 272–2004 (Voice), (202) 272–2074

(TT), (202) 272–2022 (Fax);

mquigley@ncd.gov (e-mail).

AGENCY MISSION: The National Council

on Disability is an independent federal

agency led by 15 members appointed by

the President of the United States and

confirmed by the U.S. Senate. The

overall purpose of the National Council

is to promote policies, programs,

practices, and procedures that guarantee

equal opportunity for all people with

disabilities, regardless of the nature of

severity of the disability; and to

empower people with disabilities to

achieve economic self-sufficiency,

independent living, and inclusion and

integration into all aspects of society.

ACCOMMODATIONS: Those needing

interpreters or other accommodations

should notify the National Council on

Disability prior to this meeting.

ENVIRONMENTAL ILLNESS: People with

environmental illness must reduce their

exposure to volatile chemical

substances in order to attend this

meeting. In order to reduce such

exposure, we ask that you not wear

perfumes or scents at the meeting. We

also ask that you smoke only in

designated areas and the privacy of your

room. Smoking is prohibited in the

meeting room and surrounding area.

OPEN MEETING: This quarterly meeting of

the National Council shall be open to

the public.

AGENDA: The proposed agenda includes:

Reports from the Chairperson and the

Executive Director

Committee Meetings and Committee

Reports

National Disability Policy: A Progress

Report Update

Sixth Anniversary of the Americans with

Disabilities Act

Unfinished Business

New Business

Announcements

Adjournment

Records shall be kept of all National

Council proceedings and shall be

available after the meeting for public

inspection at the National Council on

Disability.

Signed in Washington, DC, on June 5,

1996.

Speed Davis,

Acting Executive Director.

[FR Doc. 96–14716 Filed 6–6–96; 12:00 pm]

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NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION

Directorate for Social, Behavioral, and

Economic Sciences; Proposed

Collection Available for Public

Comment: Comments Requested by

August 4, 1996

In compliance with the requirement

of Section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 for

opportunity for public comment on

proposed data collection projects, the

National Science Foundation (NSF) will

publish periodic summaries of proposed
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projects. To request more information

on the proposed project or to obtain a

copy of the data collection plans and

instruments, call the NSF Clearance

Officer on (703) 306–1243.

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 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.

Proposed Project: Separately budgeted

current fund expenditures on research

and development in the sciences and

engineering performed by universities

and colleges and their affiliated

federally funded research and

development centers—A mail survey,

the Survey of Scientific and Engineering

Expenditures at Universities and

Colleges, originated in fiscal year (FY)

1954 and has been conducted annually

since FY 1972. The survey is the

academic expenditure component of the

NSF statistical program that seeks to

‘‘provide a central clearinghouse for the

collection, interpretation, and analysis

of data on the availability of, and the

current and projected need for,

scientific and technical resources in the

United States, and to provide a source

of information for policy formulation by

other agencies of the Federal

government’’ as mandated in the

National Science Foundation Act of

1950. the proposed project will continue

the current survey cycle for three to five

years. The FY 1996 and FY 1997 will be

a statistical sample of approximately

518 institutions and FY 1998 a full

survey population of about 700

institutions. The survey is conducted as

a full survey population every 5 years

and as a statistical sample in each of the

4 intervening years. These institutions

account for over 95 percent of the

Nation’s academic R&D funds. The

survey has provided continuity of

statistics on R&D expenditures by

source of funds and by science &

engineering (S&E) field, with separate

data requested on current fund

expenditures for research equipment by

S&E field. Statistics from the survey are

published in NSF’s annual publication

series Academic Science and

Engineering R&D Expenditures and are

available electronically on the World

Wide Web.

The survey will be mailed primarily

to the administrators at the Institutional

Research Offices. To minimize burden,

institutions are provided with (in

addition to paper copy) an automatic

survey questionnaire (ASQ) diskette,

pre-loaded with the institutions

previous years data and a complete

program for editing and trend checking.

Respondents are encouraged to submit

their response via the ASQ diskette or

electronically via internet.

Approximately 60% responded via ASQ

or electronically to this voluntary

survey in FY 1994 and a total response

rate of 99.6% was obtained. Burden

estimates are as follows:

Total number of institutions Doctorate-granting Masters-granting

Bachelors degree or below

Burden hours

FY 1992 480 ............................... 20.8 hours ..................................... 12.0 hours ..................................... 4.4 hours.

FY 1993 700 ............................... 21.0 hours ..................................... 8.1 hours ....................................... 5.2 hours.

FY 1994 518 ............................... 21.6 hours ..................................... 7.7 hours ....................................... 4.3 hours.

Send comments to Herman Fleming,

Clearance Officer, National Science

Foundation, National Science

Foundation, 4201 Wilson Boulevard,

Suite 485, Arlington, VA 22230. Written

comments should be received by August

4, 1996.

Dated: June 5, 1996.

Herman G. Fleming,

NSF Clearance Officer.

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NATIONAL SKILL STANDARDS

BOARD

Request for Comments; Notice of

Public Hearings

This notice announces the second in

a series of public hearings to stimulate

public dialogue on key issues relevant

to the decision-making of the National

Skill Standards Board (NSSB), and

notifies the public of the dates,

locations, and times of these hearings.

The second round of public hearings

will solicit the public’s views on the

nature, scope, and functions of an ideal

national system of workforce

development, and to determine how

skill standards can enhance that system.

The first series of hearings, held in

April 1996, garnered valuable

information from employers, vocational

educators, parents, professional

associations, union leaders, community

organizations, state government

agencies, teachers, and others. Their

views provided a framework for the

Board’s development of a voluntary

system of skill standards. The National

Skill Standards Board will continue to

develop its policies and approaches by

sharing its preliminary thinking with

the public before the Board’s final

adoption of policies.

Those providing testimony at the

initial set of pubic hearings gave a broad

range of comments on issues relating to

NSSB’s mission, skill standards’

characteristics and uses, existing models

for implementation, the role of

voluntary partnerships, the

identification of occupational clusters,

and high performance/best practice

workplaces. There was unanimous

support for the mission and efforts of

NSSB. There was a general consensus

that the NSSB should: (1) Learn from

existing efforts to avoid reinventing the

wheel; (2) involve all stakeholders in

the process, but employers must lead

the effort; (3) establish standards that

are portable, flexible, integrated with

academic standards and basic

employability skills, and that are

regularly updated; and (4) create a

common lexicon to describe skills and

standards. In addition, although there

was common agreement on the

necessity of clustering tasks or

occupations, there was no consensus on

the best method of clustering. Finally,

there was no consensus on the issue of

how the Board’s work should relate to

the concept of high performance/best

practice workplaces or jobs. Many

agreed that highly skilled jobs are

integral to America’s economic health,

but they urged the Board to not focus

solely on highly skilled jobs but on

those that are most important to the

economy.

Within future public hearings, the

NSSB will solicit public comment on

such topics as:

• Voluntary partnerships.