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and delays in carrying out their 

respective ARRA construction projects; 

thereby, facilitating the timely 

completion and public use of the newlyconstructed scientific research facilities. 

Safety and Security Systems Waiver 

The NIST is hereby issuing a limited, 

program-wide, waiver of the Director 

ARRA Buy American requirements set 

forth in ARRA Section 1605(a) based on 

his determination that, under ARRA 

Section 1605(b)(1), the application of 

the Buy American requirements would 

be inconsistent with the public interest 

as applied to a grant recipient’s use of 

non-domestic manufactured goods 

where such non-domestic goods are 

necessary for the integration and 

operation of the recipient’s ARRA 

construction project to the recipient’s 

existing safety and security systems. 

All of the construction projects 

awarded under the NIST ARRA 

Construction Grant Program are either 

additions to existing buildings or new 

facilities within a campus environment. 

Public universities and other grant 

recipients constructing these projects 

generally employ uniform safety and 

security features that are interoperable 

across the campus, such as integrated 

police, fire alarm and other emergency 

communication systems, security locks, 

access card readers, high-pressure steam 

valves, etc. These common and uniform 

safety and security systems tend to 

greatly enhance the proper functioning 

and availability of these systems as a 

whole; thereby, providing maximum 

protection to persons and property. 

Uniform systems are also generally more 

cost effective for recipients to install, 

monitor and maintain versus multiple 

or mismatched systems across a campus 

environment. Conversely, mismatched 

components are often incompatible and 

extremely difficult or impossible for the 

recipient to properly integrate into 

existing systems due to the differing 

technical specifications, fitments, and 

other interoperability concerns. As a 

result, mismatched components may not 

integrate into existing common security 

or building automation systems, or may 

be more prone to failure, as well as 

being costlier to maintain and repair 

than common systems. The potential for 

these mismatched systems to not 

properly integrate or communicate 

within an existing campus system could 

present imminent life safety concerns. 

Further, while system function and 

interoperability is of primary public 

interest concern, warranty is also a 

consideration in that certain 

manufacturers will not warranty their 

systems if non-specified components or 

components from a specific 

manufacturer are not used. 

It is inconsistent with the public 

interest to increase safety risks to 

persons and casualty losses to property 

in order to comply with the ARRA Buy 

American requirements as they 

specifically apply to grant 

recipients’ (and to their subrecipients’ 

and contractors’) use of non-domestic 

manufactured goods, where such nondomestic goods are necessary for the 

integration and operation of the 

recipient’s ARRA construction project 

into the recipient’s existing safety and 

security systems. Accordingly, NIST’s 

issuance of the Safety and Security 

Systems Waiver is in the public interest 

because it will help ensure that the 

installation, maintenance, 

interoperability, and overall operation 

of safety and security systems 

incorporated into a grant recipient’s 

construction project function properly 

and are otherwise compatible with the 

recipient’s existing systems; thereby, 

providing maximum protection to 

persons and to property. 

Recipient Compliance and NIST 

Monitoring 

Recipients of NIST ARRA 

Construction Grant Program awards 

seeking to utilize the De Minimis 

Waiver and/or the Safety and Security 

Systems Waiver must determine with 

specificity the items to be covered by 

the waiver(s) and must retain complete 

and accurate records and supporting 

documentation, including the types 

and/or categories of items to which this 

waiver is applied and, for incidental 

construction items, the calculations by 

which the grant recipient determined its 

use of non-domestic iron, steel or 

manufactured goods used in the project 

equals five percent or less than the total 

cost of the iron, steel and manufactured 

goods used in the project. The 

recipient’s records will be reviewed 

periodically by NIST as part of its 

ongoing project monitoring and 

oversight functions and, upon request, 

the records must be made available to 

the Department of Commerce Office of 

Inspector General for inspection. 

This SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION

constitutes the detailed written 

justification required by ARRA Section 

1605(c) for waivers based on a public 

interest finding under ARRA Section 

1605(b)(1). The waiver determinations 

set forth herein are being made pursuant 

to the delegation of authority by the 

Secretary of Commerce to the NIST 

Director for projects funded under the 

NIST ARRA Construction Grant 

Program. The NIST Director reserves the 

right to revisit and amend the 

determinations set forth herein based on 

new developments or new information. 

Authority: Section 1605 of the American 

Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, Pub. 

L. 111–5, Section 1605. 

Catalogue of Federal Domestic Assistance 

(CFDA): 11.618, National Institute of 

Standards and Technology Construction 

Grant Program 

Dated: November 4, 2013. 

Kevin Kimball, 

NIST Chief of Staff. 

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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

National Institute of Standards and 

Technology 

National Construction Safety Team 

Advisory Committee Meeting 

AGENCY: National Institute of Standards 

and Technology, Department of 

Commerce. 

ACTION: Notice of open meeting. 

SUMMARY: The National Construction 

Safety Team (NCST) Advisory 

Committee (Committee) will meet on 

Tuesday, December 10, 2013 from 8:30 

a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Eastern time and 

Wednesday, December 11, 2013, from 

8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Eastern time. 

The meeting will be open to the public. 

This meeting was originally scheduled 

for October 15–16, 2013 and was 

rescheduled as a result of the 

government shutdown due to a lapse in 

appropriations. The primary purpose of 

this meeting is to update the Committee 

on the status of the National Institute of 

Standards and Technology (NIST) 

Disaster and Failure Studies Program, 

receive NIST’s response to the 

Committee’s 2012 annual report 

recommendations, update the 

Committee on the progress of the NIST 

Technical Investigation of the May 22, 

2011 Tornado in Joplin, MO, and gather 

information for the Committee’s 2013 

Annual Report to Congress. The agenda 

may change to accommodate Committee 

business. The final agenda will be 

posted on the NIST Web site at http:// 

www.nist.gov/el/disasterstudies/ncst/. 

DATES: The NCST Advisory Committee 

will meet on Tuesday, December 10, 

2013 from 8:30 a.m. until 5:00 p.m. 

Eastern time and Wednesday, December 

11, 2013, from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. 

Eastern time. 

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held in 

Rooms C103–C106, Advanced 

Measurement Laboratory (AML) 

Building (215), National Institute of 

Standards and Technology, 100 Bureau 


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Drive, Gaithersburg, Maryland 20899. 

Please note admittance instructions 

under the SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION

section of this notice. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Tina 

Faecke, Program and Management 

Analyst, Disaster and Failure Studies 

Program, Engineering Laboratory, 

National Institute of Standards and 

Technology, 100 Bureau Drive, Mail 

Stop 8604, Gaithersburg, Maryland 

20899–8604. Ms. Faecke’s email address 

is tina.faecke@nist.gov and her phone 

number is (301) 975–5911. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

Committee was established pursuant to 

Section 11 of the NCST Act (Pub. L. 

107–231), codified at 15 U.S.C. 7301 et 

seq. The Committee is composed of ten 

members, appointed by the Director of 

NIST, who were selected for their 

technical expertise and experience, 

established records of distinguished 

professional service, and their 

knowledge of issues affecting teams 

established under the NCST Act. The 

Committee advises the Director of NIST 

on the functions and composition of 

Teams established under the NCST Act 

and on the exercise of authorities 

enumerated in the NCST Act and 

reviews the procedures developed to 

implement the NCST Act and reports 

issued under section 8 of the NCST Act. 

Background information on the NCST 

Act and information on the NCST 

Advisory Committee is available at 

http://www.nist.gov/el/disasterstudies/

ncst/. 

Pursuant to the Federal Advisory 

Committee Act, as amended, 5 U.S.C. 

App., notice is hereby given that the 

NCST Advisory Committee will meet on 

Tuesday, December 10, 2013, from 8:30 

a.m. until 5:00 p.m. Eastern time and on 

Wednesday, December 11, 2013, from 

8:30 a.m. until 12:30 p.m. Eastern time. 

The meeting will be open to the public. 

This meeting was originally 

scheduled for October 15–16, 2013 and 

was rescheduled as a result of the 

government shutdown due to a lapse in 

appropriations. The primary purpose of 

this meeting is to update the Committee 

on the status of the NIST Disaster and 

Failure Studies Program, receive NIST’s 

response to the Committee’s 2012 

annual report recommendations, update 

the Committee on the progress of the 

NIST Technical Investigation of the May 

22, 2011 Tornado in Joplin, MO, and 

gather information for the Committee’s 

2013 Annual Report to Congress. The 

agenda may change to accommodate 

Committee business. The final agenda 

will be posted on the NIST Web site at 

http://www.nist.gov/el/disasterstudies/

ncst/. 

Individuals and representatives of 

organizations who would like to offer 

comments and suggestions related to 

items on the Committee’s agenda for 

this meeting are invited to request a 

place on the agenda. On December 10, 

2013, approximately fifteen minutes 

will be reserved near the conclusion of 

the meeting for public comments, and 

speaking times will be assigned on a 

first-come, first-served basis. The 

amount of time per speaker will be 

determined by the number of requests 

received, but is likely to be 5 minutes 

each. The exact time for public 

comments will be included in the final 

agenda that will be posted on the NCST 

Advisory Committee Web site at 

http://www.nist.gov/el/disasterstudies/

ncst/. Questions from the public will 

not be considered during this period. 

All those wishing to speak must submit 

their request by email to the attention of 

Ms. Tina Faecke, tina.faecke@nist.gov, 

by 5:00 p.m. Eastern time, Tuesday, 

December 3, 2013. 

Speakers who wish to expand upon 

their oral statements, those who had 

wished to speak but could not be 

accommodated on the agenda, and those 

who were unable to attend in person are 

invited to submit written statements to 

the National Construction Safety Team 

Advisory Committee, National Institute 

of Standards and Technology, 100 

Bureau Drive, MS 8604, Gaithersburg, 

Maryland 20899–8604, via fax at (301) 

975–4032, or electronically by email to 

tina.faecke@nist.gov. 

All visitors to the NIST site are 

required to pre-register to be admitted. 

Anyone wishing to attend this meeting 

must register by 5:00 p.m. Eastern time, 

Tuesday, December 3, 2013, in order to 

attend. Please submit your full name, 

email address, and phone number to 

Tina Faecke. Non-U.S. citizens must 

also submit their country of citizenship, 

title, and employer/sponsor. Ms. 

Faecke’s email address is tina.faecke@

nist.gov, and her phone number is (301) 

975–5911. 

Dated: October 31, 2013. 

Willie E. May, 

Associate Director for Laboratory Programs. 

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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

National Institute of Standards and 

Technology 

Request for Nominations for Members 

To Serve on National Institute of 

Standards and Technology Federal 

Advisory Committees 

AGENCY: National Institute of Standards 

and Technology, Department of 

Commerce. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The National Institute of 

Standards and Technology (NIST) 

invites and requests nomination of 

individuals for appointment to eight 

existing Federal Advisory Committees: 

Board of Overseers of the Malcolm 

Baldrige National Quality Award, 

Judges Panel of the Malcolm Baldrige 

National Quality Award, Information 

Security and Privacy Advisory Board, 

Manufacturing Extension Partnership 

Advisory Board, National Construction 

Safety Team Advisory Committee, 

Advisory Committee on Earthquake 

Hazards Reduction, NIST Smart Grid 

Advisory Committee, and Visiting 

Committee on Advanced Technology. 

NIST will consider nominations 

received in response to this notice for 

appointment to the Committees, in 

addition to nominations already 

received. Registered Federal lobbyists 

may not serve on NIST Federal 

Advisory Committees. 

DATES: Nominations for all committees 

will be accepted on an ongoing basis 

and will be considered as and when 

vacancies arise. 

ADDRESSES: See below. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Board of Overseers of the Malcolm 

Baldrige National Quality Award 

Addresses: Please submit nominations 

to Robert Fangmeyer, Acting Director, 

Baldrige Performance Excellence 

Program, NIST, 100 Bureau Drive, Mail 

Stop 1020, Gaithersburg, MD 20899– 

1020. Nominations may also be 

submitted via fax to 301–975–4967. 

Additional information regarding the 

Committee, including its charter, 

current membership list, and executive 

summary, may be found at: http://

www.nist.gov/baldrige/community/

overseers.cfm. 

For Further Information Contact: 

Robert Fangmeyer, Acting Director, 

Baldrige Performance Excellence 

Program and Designated Federal Officer, 

NIST, 100 Bureau Drive, Mail Stop 

1020, Gaithersburg, MD 20899–1020; 

telephone 301–975–4781; fax 301–975–


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