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presenters. The final agenda will be 

posted on the Web site indicated above. 

Public Participation: The ISPAB 

agenda will include a period of time, 

not to exceed thirty minutes, for oral 

comments from the public (Thursday, 

July 30, 2009, at 3 p.m.—3:30 p.m.). 

Each speaker will be limited to five 

minutes. Members of the public who are 

interested in speaking are asked to 

contact the ISPAB Secretariat at the 

telephone number indicated above. In 

addition, written statements are invited 

and may be submitted to the ISPAB at 

any time. Written statements should be 

directed to the ISPAB Secretariat, 

Information Technology Laboratory, 100 

Bureau Drive, Stop 8930, National 

Institute of Standards and Technology, 

Gaithersburg, MD 20899–8930. 

Approximately 15 seats will be available 

for the public and media on July 29— 

31, 2009. 

Dated: July 9, 2009. 

Patrick Gallagher, 

Deputy Director. 

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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

International Trade Administration 

Sponsoring ‘‘Sustainability and U.S. 

Competitiveness Summit’’ for U.S. 

Stakeholders; Request for Comments 

and Interest in Attendance 

ACTION: Notice and request for 

comments and interest in attendance. 

SUMMARY: The International Trade 

Administration’s Manufacturing and 

Services unit will sponsor a 

‘‘Sustainability and U.S. 

Competitiveness Summit’’ on October 8, 

2009 at the U.S. Department of 

Commerce. The Summit will be aimed 

at enhancing public-private interaction 

in the field of sustainable manufacturing 

and other related business practices. 

This notice (1) seeks input from 

individual U.S. stakeholders on areas of 

interest for discussion at the proposed 

‘‘Summit’’ and (2) solicits requests to 

participate in the Summit from U.S. 

stakeholders. 

DATES: Submit comments and requests 

to participate no later than 30 days after 

the date of this notice. 

ADDRESSES: Address all comments 

concerning this notice and requests to 

participate to Bill McElnea, U.S. 

Department of Commerce, Room 2213, 

1401 Constitution Ave., NW., 

Washington, DC 20230 (or via the 

Internet at susmanuf@mail.doc.gov). 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Bill 

McElnea, 202–482–2831. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

‘‘Sustainability and U.S. 

Competitiveness Summit’’ is sponsored 

by the Department of Commerce’s 

Sustainable Manufacturing Initiative 

(SMI). Commerce’s SMI is dedicated to 

supporting and promoting sustainable 

manufacturing practices, across all 

industry sectors, in the United States. 

The groundwork for the SMI was 

developed at an initial stakeholders’ 

event in September 2007 on sustainable 

manufacturing sponsored by 

Commerce’s Manufacturing and 

Services (MAS) unit. That event focused 

on two primary questions which remain 

central to the SMI mission: (1) What are 

U.S. industry’s most pressing 

sustainable manufacturing-related 

challenges? and (2) how can the public 

and private sectors best work together to 

address these challenges? MAS 

considered the individual stakeholder 

input received at that event in the 

formulation of the SMI’s four major 

project areas: (1) Creating a Subgroup on 

Sustainable Manufacturing as part of the 

Interagency Working Group on 

Manufacturing Competitiveness; (2) 

developing a comprehensive 

clearinghouse of USG programs and 

resources that support sustainable 

business practices; (3) conducting a 

series of regional facility tours of 

sustainable manufacturing leaders 

across the U.S. (formerly referred to as 

Sustainable Manufacturing American 

Regional Tours or SMARTs) and; (4) 

leading an effort with the Organization 

for Economic Cooperation and 

Development to establish sector-specific 

sustainable manufacturing metrics. For 

more information about the SMI and its 

projects, please see: 

www.manufacturing.gov/sustainability. 

The ‘‘Sustainability and U.S. 

Competitiveness Summit’’ is being 

designed with two main objectives in 

mind: (1) Reporting back to stakeholders 

on SMI projects completed since the 

September 2007 event, and (2) obtaining 

a second round of feedback from 

individual U.S. stakeholders regarding 

the present utility of the SMI and how 

it might evolve to meet the current and 

future needs of the U.S. manufacturing 

sector and broader business community. 

Regarding the second objective of the 

Summit, topic areas that could be 

discussed include, but are not limited 

to: ‘‘Green supply chain’’ challenges, 

regulatory compliance, the future nexus 

between U.S. competitiveness and 

environmental stewardship, how the 

SMI can support U.S. service providers 

in their sustainability efforts or 

incorporate their challenges and needs 

under the SMI mandate, and identifying 

U.S. regions where Commerce could 

conduct future regional facility tours 

similar to those held in 2008 and the 

Sustainability 360 event to be held July 

13, 2009 in Seattle, Washington. 

In preparation for the proposed event, 

MAS is requesting feedback from 

individual U.S. stakeholders on the 

following: 

• SMI policies and projects that have 

worked well and that should be 

continued; 

• Topic areas of interest to U.S. 

businesses with regard to sustainable 

manufacturing or other sustainable 

business issues which the SMI has not 

yet addressed. 

Due to logistical constraints, the 

Summit will be limited to 

approximately eighty to eighty-five nongovernment participants. MAS’s goal is 

that the Summit will present a diverse 

group of attendees in terms of 

affiliation, size, geographical base, and 

particular manufacturing sector. MAS 

encourages the participation of 

representatives of trade associations, 

U.S. businesses, academia, and other 

relevant U.S. entities that have a 

strategic interest in sustainable 

manufacturing as it relates to U.S. 

industry competitiveness. MAS will 

consider whether or not the requesting 

individual is from an association, 

organization or institution that 

maintains a substantial U.S. 

manufacturer member base and is well 

positioned to represent the views of 

small, medium and large size U.S. 

manufacturers in specific industry 

sectors. Finally, MAS invites the 

participation of members of the 

Secretary of Commerce’s Manufacturing 

Council and individuals who 

participated in or attended a regional 

facility tour in 2008 or a Sustainability 

360 event in 2009. 

Persons who express an interest in 

attending the Summit may, if they wish, 

provide information on their business or 

organization and why they believe they 

could make a useful contribution to this 

event. MAS’s decisions may also be 

based, in part, on publicly available 

information about the applicants. 

Dated: July 8, 2009. 

Bill McElnea, 

International Economist, Office of Trade 

Policy Analysis, Certifying Officer, 

International Trade Administration, 

Department of Commerce. 

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