81_FR_75256 81 FR 75047 - Board of Overseers of the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award

81 FR 75047 - Board of Overseers of the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Institute of Standards and Technology

Federal Register Volume 81, Issue 209 (October 28, 2016)

Page Range75047-75048
FR Document2016-26081

The Board of Overseers of the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award (Board) will meet in open session on Tuesday, December 6, 2016. The purpose of this meeting is to review and discuss the work of the private sector contractor, which assists the Director of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in administering the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award (Award), and information received from NIST and from the Chair of the Judges' Panel of the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award in order to make such suggestions for the improvement of the Award process as the Board deems necessary. Details on the agenda are noted in the SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section of this notice.

Federal Register, Volume 81 Issue 209 (Friday, October 28, 2016) 
[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 209 (Friday, October 28, 2016)]
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[FR Doc No: 2016-26081]


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 DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

National Institute of Standards and Technology


Board of Overseers of the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award

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

ACTION: Notice of open meeting.

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SUMMARY: The Board of Overseers of the Malcolm Baldrige National 
Quality Award (Board) will meet in open session on Tuesday, December 6, 
2016. The purpose of this meeting is to review and discuss the work of 
the private sector contractor, which assists the Director of the 
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in administering 
the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award (Award), and information 
received from NIST and from the Chair of the Judges' Panel of the 
Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award in order to make such 
suggestions for the improvement of the Award process as the Board deems 
necessary. Details on the agenda are noted in the SUPPLEMENTARY 
INFORMATION section of this notice.

DATES: The meeting will be held on Tuesday, December 6, 2016, from 8:30 
a.m. Eastern time until 3:00 p.m. Eastern time. The meeting will be 
open to the public.

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at the National Institute of 
Standards and Technology, 100 Bureau Drive, Building 101, Lecture Room 
A, Gaithersburg, Maryland 20899. Please note admittance instructions 
under the SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section of this notice.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Robert Fangmeyer, Director, Baldrige 
Performance Excellence Program, National Institute of Standards and 
Technology, 100 Bureau Drive, Mail Stop 1020, Gaithersburg, Maryland 
20899-1020, telephone number (301) 975-2360, or by email at 
[email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

    Authority:  15 U.S.C. 3711a(d)(2)(B) and the Federal Advisory 
Committee Act, as amended, 5 U.S.C. App.

    Pursuant to the Federal Advisory Committee Act, as amended, 5 
U.S.C. App., notice is hereby given that the Board will meet in open 
session on Tuesday, December 6, 2016, from 8:30 a.m. Eastern time until 
3:00 p.m. Eastern time. The Board is composed of eleven members 
selected for their preeminence in the field of organizational 
performance excellence and appointed by the Secretary of Commerce. The 
Board consists of a balanced representation from U.S. service, 
manufacturing, nonprofit, education, and health care industries. The 
Board includes members familiar with the quality improvement operations 
and competitiveness issues of manufacturing companies, service 
companies, small businesses, health care providers, and educational 
institutions. Members are also chosen who have broad experience

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in for-profit and nonprofit areas. The purpose of this meeting is to 
review and discuss the work of the private sector contractor, which 
assists the Director of the National Institute of Standards and 
Technology (NIST) in administering the Award, and information received 
from NIST and from the Chair of the Judges' Panel of the Malcolm 
Baldrige National Quality Award in order to make such suggestions for 
the improvement of the Award process as the Board deems necessary. The 
Board shall make an annual report on the results of Award activities to 
the Director of NIST, along with its recommendations for the 
improvement of the Award process. The agenda will include: Report from 
the Judges Panel of the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award, 
Baldrige Program Business Plan Status Report, Baldrige Foundation 
Fundraising Update, Products and Services Update, and Recommendations 
for the NIST Director. The agenda may change to accommodate Board 
business. The final agenda will be posted on the NIST Baldrige 
Performance Excellence Web site at http://www.nist.gov/baldrige/community/overseers.cfm. The meeting will be open to the public.
    Individuals and representatives of organizations who would like to 
offer comments and suggestions related to the Board's affairs are 
invited to request a place on the agenda. On December 6, 2016 
approximately one-half hour will be reserved in the afternoon 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 about 3 minutes 
each. The exact time for public comments will be included in the final 
agenda that will be posted on the Baldrige Web site at http://www.nist.gov/baldrige/community/overseers.cfm. Questions from the 
public will not be considered during this period. 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 
Baldrige Performance Excellence Program, NIST, 100 Bureau Drive, Mail 
Stop 1020, Gaithersburg, Maryland, 20899-1020, via fax at 301-975-4967 
or electronically by email to [email protected].
    All visitors to the National Institute of Standards and Technology 
site must pre-register to be admitted. Please submit your name, time of 
arrival, email address and phone number to Nancy Young no later than 
5:00 p.m. Eastern Time, Tuesday, November 29, 2015 and she will provide 
you with instructions for admittance. Non-U.S. citizens must submit 
additional information and should contact Ms. Young for instructions. 
Ms. Young's email address is [email protected] and her phone number 
is (301) 975-2361. For participants attending in person, please note 
that federal agencies, including NIST, can only accept a state-issued 
driver's license or identification card for access to federal 
facilities if such license or identification card is issued by a state 
that is compliant with the REAL ID Act of 2005 (P.L. 109-13), or by a 
state that has an extension for REAL ID compliance. NIST currently 
accepts other forms of federal-issued identification in lieu of a 
state-issued driver's license. For detailed information please contact 
Ms. Young or visit: http://www.nist.gov/public_affairs/visitor/.

Kevin Kimball,
NIST Chief of Staff.
[FR Doc. 2016-26081 Filed 10-27-16; 8:45 am]
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Federal Register / Vol. 81, No. 209 / Friday, October 28, 2016 / Notices 75047 it meets the physical description set forth (b) finished electrical conduit, i.e., SUMMARY: The Board of Overseers of the above, and also has one or more of the Electrical Rigid Steel Conduit (also known as Malcolm Baldrige National Quality following characteristics: Is 32 feet in length Electrical Rigid Metal Conduit and Electrical Award (Board) will meet in open or less; is less than 2.0 inches (50 mm) in Rigid Metal Steel Conduit), Finished outside diameter; has a galvanized and/or session on Tuesday, December 6, 2016. Electrical Metallic Tubing, and Electrical painted (e.g., polyester coated) surface finish; Intermediate Metal Conduit, which are The purpose of this meeting is to review or has a threaded and/or coupled end finish. defined by specifications such as American and discuss the work of the private Standard pipe is ordinarily made to ASTM National Standard (ANSI) C80.1–2005, ANSI sector contractor, which assists the specifications A53, A135, and A795, but can C80.3–2005, or ANSI C80.6–2005, and Director of the National Institute of also be made to other specifications. Underwriters Laboratories Inc. (UL) UL–6, Standards and Technology (NIST) in Structural pipe is made primarily to ASTM UL–797, or UL–1242; administering the Malcolm Baldrige specifications A252 and A500. Standard and (c) finished scaffolding, i.e., component National Quality Award (Award), and structural pipe may also be produced to parts of final, finished scaffolding that enter proprietary specifications rather than to information received from NIST and the United States unassembled as a ‘‘kit.’’ A industry specifications. from the Chair of the Judges’ Panel of kit is understood to mean a packaged Sprinkler pipe is designed for sprinkler fire combination of component parts that the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality suppression systems and may be made to contains, at the time of importation, all of the Award in order to make such industry specifications such as ASTM A53 or necessary component parts to fully assemble suggestions for the improvement of the to proprietary specifications. final, finished scaffolding; Award process as the Board deems Fence tubing is included in the scope (d) tube and pipe hollows for redrawing; necessary. Details on the agenda are regardless of certification to a specification (e) oil country tubular goods produced to listed in the exclusions below, and can also noted in the SUPPLEMENTARY API specifications; INFORMATION section of this notice. be made to the ASTM A513 specification. (f) line pipe produced to only API Products that meet the physical description DATES: The meeting will be held on specifications, such as API 5L, and not multi- set forth above but are made to the following Tuesday, December 6, 2016, from 8:30 stenciled; and nominal outside diameter and wall thickness a.m. Eastern time until 3:00 p.m. Eastern (g) mechanical tubing, whether or not cold- combinations, which are recognized by the time. The meeting will be open to the drawn, other than what is included in the industry as typical for fence tubing, are included despite being certified to ASTM above paragraphs. public. mechanical tubing specifications: The products subject to this investigation ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at are currently classifiable in Harmonized the National Institute of Standards and Tariff Schedule of the United States (HTSUS) Wall statistical reporting numbers 7306.19.1010, Technology, 100 Bureau Drive, Building O.D. in inches thickness 101, Lecture Room A, Gaithersburg, Gage 7306.19.1050, 7306.19.5110, 7306.19.5150, (nominal) in inches (nominal) 7306.30.1000, 7306.30.5015, 7306.30.5020, Maryland 20899. Please note admittance 7306.30.5025, 7306.30.5032, 7306.30.5040, instructions under the SUPPLEMENTARY 1.315 ................. 0.035 20 7306.30.5055, 7306.30.5085, 7306.30.5090, INFORMATION section of this notice. 1.315 ................. 0.047 18 7306.50.1000, 7306.50.5030, 7306.50.5050, FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 1.315 ................. 0.055 17 and 7306.50.5070. The HTSUS subheadings Robert Fangmeyer, Director, Baldrige 1.315 ................. 0.065 16 above are provided for convenience and U.S. Performance Excellence Program, 1.315 ................. 0.072 15 Customs purposes only. The written 1.315 ................. 0.083 14 description of the scope of the investigation National Institute of Standards and 1.315 ................. 0.095 13 is dispositive. Technology, 100 Bureau Drive, Mail 1.660 ................. 0.055 17 Stop 1020, Gaithersburg, Maryland 1.660 ................. 0.065 16 Appendix II 20899–1020, telephone number (301) 1.660 ................. 0.083 14 Topics Discussed in the Issues and Decision 975–2360, or by email at 1.660 ................. 0.095 13 Memorandum robert.fangmeyer@nist.gov. 1.660 ................. 0.109 12 I. Summary SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 1.900 ................. 0.047 18 1.900 ................. 0.055 17 II. Background Authority: 15 U.S.C. 3711a(d)(2)(B) and 1.900 ................. 0.065 16 III. Scope Comments the Federal Advisory Committee Act, as 1.900 ................. 0.072 15 IV. Scope of the Investigation amended, 5 U.S.C. App. 1.900 ................. 0.095 13 V. Use of Facts Otherwise Available and 1.900 ................. 0.109 12 Adverse Inferences Pursuant to the Federal Advisory 2.375 ................. 0.047 18 VI. Discussion of the Issues Committee Act, as amended, 5 U.S.C. 2.375 ................. 0.055 17 Issue 1: Non-Cooperation of IIL App., notice is hereby given that the 2.375 ................. 0.065 16 Issue 2: Corroboration of Secondary Board will meet in open session on 2.375 ................. 0.072 15 Information Tuesday, December 6, 2016, from 8:30 2.375 ................. 0.095 13 VII. Conclusion a.m. Eastern time until 3:00 p.m. Eastern 2.375 ................. 0.109 12 [FR Doc. 2016–26114 Filed 10–27–16; 8:45 am] time. The Board is composed of eleven 2.375 ................. 0.120 11 BILLING CODE 3510–DS–P members selected for their preeminence 2.875 ................. 0.109 12 2.875 ................. 0.165 8 in the field of organizational 3.500 ................. 0.109 12 performance excellence and appointed DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE by the Secretary of Commerce. The 3.500 ................. 0.165 8 4.000 ................. 0.148 9 Board consists of a balanced National Institute of Standards and 4.000 ................. 0.165 8 representation from U.S. service, 4.500 ................. 0.203 7 Technology manufacturing, nonprofit, education, and health care industries. The Board mstockstill on DSK3G9T082PROD with NOTICES The scope of this investigation does not Board of Overseers of the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award includes members familiar with the include: quality improvement operations and (a) Pipe suitable for use in boilers, superheaters, heat exchangers, refining AGENCY: National Institute of Standards competitiveness issues of manufacturing furnaces and feedwater heaters, whether or and Technology, Department of companies, service companies, small not cold drawn, which are defined by Commerce. businesses, health care providers, and standards such as ASTM A178 or ASTM educational institutions. 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75048 Federal Register / Vol. 81, No. 209 / Friday, October 28, 2016 / Notices in for-profit and nonprofit areas. The Time, Tuesday, November 29, 2015 and directed to Stephen Stohs, (858) 546– purpose of this meeting is to review and she will provide you with instructions 7084 or stephen.stohs@noaa.gov. discuss the work of the private sector for admittance. Non-U.S. citizens must SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: contractor, which assists the Director of submit additional information and the National Institute of Standards and should contact Ms. Young for I. Abstract Technology (NIST) in administering the instructions. Ms. Young’s email address This request is for a new collection of Award, and information received from is nancy.young@nist.gov and her phone information. NIST and from the Chair of the Judges’ number is (301) 975–2361. For The Southwest Fisheries Science Panel of the Malcolm Baldrige National participants attending in person, please Center (SWFSC) is undertaking an Quality Award in order to make such note that federal agencies, including economics data collection effort for the suggestions for the improvement of the NIST, can only accept a state-issued West Coast Swordfish Fishery (WCSF) Award process as the Board deems driver’s license or identification card for in order to improve the SWFSC’s necessary. The Board shall make an access to federal facilities if such license capability to do the following: (1) annual report on the results of Award or identification card is issued by a state Describe and monitor economic activities to the Director of NIST, along that is compliant with the REAL ID Act performance (e.g., profitability, capacity with its recommendations for the of 2005 (P.L. 109–13), or by a state that utilization, efficiency, and productivity) improvement of the Award process. The has an extension for REAL ID and impacts (e.g., sector, community, or agenda will include: Report from the compliance. NIST currently accepts region-specific employment and Judges Panel of the Malcolm Baldrige other forms of federal-issued income); (2) determine the quantity and National Quality Award, Baldrige identification in lieu of a state-issued distribution of net benefits derived from Program Business Plan Status Report, driver’s license. For detailed living marine resources; (3) understand Baldrige Foundation Fundraising information please contact Ms. Young or and predict the ecological, and behavior Update, Products and Services Update, visit: http://www.nist.gov/public_ of participants in Federally managed and Recommendations for the NIST affairs/visitor/. commercial fisheries; (4) predict the Director. The agenda may change to biological, ecological, and economic accommodate Board business. The final Kevin Kimball, NIST Chief of Staff. impacts of existing management agenda will be posted on the NIST measures and alternative proposed Baldrige Performance Excellence Web [FR Doc. 2016–26081 Filed 10–27–16; 8:45 am] management actions; and (5) in general, site at http://www.nist.gov/baldrige/ BILLING CODE 3510–13–P more effectively conduct the analyses community/overseers.cfm. The meeting required under the MSA, the will be open to the public. Individuals and representatives of DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE Endangered Species Act (ESA), and the organizations who would like to offer Marine Mammal Protection Act comments and suggestions related to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric (MMPDA), the National Environmental Board’s affairs are invited to request a Administration Policy Act (NEPA), and Regulatory place on the agenda. On December 6, Flexibility Act (RFA), Executive Order 2016 approximately one-half hour will Proposed Information Collection; 12866, and other applicable law. be reserved in the afternoon for public Comment Request; West Coast II. Method of Collection comments, and speaking times will be Swordfish Fishery Survey assigned on a first-come, first-served WCSF participants will be contacted AGENCY: National Oceanic and and screened to participate in the data basis. The amount of time per speaker Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), will be determined by the number of collection. A cost and earnings survey Commerce. will be scheduled and administered to requests received, but is likely to be about 3 minutes each. The exact time for ACTION: Notice. eligible respondents as appropriate. public comments will be included in Screener, scheduling and survey modes the final agenda that will be posted on SUMMARY: The Department of may include in-person, Internet, phone, the Baldrige Web site at http:// Commerce, as part of its continuing or mail. www.nist.gov/baldrige/community/ effort to reduce paperwork and WCSF participants are defined as overseers.cfm. Questions from the respondent burden, offers the general current or former participants in the public will not be considered during public and other Federal agencies this United States (U.S.) west-coast this period. Speakers who wish to opportunity to comment on proposed swordfish fisheries—drift gillnet, expand upon their oral statements, and/or continuing information longline, harpoon and experimental those who had wished to speak, but collections, as required by the deep-set buoy gear—and suppliers of could not be accommodated on the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. support services to the fishery, such as agenda, and those who were unable to DATES: Written comments must be processors and spotter-plane pilots. attend in person are invited to submit submitted on or before 60 days after III. Data written statements to the Baldrige date of publication of this notice. Performance Excellence Program, NIST, OMB Control Number: 0648–xxxx. ADDRESSES: Direct all written comments Form Number(s): None. 100 Bureau Drive, Mail Stop 1020, to Jennifer Jessup, Departmental Type of Review: Regular submission Gaithersburg, Maryland, 20899–1020, Paperwork Clearance Officer, (request for a new information via fax at 301–975–4967 or Department of Commerce, Room 6616, collection). mstockstill on DSK3G9T082PROD with NOTICES electronically by email to nancy.young@ 14th and Constitution Avenue NW., Affected Public: Businesses or other nist.gov. All visitors to the National Institute of Washington, DC 20230 (or via the for-profit organizations. Standards and Technology site must Internet at JJessup@doc.gov). Estimated Number of Respondents: pre-register to be admitted. Please FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 50. submit your name, time of arrival, email Requests for additional information or Estimated Time per Response: 5 address and phone number to Nancy copies of the information collection minutes for screener; 5 minutes to Young no later than 5:00 p.m. Eastern instrument and instructions should be schedule survey for qualified and VerDate Sep<11>2014 18:12 Oct 27, 2016 Jkt 241001 PO 00000 Frm 00023 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 E:\FR\FM\28OCN1.SGM 28OCN1


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CategoryRegulatory Information
CollectionFederal Register
sudoc ClassAE 2.7:
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PublisherOffice of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Administration
SectionNotices
ActionNotice of open meeting.
DatesThe meeting will be held on Tuesday, December 6, 2016, from 8:30 a.m. Eastern time until 3:00 p.m. Eastern time. The meeting will be open to the public.
ContactRobert Fangmeyer, Director, Baldrige Performance Excellence Program, National Institute of Standards and Technology, 100 Bureau Drive, Mail Stop 1020, Gaithersburg, Maryland 20899-1020, telephone number (301) 975-2360, or by email at [email protected]
FR Citation81 FR 75047 
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