82_FR_22741 82 FR 22647 - Visiting Committee on Advanced Technology

82 FR 22647 - Visiting Committee on Advanced Technology

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Institute of Standards and Technology

Federal Register Volume 82, Issue 94 (May 17, 2017)

Page Range22647-22648
FR Document2017-09997

The Visiting Committee on Advanced Technology (VCAT or Committee), National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), will meet in an open session on Tuesday, June 13, 2017 from 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Eastern Time and Wednesday, June 14, 2017 from 8:30 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. Eastern Time. The VCAT is composed of not fewer than 9 members appointed by the NIST Director, a majority of whom are eminent in such fields as business, research, new product development, engineering, labor, education, management consulting, environment, and international relations.

Federal Register, Volume 82 Issue 94 (Wednesday, May 17, 2017) 
[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 94 (Wednesday, May 17, 2017)]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

National Institute of Standards and Technology


Visiting Committee on Advanced Technology

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

ACTION: Notice of public meeting.

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SUMMARY: The Visiting Committee on Advanced Technology (VCAT or 
Committee), National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), will 
meet in an open session on Tuesday, June 13, 2017 from 8:30 a.m. to 
3:30 p.m. Eastern Time and Wednesday, June 14, 2017 from 8:30 a.m. to 
11:00 a.m. Eastern Time. The VCAT is composed of not fewer than 9 
members appointed by the NIST Director, a majority of whom are eminent 
in such fields as business, research, new product development, 
engineering, labor, education, management consulting, environment, and 
international relations.

DATES: The VCAT will meet on Tuesday, June 13, 2017 from 8:30 a.m. to 
3:30 p.m. Eastern Time and Wednesday, June 14, 2017 from 8:30 a.m. to 
11:00 a.m. Eastern Time.

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held in the Portrait Room, 
Administration Building, at NIST, 100 Bureau Drive, Gaithersburg, 
Maryland, 20899. Please note admittance instructions under the 
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section of this notice.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Serena Martinez, VCAT, NIST, 100 
Bureau Drive, Mail Stop 1060, Gaithersburg, Maryland 20899-1060, 
telephone number 301-975-2661. Mrs. Martinez's email address is 
serena.martinez@nist.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

    Authority:  15 U.S.C. 278, as amended, and the Federal Advisory 
Committee Act, as amended, 5 U.S.C. App.

    The purpose of this meeting is for the VCAT to review and make 
recommendations regarding general policy for NIST, its organization, 
its budget, and its programs within the framework of applicable 
national policies as set forth by the President and the Congress. The 
agenda will include an update on major programs at NIST, as well as 
presentations and discussions on safety and security at NIST. It will 
also include an update on three preparatory working groups; the 
Preparatory Work Group on Trade, the Preparatory Work Group on 
Innovation and Competitiveness through Fundamental Measurement Research 
and Development, and the Preparatory Work Group on Communications. The 
agenda will also include discussion on how NIST can prioritize its 
measurement science research and development efforts to maximize 
current impact and ensure continued impact in the years to come. The 
agenda may change to accommodate Committee business. The final agenda 
will be posted on the NIST Web site at http://www.nist.gov/director/vcat/agenda.cfm.
    Individuals and representatives of organizations who would like to 
offer comments and suggestions related to the Committee's affairs are 
invited to request a place on the agenda. On Wednesday, June 14, 
approximately one-half hour in the morning will be reserved for public 
comments and speaking times will be assigned on a first-come, first-
serve 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 NIST Web site at http://www.nist.gov/director/vcat/agenda.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 VCAT, NIST, 100 
Bureau Drive, MS 1060, Gaithersburg, Maryland, 20899, via fax at 301-
216-0529 or electronically by email to stephanie.shaw@nist.gov.
    All visitors to the NIST site are required to pre-register to be 
admitted. Please submit your name, time of arrival, email address and 
phone number to Serena Martinez by 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time, Tuesday, 
June 6, 2017. Non-U.S. citizens must submit additional information; 
please contact Mrs. Martinez. Mrs. Martinez's email address is 
serena.martinez@nist.gov and her phone number is 301-975-2661. 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

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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 Mrs. Martinez 
at 301-975-2661 or visit: http://nist.gov/public_affairs/visitor/.

Kevin A. Kimball,
Chief of Staff, National Institute of Standards and Technology, U.S. 
Department of Commerce.
[FR Doc. 2017-09997 Filed 5-16-17; 8:45 am]
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Federal Register / Vol. 82, No. 94 / Wednesday, May 17, 2017 / Notices 22647 Background Dated: May 11, 2017. an update on major programs at NIST, On March 28, 2017, the Department of Ronald K. Lorentzen, as well as presentations and discussions Acting Assistant Secretary for Enforcement on safety and security at NIST. It will Commerce (Department) initiated a and Compliance. also include an update on three countervailing duty investigation (CVD) [FR Doc. 2017–09975 Filed 5–16–17; 8:45 am] preparatory working groups; the on certain aluminum foil from the Preparatory Work Group on Trade, the People’s Republic of China.1 Currently, BILLING CODE 3510–DS–P Preparatory Work Group on Innovation the preliminary determination of this and Competitiveness through investigation is due no later than June DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE Fundamental Measurement Research 1, 2017. and Development, and the Preparatory Postponement of Preliminary National Institute of Standards and Work Group on Communications. The Determination Technology agenda will also include discussion on how NIST can prioritize its Section 703(b)(1) of the Tariff Act of Visiting Committee on Advanced measurement science research and 1930, as amended (the Act), requires the Technology development efforts to maximize Department to issue the preliminary AGENCY: National Institute of Standards current impact and ensure continued determination in a CVD investigation and Technology, Department of impact in the years to come. The agenda within 65 days after the date on which Commerce. may change to accommodate Committee the Department initiated the business. The final agenda will be investigation. However, if the petitioner ACTION: Notice of public meeting. posted on the NIST Web site at http:// makes a timely request for a www.nist.gov/director/vcat/agenda.cfm. postponement, section 703(c)(1)(A) of SUMMARY: The Visiting Committee on Advanced Technology (VCAT or Individuals and representatives of the Act allows the Department to organizations who would like to offer postpone making the preliminary Committee), National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), will comments and suggestions related to the determination until no later than 130 Committee’s affairs are invited to days after the date on which the meet in an open session on Tuesday, June 13, 2017 from 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 request a place on the agenda. On Department initiated the investigation. Wednesday, June 14, approximately On May 4, 2017, the petitioners 2 p.m. Eastern Time and Wednesday, June 14, 2017 from 8:30 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. one-half hour in the morning will be submitted a timely request pursuant to reserved for public comments and section 703(c)(1)(A) of the Act and 19 Eastern Time. The VCAT is composed of not fewer than 9 members appointed by speaking times will be assigned on a CFR 351.205(e) to postpone the first-come, first-serve basis. The amount preliminary determination.3 For the the NIST Director, a majority of whom are eminent in such fields as business, of time per speaker will be determined reasons stated above and because there by the number of requests received, but are no compelling reasons to deny the research, new product development, engineering, labor, education, is likely to be about 3 minutes each. The request, the Department, in accordance exact time for public comments will be with section 703(c)(1)(A) of the Act, is management consulting, environment, and international relations. included in the final agenda that will be postponing the deadline for the posted on the NIST Web site at http:// preliminary determination to no later DATES: The VCAT will meet on www.nist.gov/director/vcat/agenda.cfm. than 130 days after the day on which Tuesday, June 13, 2017 from 8:30 a.m. Questions from the public will not be the investigation was initiated. to 3:30 p.m. Eastern Time and considered during this period. Speakers Accordingly, the Department will issue Wednesday, June 14, 2017 from 8:30 who wish to expand upon their oral the preliminary determination no later a.m. to 11:00 a.m. Eastern Time. statements, those who had wished to than August 5, 2017. However, because ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held in speak but could not be accommodated August 5, 2017, falls on a Saturday, the the Portrait Room, Administration on the agenda, and those who were preliminary determination is now due Building, at NIST, 100 Bureau Drive, unable to attend in person are invited to no later than August 7, 2017.4 In Gaithersburg, Maryland, 20899. Please submit written statements to VCAT, accordance with section 705(a)(1) of the note admittance instructions under the NIST, 100 Bureau Drive, MS 1060, Act and 19 CFR 351.210(b)(1), the SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section of Gaithersburg, Maryland, 20899, via fax deadline for the final determination of this notice. at 301–216–0529 or electronically by this investigation will continue to be 75 FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: email to stephanie.shaw@nist.gov. days after the date of the preliminary Serena Martinez, VCAT, NIST, 100 All visitors to the NIST site are determination, unless postponed at a Bureau Drive, Mail Stop 1060, required to pre-register to be admitted. later date. Gaithersburg, Maryland 20899–1060, Please submit your name, time of This notice is issued and published telephone number 301–975–2661. Mrs. arrival, email address and phone pursuant to section 703(c)(2) of the Act Martinez’s email address is number to Serena Martinez by 5:00 p.m. and 19 CFR 351.205(f)(1). serena.martinez@nist.gov. Eastern Time, Tuesday, June 6, 2017. Non-U.S. citizens must submit SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 1 See Certain Aluminum Foil from the People’s additional information; please contact Republic of China: Initiation of Countervailing Duty Authority: 15 U.S.C. 278, as amended, and Mrs. Martinez. Mrs. Martinez’s email Investigation, 82 FR 15688 (March 30, 2017). the Federal Advisory Committee Act, as address is serena.martinez@nist.gov and 2 The Aluminum Association Trade Enforcement amended, 5 U.S.C. App. her phone number is 301–975–2661. For Working Group and its individual members The purpose of this meeting is for the participants attending in person, please nlaroche on DSK30NT082PROD with NOTICES (collectively, the petitioners). 3 See letter from the petitioners entitled ‘‘Certain VCAT to review and make note that federal agencies, including Aluminum Foil from the People’s Republic of recommendations regarding general NIST, can only accept a state-issued China—Petitioners’ Request to Postpone policy for NIST, its organization, its driver’s license or identification card for Preliminary Determination,’’ dated May 4, 2017. budget, and its programs within the access to federal facilities if such license 4 See Notice of Clarification: Application of ‘‘Next Business Day’’ Rule for Administrative framework of applicable national or identification card is issued by a state Determination Deadlines Pursuant to the Tariff Act policies as set forth by the President and that is compliant with the REAL ID Act of 1930, As Amended, 70 FR 24533 (May 10, 2005). the Congress. 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22648 Federal Register / Vol. 82, No. 94 / Wednesday, May 17, 2017 / Notices has an extension for REAL ID contained in this notice or in Committee) relate to proposals to amend compliance. NIST currently accepts publications produced by the NCWM. NIST Handbook 130, ‘‘Uniform Laws other forms of federal-issued The NCWM is an organization of and Regulations in the Areas of Legal identification in lieu of a state-issued weights and measures officials of the Metrology and Engine Fuel Quality’’ driver’s license. For detailed states, counties, and cities of the United and NIST Handbook 133, ‘‘Checking the information please contact Mrs. States, and representatives from the Net Contents of Packaged Goods.’’ Martinez at 301–975–2661 or visit: private sector and federal agencies. These meetings bring together NCWM S&T Committee http://nist.gov/public_affairs/visitor/. government officials and representatives The following items are proposals to Kevin A. Kimball, of business, industry, trade associations, amend NIST Handbook 44: Chief of Staff, National Institute of Standards and consumer organizations on subjects and Technology, U.S. Department of Scales related to the field of weights and Commerce. measures technology, administration, Item 3200–2 S.1.2.2. Verification Scale [FR Doc. 2017–09997 Filed 5–16–17; 8:45 am] and enforcement. NIST participates to Interval BILLING CODE 3510–13–P encourage cooperation between federal Scales Code Paragraph S.1.2.2. agencies and the states in the Verification Scale Interval currently development of legal metrology requires any Class I and II scale and DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE requirements. NIST also promotes dynamic monorail scale provided with uniformity in state laws, regulations, a scale division value (d) that differs National Institute of Standards and and testing procedures used in the from the verification scale interval (e), Technology regulatory control of commercial to comply with the expression: d < e ≤ National Conference on Weights and weighing and measuring devices, 10 d. Measures 102nd Annual Meeting packaged goods, and for other trade and The S&T Committee will consider a commerce issues. proposal that adds a new subparagraph AGENCY: National Institute of Standards The NCWM has established multiple beneath the Section heading ‘‘S.1.2.2. and Technology, Commerce. committees, task groups, and other Verification Scale Interval’’ which ACTION: Notice. working bodies to address legal would require the value of the displayed metrology issues of interest to regulatory SUMMARY: The 102nd Annual Meeting of scale division ‘‘d’’ to be equal to the officials, industry, consumers, and the National Conference on Weights and value of the verification scale interval others. The following are brief Measures (NCWM) will be held in ‘‘e’’ on Class I and II scales used in a descriptions of some of the significant Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, from Sunday, direct sale application (i.e., an agenda items that will be considered by July 16, 2017, through Thursday, July application in which both parties, for some of the NCWM Committees at the 20, 2017. This notice contains example, buyer and seller, are present NCWM Annual Meeting. Comments will information about significant items on when the quantity is determined). The be taken on these and other issues the NCWM Committee agendas but does new subparagraph being proposed is during public comment sessions. This not include all agenda items. As a meeting also includes work sessions in nonretroactive with a proposed result, the items are not consecutively which the Committees may also accept enforcement date of January 1, 2020, numbered. comments for clarification on issues, making evident the submitter’s and where they will finalize intention that it not apply to equipment DATES: The meeting will be held on already in commercial service. Sunday, July 15, 2017, through recommendations for possible adoption Wednesday, July 19, 2017, from 8:00 at this meeting. The Committees may Item 3200–3 S.1.8.5. Recorded a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time, and on also withdraw or carry over items that Representations, Point-of-Sale Systems Thursday, July 20, 2017, from 9:00 a.m. need additional development. and S.1.9.3. Recorded Representations, to 12:00 p.m. Eastern Time. The meeting These notices are intended to make Random Weight Packages Labels schedule is available at www.ncwm.net. interested parties aware of these The S&T Committee will consider a development projects and to make them ADDRESSES: This meeting will be held at aware that reports on the status of the proposal requiring additional sales the Omni William Penn Hotel, 530 project will be given at the Annual information be recorded by cash William Penn Place, Pittsburgh, Meeting. The notices are also presented registers interfaced with a weighing Pennsylvania 15219. to invite the participation of element for items that are weighed at a FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, CONTACT: Dr. manufacturers, experts, consumers, checkout stand. These systems are Douglas Olson, NIST, Office of Weights users, and others who may be interested currently required to record the net and Measures, 100 Bureau Drive, Stop in these efforts. weight, unit price, total price, and the 2600, Gaithersburg, MD 20899–2600. The Specifications and Tolerances product class or, in a system equipped You may also contact Dr. Olson at (301) Committee (S&T Committee) will with price look-up capability, the 975–2956 or by email at douglas.olson@ consider proposed amendments to NIST product name or code number. The nist.gov. The meeting is open to the Handbook 44, ‘‘Specifications, change proposed adds ‘‘tare weight’’ to public, but a paid registration is Tolerances, and other Technical the list of sales information already required. Please see the NCWM Web site Requirements for Weighing and required. (www.ncwm.net) to view the meeting Measuring Devices.’’ Those items Weigh-In-Motion Systems Used for agendas, registration forms, and hotel address weighing and measuring Vehicle Enforcement Screening nlaroche on DSK30NT082PROD with NOTICES reservation information. devices used in commercial SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: applications, that is, devices used to buy tem 3205–1 A. Application and Publication of this notice on the from or sell to the public or used for Sections Throughout the Code To NCWM’s behalf is undertaken as a determining the quantity of products or Address Commercial and Law public service; NIST does not endorse, services sold among businesses. Issues Enforcement Applications approve, or recommend any of the on the agenda of the NCWM Laws and In February 2016, the NCWM formed proposals or other information Regulations Committee (L&R a new task group (TG) to consider a VerDate Sep<11>2014 15:18 May 16, 2017 Jkt 241001 PO 00000 Frm 00006 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 E:\FR\FM\17MYN1.SGM 17MYN1


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PublisherOffice of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Administration
SectionNotices
ActionNotice of public meeting.
DatesThe VCAT will meet on Tuesday, June 13, 2017 from 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Eastern Time and Wednesday, June 14, 2017 from 8:30 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. Eastern Time.
ContactSerena Martinez, VCAT, NIST, 100 Bureau Drive, Mail Stop 1060, Gaithersburg, Maryland 20899-1060,
FR Citation82 FR 22647 
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