83_FR_42803 83 FR 42639 - Manufacturing Extension Partnership Advisory Board

83 FR 42639 - Manufacturing Extension Partnership Advisory Board

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Institute of Standards and Technology

Federal Register Volume 83, Issue 164 (August 23, 2018)

Page Range42639-42640
FR Document2018-18207

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) announces that the Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP) Advisory Board will hold an open meeting on September 12, 2018.

Federal Register, Volume 83 Issue 164 (Thursday, August 23, 2018) 
[Federal Register Volume 83, Number 164 (Thursday, August 23, 2018)]
[Notices]
[Pages 42639-42640]
From the Federal Register Online  [www.thefederalregister.org]
[FR Doc No: 2018-18207]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

National Institute of Standards and Technology


Manufacturing Extension Partnership Advisory Board

AGENCY: National Institute of Standards and Technology, Commerce.

ACTION: Notice of open meeting.

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SUMMARY: The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) 
announces that the Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP) Advisory 
Board will hold an open meeting on September 12, 2018.

DATES: The meeting will be held Wednesday, September 12, 2018, from 
2:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. Central Time.

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at the Kansas City Marriott 
Downtown in the 12th Street Meeting Room, at 200 W 12th St., Kansas 
City, MO 64105. Please note admittance instructions in the 
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section below.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Cheryl L. Gendron, Manufacturing 
Extension Partnership, National Institute of Standards and Technology, 
100 Bureau Drive, Mail Stop 4800, Gaithersburg, Maryland 20899-4800, 
telephone number (301) 975-2785, email: cheryl.gendron@nist.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The MEP Advisory Board is authorized under 
Section 3003(d) of the America COMPETES Act (Pub. L. 110-69), as 
amended by the American Innovation and Competitiveness Act, Public Law 
114-329 sec. 501 (2017), and codified at 15 U.S.C. 278k(m), in 
accordance with the provisions of the Federal Advisory Committee Act, 
as amended, 5 U.S.C. App. The Hollings MEP Program (Program) is a 
unique program, consisting of Centers in all 50 states and Puerto Rico 
with partnerships at the state, federal, and local levels. By statute, 
the MEP Advisory Board provides the NIST Director with: (1) Advice on 
the activities, plans, and policies of the Program; (2) assessments of 
the soundness of the plans and strategies of the Program; and (3) 
assessments of current performance against the plans of the Program.
    Background information on the MEP Advisory Board is available at 
http://www.nist.gov/mep/about/advisory-board.cfm.
    Pursuant to the Federal Advisory Committee Act, as amended, 5 
U.S.C. App., notice is hereby given that the MEP Advisory Board will 
hold an open meeting on Wednesday, September 12, 2018, from 2:00 p.m. 
to 6:00 p.m. Central Time. The meeting agenda will include an update on 
Hollings MEP programmatic operations, as well as the opportunity for 
the MEP Advisory Board to provide guidance and advice on current 
activities related to the 2017-2022 MEP National Network Strategic 
Plan. The MEP Advisory Board will provide input to NIST on supply chain 
development with an emphasis on defense suppliers, in order to 
strengthen the defense industrial base, and will make recommendations 
on the development of research and performance metrics to support and 
enrich MEP Center evaluation. The MEP Advisory Board will also get 
updates on and discuss the Government Accountability Office (GAO) Cost 
Share Report. The final agenda will be posted on the MEP Advisory Board 
website at http://www.nist.gov/mep/about/advisory-board.cfm.
    Individuals and representatives of organizations who would like to 
offer comments and suggestions related to the MEP Advisory Board's 
business are invited to request a place on the agenda. Approximately 15 
minutes will be reserved for public comments at the end of the meeting. 
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 no more than three to five 
minutes each. Requests must be received in writing by 5:00 p.m. Eastern 
Time on August 31, 2018 to be considered. The exact time for public 
comments will be included in the final agenda that will be posted on 
the MEP Advisory Board website at http://www.nist.gov/mep/about/advisory-board.cfm.
    Questions from the public will not be considered during this 
period. Speakers who wish to expand upon their oral statements, those 
who wished to speak but could not be accommodated on the agenda, or 
those who are or were unable

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to attend in person are invited to submit written statements to the MEP 
Advisory Board, National Institute of Standards and Technology, 100 
Bureau Drive, Mail Stop 4800, Gaithersburg, Maryland 20899-4800, via 
fax at (301) 963-6556, or electronically by email to 
cheryl.gendron@nist.gov.
    Admittance Instructions: Anyone wishing to attend the MEP Advisory 
Board meeting must submit their name, email address, and phone number 
to Cheryl Gendron (Cheryl.Gendron@nist.gov or 301-975-2785) no later 
than Friday, September 7, 2018, 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time.

Phillip A. Singerman,
Associate Director for Innovation and Industry Services.
[FR Doc. 2018-18207 Filed 8-22-18; 8:45 am]
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Federal Register / Vol. 83, No. 164 / Thursday, August 23, 2018 / Notices 42639 producer/exporter under review to be as follows: Company Subsidy rate Jiangsu Tiangong Tools Company Limited, Tiangong Aihe Company Limited, Jiangsu Tiangong Group Company Limited, 24.04 percent Jiangsu Tiangong Mould Steel R&D Center Company Limited. Assessment Rates DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE Background information on the MEP Advisory Board is available at http:// Pursuant to section 19 CFR National Institute of Standards and www.nist.gov/mep/about/advisory- 351.214(k)(3)(iii), the amended final Technology board.cfm. results of this expedited review will not Pursuant to the Federal Advisory be the basis for the assessment of Manufacturing Extension Partnership Committee Act, as amended, 5 U.S.C. countervailing duties. Upon the Advisory Board App., notice is hereby given that the issuance of these final results, MEP Advisory Board will hold an open AGENCY: National Institute of Standards Commerce will instruct Customs and meeting on Wednesday, September 12, and Technology, Commerce. Border Protection (CBP) to collect cash 2018, from 2:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. ACTION: Notice of open meeting. Central Time. The meeting agenda will deposits of estimated countervailing duties for the companies subject to this include an update on Hollings MEP SUMMARY: The National Institute of expedited review, at the rates shown programmatic operations, as well as the Standards and Technology (NIST) above, on shipments of subject opportunity for the MEP Advisory announces that the Manufacturing merchandise entered, or withdrawn Board to provide guidance and advice Extension Partnership (MEP) Advisory from warehouse, for consumption on or on current activities related to the 2017– Board will hold an open meeting on after the date of publication of the final 2022 MEP National Network Strategic September 12, 2018. results of this expedited review. These Plan. The MEP Advisory Board will DATES: The meeting will be held provide input to NIST on supply chain cash deposit requirements, when Wednesday, September 12, 2018, from development with an emphasis on imposed, shall remain in effect until 2:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. Central Time. defense suppliers, in order to strengthen further notice. ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at the defense industrial base, and will Administrative Protective Orders the Kansas City Marriott Downtown in make recommendations on the the 12th Street Meeting Room, at 200 W development of research and This notice also serves as a reminder 12th St., Kansas City, MO 64105. Please performance metrics to support and to parties subject to administrative note admittance instructions in the enrich MEP Center evaluation. The MEP protective order (APO) of their SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section Advisory Board will also get updates on responsibility concerning the below. and discuss the Government destruction of proprietary information Accountability Office (GAO) Cost Share FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: disclosed under APO in accordance Report. The final agenda will be posted Cheryl L. Gendron, Manufacturing with 19 CFR 351.305(a)(3). Timely on the MEP Advisory Board website at Extension Partnership, National written notification of the return or http://www.nist.gov/mep/about/ Institute of Standards and Technology, advisory-board.cfm. destruction of APO materials or 100 Bureau Drive, Mail Stop 4800, conversion to judicial protective order is Individuals and representatives of Gaithersburg, Maryland 20899–4800, organizations who would like to offer hereby requested. Failure to comply telephone number (301) 975–2785, with the regulations and terms of an comments and suggestions related to the email: cheryl.gendron@nist.gov. MEP Advisory Board’s business are APO is a sanctionable violation. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The MEP invited to request a place on the agenda. Disclosure Advisory Board is authorized under Approximately 15 minutes will be Section 3003(d) of the America reserved for public comments at the end We intended to disclose the COMPETES Act (Pub. L. 110–69), as of the meeting. Speaking times will be calculations performed for these amended by the American Innovation assigned on a first-come, first-served amended final results to interested and Competitiveness Act, Public Law basis. The amount of time per speaker parties within five business days of the 114–329 sec. 501 (2017), and codified at will be determined by the number of date of publication of this notice in 15 U.S.C. 278k(m), in accordance with requests received but is likely to be no accordance with 19 CFR 351.224(b). the provisions of the Federal Advisory more than three to five minutes each. We are issuing and publishing these Committee Act, as amended, 5 U.S.C. Requests must be received in writing by results in accordance with sections App. The Hollings MEP Program 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time on August 31, 751(h) and 777(i)(1) of the Act, and 19 (Program) is a unique program, 2018 to be considered. The exact time CFR 351.224(e). consisting of Centers in all 50 states and for public comments will be included in Puerto Rico with partnerships at the the final agenda that will be posted on Dated: August 17, 2018. state, federal, and local levels. By the MEP Advisory Board website at Gary Taverman, statute, the MEP Advisory Board http://www.nist.gov/mep/about/ daltland on DSKBBV9HB2PROD with NOTICES Deputy Assistant Secretary for Antidumping provides the NIST Director with: (1) advisory-board.cfm. and Countervailing Duty Operations, Advice on the activities, plans, and Questions from the public will not be performing the non-exclusive functions and policies of the Program; (2) assessments considered during this period. Speakers duties of the Assistant Secretary for of the soundness of the plans and who wish to expand upon their oral Enforcement and Compliance. strategies of the Program; and (3) statements, those who wished to speak [FR Doc. 2018–18195 Filed 8–22–18; 8:45 am] assessments of current performance but could not be accommodated on the BILLING CODE 3510–DS–P against the plans of the Program. agenda, or those who are or were unable VerDate Sep<11>2014 19:43 Aug 22, 2018 Jkt 244001 PO 00000 Frm 00004 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 E:\FR\FM\23AUN1.SGM 23AUN1

42640 Federal Register / Vol. 83, No. 164 / Thursday, August 23, 2018 / Notices to attend in person are invited to submit Standard Time (HST; UTC–10:00). in the WCPO. The fishery developed in written statements to the MEP Advisory Please notify David O’Brien (see FOR the 1970s and early 1980s as some U.S. Board, National Institute of Standards FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT, below) tuna vessels moved west from fishing and Technology, 100 Bureau Drive, Mail by August 31, 2018, if you plan to grounds in the eastern Pacific. The Stop 4800, Gaithersburg, Maryland attend either or both webinars. vessels participating in this fishery 20899–4800, via fax at (301) 963–6556, Instructions for connecting or calling in currently are large: Between 175 and or electronically by email to to the webinars will be emailed to 260 feet in length with crews of between cheryl.gendron@nist.gov. meeting participants. Accommodations 19 and 40. Purse seining is fishing by Admittance Instructions: Anyone for persons with disabilities are setting a vertically oriented net around wishing to attend the MEP Advisory available; accommodation requests a school of fish, and then closing, or Board meeting must submit their name, should be directed to David O’Brien at ‘‘pursing’’, the bottom of the net to email address, and phone number to least 10 working days prior to the capture the fish. The vessels use purse Cheryl Gendron (Cheryl.Gendron@ webinar. seine nets up to about 6,500 feet long nist.gov or 301–975–2785) no later than and 600 feet deep and in recent years ADDRESSES: You may submit comments Friday, September 7, 2018, 5:00 p.m. (2013–2017) vessels set their nets, on on the scope of this EIS by either of the Eastern Time. average, once per fishing day. following methods: NMFS manages the fishery in Phillip A. Singerman, • Electronic submission: Submit all accordance with U.S. laws Associate Director for Innovation and electronic public comments via the implementing international agreements, Industry Services. Federal e-Rulemaking Portal. including the Treaty on Fisheries [FR Doc. 2018–18207 Filed 8–22–18; 8:45 am] 1. Go to www.regulations.gov/ Between the Governments of Certain #!docketDetail;D=NOAA-NMFS-2018- BILLING CODE 3510–13–P Pacific Island States and the 0062, 2. Click the ‘‘Comment Now!’’ icon, Government of the United States of complete the required fields, and America,1 also known as the South DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE Pacific Tuna Treaty (hereafter, Treaty), 3. Enter or attach your comments. and conservation and management National Oceanic and Atmospheric —OR— measures adopted by the Western and Administration • Mail: Submit written comments to Central Pacific Fisheries Commission Michael D. Tosatto, Regional RIN 0648—XG261 (hereafter, Commission or WCPFC). The Administrator, NMFS, Pacific Islands fishery operates in the exclusive U.S. Purse Seine Fishery in the Regional Office (PIRO), 1845 Wasp economic zones (EEZs) of the Pacific Western and Central Pacific Ocean; Blvd., Building 176, Honolulu, HI Island parties to the Treaty (hereafter, Notice of Intent To Prepare an 96818. Instructions: Comments sent by any PIPs) and that of the United States, as Environmental Impact Statement well as on the high seas in the WCPO. other method, to any other address or AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries individual, or received after the end of This EIS will address all U.S. tuna purse Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and the comment period might not be seine fisheries within the area of Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), considered by NMFS. All comments application of the Convention on the Commerce. received are a part of the public record Conservation and Management of and will generally be posted for public Highly Migratory Fish Stocks in the ACTION: Notice; intent to prepare an viewing on www.regulations.gov Western and Central Pacific Ocean; a environmental impact statement; map of which is available at the WCPFC announcement of public scoping period; without change. All personal identifying information (e.g., name and address), website at: www.wcpfc.int/doc/ request for comments. convention-area-map. confidential business information, or SUMMARY: NMFS is gathering The U.S. purse seine fleet is not the otherwise sensitive information information necessary to prepare an only fishing fleet active in this region. submitted voluntarily by the sender will Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) Other major flags of purse seine fishing be publicly accessible. Do not submit for future management actions for the vessels in the region include: Japan, confidential business information, or U.S. purse seine fishery in the western Kiribati, Korea, Papua New Guinea, and otherwise sensitive or protected and central Pacific Ocean (WCPO). This Taiwan. The U.S. fleet’s fishing information. NMFS will accept notice of intent to prepare an EIS activities accounted for approximately anonymous comments (enter ‘‘N/A’’ in represents the beginning of the public 14 percent of the total purse seine the required fields if you wish to remain scoping process and invites interested fishing effort—measured in fishing anonymous). parties to provide comments on Copies of this document can be days—in the WCPO from 2010 through alternatives to be considered in an EIS obtained from Michael D. Tosatto, 2016.2 The regulations under which the U.S. and to identify potential issues, Regional Administrator, NMFS PIRO fleet operates require changes in concerns, and any reasonable additional (see address above) and are available at response to new decisions of the alternatives that should be considered. www.regulations.gov/#!docketDetail; DATES: To ensure consideration during D=NOAA-NMFS-2018-0062. 1 Parties to the Treaty include: Australia, Cook the development of this EIS, written FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Republic of comments on the scope and alternatives David O’Brien, NMFS PIRO, at Fiji, Republic of Kiribati, Republic of Marshall to be considered in the EIS must be David.S.OBrien@noaa.gov, or at (808) Islands, Republic of Nauru, New Zealand, Niue, daltland on DSKBBV9HB2PROD with NOTICES Republic of Palau, Independent State of Papua New submitted no later than October 8, 2018. 725–5038. Guinea, Independent State of Samoa, Solomon Public comments will also be SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Islands, Kingdom of Tonga, Tuvalu, Republic of accepted during two webinars Vanuatu and the United States of America. scheduled for 9:30–11:30 a.m. Background 2 Pacific Community—Oceanic Fisheries Programme. 2017. WCPFC14 Information Papers September 11, 2018 and 11:30 a.m.–1:30 Purse seine vessels flagged to the 05—Revision 1 (20 Nov 2017) Catch and Effort p.m., September 14, 2018. Both United States fish for skipjack tuna Tables on Tropical Tuna CMMs. Available at: webinars are scheduled in Hawai1i (Katsuwonus pelamis) and other tunas www.wcpfc.int/node/30076. VerDate Sep<11>2014 19:43 Aug 22, 2018 Jkt 244001 PO 00000 Frm 00005 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 E:\FR\FM\23AUN1.SGM 23AUN1


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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 Wednesday, September 12, 2018, from 2:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. Central Time.
ContactCheryl L. Gendron, Manufacturing Extension Partnership, National Institute of Standards and Technology, 100 Bureau Drive, Mail Stop 4800, Gaithersburg, Maryland 20899-4800, telephone number (301) 975-2785, email: [email protected]
FR Citation83 FR 42639 
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