[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 95 (Tuesday, May 18, 1999)] [Notices] [Page 26944] From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov] [FR Doc No: 99-12510] ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 partially closed meeting.
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Summary
Pursuant to the Federal Advisory Committee Act, 5 U.S.C. app. 2, notice is hereby given that the Visiting Committee on Advanced Technology, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), will meet Tuesday, June 8, 1999 from 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. The Visiting Committee on Advanced Technology is composed of fifteen members appointed by the Director of NIST; who are eminent in such fields as business, research, new product development, engineering, labor, education, management consulting, environment, and international relations. The purpose of this meeting is to review and make recommendations regarding general policy for the Institute, 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 NIST programs; NRC Assessment Panels discussion; Physics Laboratory's The Atom Laser; Information Technology Laboratory's Active Networks; Manufacturing Engineering Laboratory's Meso/Micro/Nano Technology; and a lab tour. Discussions scheduled to begin at 8:30 a.m. and to end at 9:10 a.m. and on June 8, 1999, on staffing of management positions at NIST and the NIST budget, including funding levels of the Advanced Technology Program and the Manufacturing Extension Partnership will be closed.
Dates
The meeting will convene June 8, 1999, at 8:30 a.m.and will adjourn at 5:00 p.m. on June 8, 1999.
Addresses
The meeting will be held in the Employees' Lounge (seating capacity 80, includes 38 participants), Administration Building, at NIST, Gaithersburg, Maryland.
For Further Information Contact
Dr. Brian C. Belanger, Executive Director, Visiting Committee on Advanced Technology, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD 20899-1004, telephone number (301) 975-4720.
Supplementary Information
The Assistant Secretary for Administration, with the concurrence of the General Counsel, formally determined on August 7, 1998, that portions of the meeting of the Visiting Committee on Advanced Technology which involve discussion of proposed funding of the Advanced Technology Program and the Manufacturing Extension Partnership Program may be closed in accordance with 5 U.S.C. 552b(c)(9)(B), because those portions of the meetings will divulge matters the premature disclosure of which would be likely to significantly frustrate implementation of proposed agency actions; and that portions of meetings which involve discussion of the staffing issues of management and other positions at NIST may be closed in accordance with 5 U.S.C. 552b(c)(6), because divulging information discussed in those portions of the meetings is likely to reveal information of a personal nature where disclosure would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of personal privacy.
Dated: May 10, 1999. Karen H. Brown, Deputy Director. [FR Doc. 99-12510 Filed 5-17-99; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 3510-13-M