Under Secretary for Technology; National Medal of Technology Nomination Evaluation Committee; Determination for Closure of Meeting

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Technology Administration

Under Secretary for Technology; National Medal of Technology

Nomination Evaluation Committee; Determination for Closure of Meeting

The National Medal of Technology Nomination Evaluation Committee

has scheduled a meeting for August 25, 1998.

The Committee was established to assist the Department in executing

its responsibilities under 15 U.S.C. 3711. Under this provision, the

Secretary is responsible for recommending to the President prospective

recipients of the National Medal of Technology. The committee's

recommendations are made after reviewing all nominations received in

response to a public solicitation. The Committee is chartered to have

twelve members.

Time and Place: The meeting will begin at 10 a.m. and end at 4 p.m.

on August 25, 1998. The meeting will be held in Room 4824 at the U.S.

Department of Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution Avenue, NW.,

Washington, DC 20230. For further information contact: Allison

Rosenberg, Director, National Medal of Technology, U.S. Department of

Commerce, 14th and Constitution Avenue, NW., Herbert C. Hoover

Building, Room 4226, Washington, DC 20230, Ph: (202-482-5572).

If a member of the public would like to submit written comments

concerning the committee's affairs at any time before and after the

meeting, written comments should be addressed to the Director of the

National Medal of Technology as indicated above.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The meeting will be closed to discuss the

relative merits of persons and companies nominated for the Medal.

Public disclosure of this information would be likely to significantly

frustrate implementation of the National Medal of Technology program

because premature publicity about candidates under consideration for

the Medal, who may or may not ultimately receive the award, would be

likely to discourage nominations for the Medal.

Accordingly, I find and determine, pursuant to Section 10(d) of the

Federal Advisory Committee Act, 5 U.S.C. app. 2, as amended, that the

August 25, 1998, meeting may be closed to the public in accordance with

Section 552b(c)(9)(B) of Title 5, United States Code because revealing

information about Medal candidates would be likely to significantly

frustrate implementation of a proposed agency action.

Due to closure of the meeting, copies of the minutes of the meeting

will not be available, however a copy of the Notice of Determination

will be available for public inspection and copying in the office of

Allison Rosenberg, Director, National Medal of Technology, 14th and

Constitution Avenue, NW., Herbert Hoover Building, Room 4226,

Washington, DC 20230, (Ph: 202-482-5572).

Kelly H. Carnes,

Deputy Assistant Secretary for Technology Policy.

[FR Doc. 98-22282 Filed 8-18-98; 8:45 am]

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