Office of Technology Policy; National Medal of Technology Nomination Evaluation Committee; Notice of Determination for Closure of Meeting

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Technology Administration

Office of Technology Policy; National Medal of Technology

Nomination Evaluation Committee; Notice of Determination for Closure of

Meeting

The National Medal of Technology Nomination Evaluation Committee

has scheduled a meeting for July 13, 1999.

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 July 13, 1999. The meeting will be held in Room 1410 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, 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 of 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

July 13, 1999, 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 like to significantly

frustrate implementation of a proposed agency action.

Due to the 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).

Dated: June 25, 1999.

Kelly H. Carnes,

Deputy Assistant Secretary, Office of Technology Policy.

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