National Endowment for the Arts; Determination of the Chairperson of the National Endowment for the Arts Regarding Potential Closure of Portions of Meetings of the National Council on the Arts, 14846-14847 [E8-5527]
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Section 10 of the Act specifies that
department and agency heads shall
make adequate provisions for
participation by the public in the
activities of advisory committees, except
to the extent a determination is made in
writing by the department or agency
head that a portion of an advisory
committee meeting may be closed to the
public in accordance with subsection (c)
of section 552b of Title 5, United States
Code (the Government in the Sunshine
Act).
It is the policy of the National
Endowment for the Arts to make the
fullest possible disclosure of records to
the public, limited only by obligations
of confidentiality and administrative
necessity. Consistent with this policy,
meetings of the following Endowment
advisory committees will be open to the
public except for portions dealing with
the review, discussion, evaluation, and/
or ranking of grant applications: Arts
Advisory Panel and the Federal
Advisory Committee on International
Exhibitions.
The portions of the meetings
involving the review, discussion,
evaluation and ranking of grant
applications may be closed to the public
for the following reasons:
The Endowment advisory committees
listed above review and discuss
applications for financial assistance.
While the majority of applications
received by the agency are submitted by
organizations, all of the applications
contain the names of and personal
information relating to individuals who
will be working on the proposed project.
In reviewing the applications,
committee members discuss the abilities
of the listed individuals in their fields,
the reputations of the listed individuals
among their colleagues, the ability of the
listed individuals to carry through on
projects they start, and their background
and performance. Consideration of these
matters is essential to the review of the
artistic excellence and artistic merit of
an application.
Consequently, in the interest of
meeting our obligation to consider
artistic excellence and artistic merit
when reviewing applications for
financial assistance:
It is hereby determined in accordance
with the provisions of section 10(d) of
the Act that the disclosure of
information regarding the review,
discussion, evaluation, and ranking of
applications for financial assistance as
outlined herein is likely to disclose
information of a personal nature the
disclosure of which would constitute a
clearly unwarranted invasion of
personal privacy.
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Therefore, in light of the above, I have
determined that the above referenced
meetings or portions thereof, devoted to
review, discussion, evaluation, and/or
ranking of applications for financial
assistance may be closed to the public
in accordance with subsection (c)(6) of
section 552b of Title 5, United States
Code.
The staff of each committee shall
prepare a summary of any meeting or
portion not open to the public within
three (3) business days following the
conclusion of the meeting of the
National Council on the Arts
considering applications recommended
by such committees. The summaries
shall be consistent with the
considerations that justified the closing
of the meetings.
All other portions of the meetings of
these advisory committees shall be open
to the public unless the Chairperson of
the National Endowment for the Arts or
a designee determines otherwise in
accordance with section 10(d) of the
Act.
The Panel Coordinator shall be
responsible for publication in the
Federal Register or, as appropriate, in
local media, of a notice of all advisory
committee meetings. Such notice shall
be published in advance of the meetings
and contain:
1. Name of the committee and its
purposes;
2. Date and time of the meeting, and,
if the meeting is open to the public, its
location and agenda; and
3. A statement that the meeting is
open to the public, or, if the meeting or
any portion thereof is not to be open to
the public, a statement to that effect.
The Panel Coordinator is designated
as the person from whom lists of
committee members may be obtained
and from whom minutes of open
meetings or open portions thereof may
be requested.
Guidelines
Any interested person may attend
meetings of advisory committees that
are open to the public.
Members of the public attending a
meeting will be permitted to participate
in the committee’s discussion at the
discretion of the chairperson of the
committee, if the chairperson is a fulltime Federal employee; if the
chairperson is not a full-time Federal
employee then public participation will
be permitted at the chairperson’s
discretion with the approval of the fulltime Federal employee in attendance at
the meeting in compliance with the
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Dated: February 28, 2008.
Dana Gioia,
Chairman, National Endowment for the Arts.
Dated: March 14, 2008.
Kathy Plowitz-Worden,
Committee Management Officer.
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ARTS AND THE HUMANITIES
National Endowment for the Arts;
Determination of the Chairperson of
the National Endowment for the Arts
Regarding Potential Closure of
Portions of Meetings of the National
Council on the Arts
Section 6(f) of the National
Foundation on the Arts and the
Humanities Act of 1965, as amended (20
U.S.C. 951 et. seq.) authorizes the
National Council on the Arts to review
applications for financial assistance to
the National Endowment for the Arts
and make recommendations to the
Chairperson.
The Federal Advisory Committee Act
(FACA), as amended (Pub. L. 92–463)
governs the formation, use, conduct,
management, and accessibility to the
public of committees formed to advise
the Federal Government. Section 10 of
that Act directs meetings of advisory
committees to be open to the public,
except where the head of the agency to
which the advisory committee reports
determines in writing that a portion of
a meeting may be closed to the public
consistent with subsection (c) of section
552b of Title 5, United States Code (the
Government in the Sunshine Act.)
It is the policy of the National
Endowment for the Arts that meetings of
the National Council on the Arts be
conducted in open session including
those parts during which applications
are reviewed. However, in recognition
that the Endowment is required to
consider the artistic excellence and
artistic merit of applications for
financial assistance and that
consideration of individual applications
may require a discussion of matters
such as an individual artist’s abilities,
reputation among colleagues, or
professional background and
performance, I have determined to
reserve the right to close limited
portions of Council meetings if such
information is to be discussed. The
purpose of the closure is to protect
information of a personal nature where
disclosure would constitute a clearly
unwarranted invasion of personal
privacy. Closure for this purpose is
authorized by subsection (c)(6) of
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section 552b of Title 5, United States
Code.
Additionally, the Council will
consider prospective nominees for the
National Medal of Arts award in order
to advise the President of the United
States in his final selection of National
Medal of Arts recipients. During these
sessions, similar information of a
personal nature will be discussed. As
with applications for financial
assistance, disclosure of this
information about individuals who are
under consideration for the award
would constitute a clearly unwarranted
invasion of personal privacy.
Therefore, in light of the above, I have
determined that those portions of
Council meetings devoted to
consideration of prospective nominees
for the National Medal of Arts award
may be closed to the public. Closure for
these purposes is authorized by
subsections (c)(6) of section 552b of
Title 5, United States Code. A record
shall be maintained of any closed
portion of the Council meeting. Further,
in accordance with the FACA, a notice
of any intent to close any portion of the
Council meeting will be published in
the Federal Register.
Dated: February 28, 2008.
Dana Gioia,
Chairman, National Endowment for the Arts.
Dated: March 14, 2008.
Kathy Plowitz-Worden,
Committee Management Officer.
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Notice of the Availability of a Draft
Programmatic Environmental
Assessment
National Science Foundation.
ACTION: Notice of request for public
comment on a Draft Programmatic
Environmental Assessment (PEA) for
the Ocean Observatories Initiative
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SUMMARY: The National Science
Foundation (NSF) gives notice of the
request for public comment on a Draft
PEA for the OOI.
The Division of Ocean Sciences in the
Directorate for Geosciences (GEO/OCE)
has prepared a Draft PEA for the OOI,
a multi-million dollar Major Research
Equipment and Facilities Construction
effort intended to put moored and cable
infrastructure in discrete locations in
the coastal and global ocean. The Draft
PEA is available for public comment for
a 30-day period.
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Comments must be submitted on
or before April 18, 2008.
ADDRESSES: Copies of the Draft PEA are
available upon request from: Dr. Shelby
Walker, National Science Foundation,
Division of Ocean Sciences, 4201
Wilson Blvd., Suite 725, Arlington, VA
22230; Telephone: (703) 292–8580. The
Draft PEA is also available under
Additional OCE Resources at the
following website: https://www.nsf.gov/
div/index.jsp?div=OCE.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dr.
Shelby Walker, National Science
Foundation, Division of Ocean Sciences,
4201 Wilson Blvd., Suite 725, Arlington,
VA 22230. Telephone: (703) 292–8580.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Oceanographic research has long relied
on research vessel cruises (expeditions)
as the predominate means to make
direct measurements of the ocean.
Remote sensing (use of satellites) has
greatly advanced abilities to measure
ocean surface characteristics over
extended periods of time. A major
advancement for oceanographic
research methods is the ability to make
sustained, long-term, and adaptive
measurements from the surface to the
ocean bottom. ‘‘Ocean Observatories’’
are now being developed to further this
goal. Building upon recent technology
advances and lessons learned from
prototype ocean observatories, NSF’s
Ocean Sciences Division (OCE) is
proposing to fund the OOI, an
interactive, globally distributed and
integrated infrastructure that will be the
backbone for the next generation of
ocean sensors and resulting complex
ocean studies presently unachievable.
The OOI reflects a community-wide,
national and international scientific
planning effort and is a key NSF
contribution to the broader effort to
establish focused national ocean
observatory capabilities through the
Integrated Ocean Observing System
(IOOS).
The OOI infrastructure would include
cables, buoys, deployment platforms,
moorings, junction boxes, electric power
generation (solar, wind, fuel cell, and/or
diesel), and two-way communications
systems. This large-scale infrastructure
would support sensors located at the sea
surface, in the water column, and at or
beneath the seafloor. The OOI would
also support related elements, such as
unified project management, data
dissemination and archiving, modeling
of oceanographic processes, and
education and outreach activities
essential to the long-term success of
ocean science. It would include the first
U.S. multi-node cabled observatory;
fixed and relocatable coastal arrays
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coupled with mobile assets; and
advanced buoys for interdisciplinary
measurements, especially for datalimited areas of the Southern Ocean and
other high-latitude locations.
The OOI design is based upon three
main technical elements across global,
regional, and coastal scales. At the
global and coastal scales, moorings
would provide locally generated power
to seafloor and platform instruments
and sensors and use a satellite link to
shore and the Internet. Up to four
Global-Scale Nodes (GSN) or buoy sites
are proposed for ocean sensing in the
Eastern Pacific and Atlantic oceans. The
Regional-Scale Nodes (RSN) off the
coast of Washington and Oregon would
consist of seafloor observatories with
various chemical, biological, and
geological sensors linked with
submarine cables to shore that provide
power and Internet connectivity.
Coastal-Scale Nodes (CSN) would be
represented by the fixed Endurance
Array, consisting of a combination of
cabled nodes and stand-alone moorings,
off the coast of Washington and Oregon,
and the relocatable Pioneer Array off the
coast of Massachusetts, consisting of a
suite of stand-alone moorings. In
addition, there would be an integration
of mobile assets such as autonomous
underwater vehicles (AUVs) and/or
gliders with the GSN, RSN, and CSN
observatories.
The NSF invites interested members
of the public to provide written
comments on this Draft PEA. Comments
can be submitted to: Dr. Shelby Walker,
National Science Foundation, Division
of Ocean Sciences, 4201 Wilson Blvd.,
Suite 725, Arlington, VA 22230;
Telephone: (703) 292–8580; or
electronically at PEAcomments@nsf.gov.
Shelby Walker,
Associate Program Director, Ocean
Technology and Interdisciplinary
Coordination, Division of Ocean Sciences
National Science Foundation.
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NATIONAL FOUNDATION ON THE ARTS AND THE HUMANITIES
National Endowment for the Arts; Determination of the Chairperson
of the National Endowment for the Arts Regarding Potential Closure of
Portions of Meetings of the National Council on the Arts
Section 6(f) of the National Foundation on the Arts and the
Humanities Act of 1965, as amended (20 U.S.C. 951 et. seq.) authorizes
the National Council on the Arts to review applications for financial
assistance to the National Endowment for the Arts and make
recommendations to the Chairperson.
The Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA), as amended (Pub. L. 92-
463) governs the formation, use, conduct, management, and accessibility
to the public of committees formed to advise the Federal Government.
Section 10 of that Act directs meetings of advisory committees to be
open to the public, except where the head of the agency to which the
advisory committee reports determines in writing that a portion of a
meeting may be closed to the public consistent with subsection (c) of
section 552b of Title 5, United States Code (the Government in the
Sunshine Act.)
It is the policy of the National Endowment for the Arts that
meetings of the National Council on the Arts be conducted in open
session including those parts during which applications are reviewed.
However, in recognition that the Endowment is required to consider the
artistic excellence and artistic merit of applications for financial
assistance and that consideration of individual applications may
require a discussion of matters such as an individual artist's
abilities, reputation among colleagues, or professional background and
performance, I have determined to reserve the right to close limited
portions of Council meetings if such information is to be discussed.
The purpose of the closure is to protect information of a personal
nature where disclosure would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion
of personal privacy. Closure for this purpose is authorized by
subsection (c)(6) of
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section 552b of Title 5, United States Code.
Additionally, the Council will consider prospective nominees for
the National Medal of Arts award in order to advise the President of
the United States in his final selection of National Medal of Arts
recipients. During these sessions, similar information of a personal
nature will be discussed. As with applications for financial
assistance, disclosure of this information about individuals who are
under consideration for the award would constitute a clearly
unwarranted invasion of personal privacy.
Therefore, in light of the above, I have determined that those
portions of Council meetings devoted to consideration of prospective
nominees for the National Medal of Arts award may be closed to the
public. Closure for these purposes is authorized by subsections (c)(6)
of section 552b of Title 5, United States Code. A record shall be
maintained of any closed portion of the Council meeting. Further, in
accordance with the FACA, a notice of any intent to close any portion
of the Council meeting will be published in the Federal Register.
Dated: February 28, 2008.
Dana Gioia,
Chairman, National Endowment for the Arts.
Dated: March 14, 2008.
Kathy Plowitz-Worden,
Committee Management Officer.
[FR Doc. E8-5527 Filed 3-18-08; 8:45 am]
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