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NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION

[Notice 99-121]

 
NASA Advisory Council, Life and Microgravity Sciences and 
Applications Advisory Committee Commercial Advisory Subcommittee; 
Meeting

AGENCY: National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

ACTION: Notice of meeting.

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SUMMARY: In accordance with the Federal Advisory Committee Act, Pub. L. 
92-463, as amended, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration 
announces a meeting of the NASA Advisory Council, Life and Microgravity 
Sciences and Applications Advisory Committee, Commercial Advisory 
Subcommittee.

DATES: Wednesday, October 20, 1999, 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

ADDRESSES: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Room MIC-7, 
300 E Street, SW, Washington, DC 20546.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. Candace Livingston, Code UP, 
National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Washington, DC 20546, 
202-358-0697.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The meeting will be open to the public up to 
the seating capacity of the room. The agenda for the meeting is as 
follows:

--NASA Roles and Responsibilities regarding Commercialization.
--Director, Space Utilization and Product Development's appointment, 
responsibilities, priorities, and his view of the CAS role.
--Assistant to the Administrator for Commercialization's role and 
responsibilities.
--Performance Targets and the CAS responsibility to evaluate them.
--Report on the Ad Hoc Committee to review the proposed Environmental 
Systems Commercial Space Technology Center. Develop criteria for 
evaluating business plans.
--Joint meeting with the Life Sciences Advisory Committee on Wednesday 
morning, October 20 to discuss what the 30% reserve for commercial 
utilization of the ISS actually means, and what plans and opportunities 
there are to avoid redundancies and leverage resources of both 
commercial and ``scientific'' payloads and experiments.
--Environmental Commercial Space Centers.
--Leveraging and identifying opportunities for joint research with 
Scientific Communities.

    It is imperative that the meeting be held on this date to 
accommodate the scheduling priorities of the key participants. Visitors 
will be requested to sign a visitor's register.

    Dated: September 23, 1999.
Matthew M. Crouch,
Advisory Committee Management Officer, National Aeronautics and Space 
Administration.
[FR Doc. 99-25243 Filed 9-28-99; 8:45 am]
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