[Federal Register: March 18, 2005 (Volume 70, Number 52)]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

National Institute of Standards and Technology


Announcement of a Meeting To Explore Feasibility of Establishing
a NIST/Industry Consortium on Fire Resistive Materials for Structural
Steel

AGENCY: National Institute of Standards and Technology, Commerce.

ACTION: Notice of public meeting.

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SUMMARY: The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
invites interested parties to attend a pre-consortium meeting on July
14, 2005 to be held on the NIST campus. The goal of the one-day meeting
is to evaluate industry interest in creating a NIST/industry consortium
focused on the materials science of fire resistive materials for
structural steel. The goals of such a consortium would include the
development of measurement methods for the thermal and adhesion
properties of fire resistive materials, tools for the characterization
of their three-dimensional microstructure, and linkages between
microstructure and the above-mentioned performance properties. The
consortium would be supervised and administered by NIST. Consortium
research and development would be conducted by NIST staff members along
with at least one technical representative from each participating
member company. It is estimated that membership fees for participation
in the consortium would be on the order of Twenty-five Thousand
($25,000) per year. The initial term of the consortium is intended to
be three years.

DATES: The meeting will take place on July 14, 2005 at 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Interested parties should contact NIST to confirm their interest at the
address, telephone number or FAX number shown below.

ADDRESSES: The meeting will take place at the National Institute of
Standards and Technology (NIST), 100 Bureau Drive, Administration
Building (101), Lecture Room B, Gaithersburg, MD 20899.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dale P. Bentz, Emmett P. O'Brien, or
Christopher C. White, Building Research (226), Room B362, National
Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Gaithersburg, MD 20899-
8615. Telephone: 301-975-5865; FAX: 301-990-6891; e-mail:
dale.bentz@nist.gov, emmett.obrien@nist.gov,

christopher.white@nist.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Any program undertaken will be within the
scope and confines of The Federal Technology Transfer Act of 1986 (Pub.
L. 99-502, 15 U.S.C. 3710a), which provides federal laboratories
including NIST, with the authority to enter into cooperative research
agreements with qualified parties. Under this law, NIST may contribute
personnel, equipment, and facilities but no funds to the cooperative
research program. This is not a grant program.

    Dated: March 10, 2005.
Hratch G. Semerjian,
Acting Director.
[FR Doc. 05-5397 Filed 3-17-05; 8:45 am]

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