Announcement of a Meeting To Discuss an Opportunity To Join a Cooperative Research and Development Consortium for Developing a Methodology for Evaluating Seams of Rubber Roofing Membranes

Riepilogo

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) invites interested parties to attend a meeting on October 11, 1994 to discuss the possibility of setting up a cooperative research consortium on the development of a methodology for evaluating the long-term performance of tape-bonded seams of vulcanized-rubber roofing membranes. Parties interested in participating in the consortium should be prepared to invest adequate resources in the collaboration and be firmly committed to the goal of developing performance evaluation methodology. 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 provide ``personnel, service, facilities, equipment or other resources with or without reimbursement (but not funds to non-federal parties)''--to the cooperative research program. The meeting will be held on October 11, 1994 at 8:30 a.m., room B221, Building 226 at NIST in Gaithersburg, MD, for interested parties. The meeting will discuss the