 The report was issued on 30 September 1978 and published in the Federal Register on 18 April 1979.The report took its name from the Belmont Conference Center where the document was drafted in part.The Belmont Conference Center, once a part of the Smithsonian Institution, is in Elkridge, Maryland, 10 miles south of Baltimore, and until the end of 2010 was operated by Howard Community College.