[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 216 (Friday, November 7, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Pages 60218-60219]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-29404]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Bureau of Export Administration


Regulations and Procedures Technical Advisory Committee; Notice 
of Partially Closed Meeting

    A meeting of the Regulations and Procedures Technical Advisory 
Committee will be held December 9, 1997, 9:00 a.m., in the Herbert C. 
Hoover Building, Room 3884, 14th Street between Constitution and 
Pennsylvania Avenues, N.W., Washington, D.C. The Committee advises the 
Office of the Assistant Secretary for Export Administration on 
implementation of the Export Administration Regulations (EAR) and 
provides for continuing review to update the EAR as needed.

Agenda

Open Session

    1. Opening remarks by the Chairperson.
    2. Presentation of papers or comments by the public.
    3. Update on the encryption regulation.
    4. Update on the Wassenaar Arrangement implementation regulation.
    5. Discussion on the ``deemed export'' issue.
    6. Discussion on the Enhanced Proliferation Control Initiative and 
continued publication of Entities of Concern.
    7. Update on the Automated Export System.
    8. Discussion on efforts to conform the Foreign Trade Statistics 
Regulations and the Export Administration Regulations on export 
clearance requirements.

Closed Session

    9. Discussion of matters properly classified under Executive Order 
12958, dealing with the U.S. export control program and strategic 
criteria related thereto.
    The General Session of the meeting will be open to the public and a 
limited number of seats will be available. To the extent that time 
permits, members of the public may present oral statements to the 
Committee. Written statements may be submitted at any time before or 
after the meeting. However, to facilitate the distribution of public 
presentation materials to the Committee members, the Committee suggests 
that presenters forward the public presentation materials two weeks 
prior to the meeting date to the following address: Ms. Lee Ann 
Carpenter, OAS/EA/BXA

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MS: 3886C, 14th & Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W., U.S. Department of 
Commerce, Washington, D.C. 20230.
    The Assistant Secretary for Administration, with the concurrence of 
the delegate of the General Counsel, formally determined on December 
16, 1996, pursuant to Section 10(d) of the Federal Advisory Committee 
Act, as amended, that the series of meetings or portions of meetings of 
the Committee and of any Subcommittees thereof, dealing with the 
classified materials listed in 5 U.S.C. 552b(c)(1) shall be exempt from 
the provisions relating to public meetings found in section 10(a)(1) 
and (a)(3), of the Federal Advisory Committee Act. The remaining series 
of meetings or portions thereof will be open to the public. A copy of 
the Notice of Determination to close meetings or portions of meetings 
of the Committee is available for public inspection and copying in the 
Central Reference and Records Inspection Facility, Room 6020, U.S. 
Department of Commerce, Washington, D.C. For further information, call 
Lee Ann Carpenter at (202) 482-2583.

    Dated: November 3, 1997.
Lee Ann Carpenter,
Director, Technical Advisory Committee Unit.
[FR Doc. 97-29404 Filed 11-6-97; 8:45 am]
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