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Vol. 65, No. 231

Thursday, November 30, 2000

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Bureau of Export Administration

Materials Technical Advisory

Committee; Notice of Partially Closed

Meeting

The Materials Technical Advisory

Committee will meet on December 14,

2000, 10:30 a.m., Herbert C. Hoover

Building, Room 3884, 14th Street

between Constitution & Pennsylvania

Avenues, NW., Washington, DC. The

Committee advises the Office of the

Assistant Secretary for Export

Administration with respect to technical

questions that affect the level of export

controls applicable to materials and

related technology.

Agenda

Public Session

1. Election of Co-Chairman.

2. Presentation of papers and

comments by the public.

3. Update on new and pending

regulations.

4. Update on Biological Weapons

Convention protocol.

5. Update on Chemical Weapons

Convention implementation.

Closed Session

6. Discussion of matters properly

classified under Executive Order 12958,

dealing with U.S. export control

programs and strategic criteria related

thereto.

A limited number of seats will be

available during the public session of

the meeting. Reservations are not

accepted. To the extent 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 distribution of

public presentation materials to

Committee members, the materials

should be forwarded prior to the

meeting to the address below: Ms. Lee

Ann Carpenter, OSIES/EA/BXA MS:

3876, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14

St. & Constitution Ave., NW.,

Washington, DC 20230.

The Assistant Secretary for

Administration, with the concurrence of

the delegate of the General Counsel,

formally determined on March 7, 2000,

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

Subcommittee thereof dealing with the

classified materials listed in 5 U.S.C.

552(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,

DC. For more information or copies of

the minutes call Ms. Lee Ann Carpenter

at (202) 482–2583.

Dated: November 22, 2000.

Lee Ann Carpenter,

Committee Liaison Officer.

[FR Doc. 00–30547 Filed 11–29–00; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 3510–JT–M

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

[Docket 62–2000]

Foreign-Trade Zone 104A—Savannah

Airport Commission; Expansion of

Facilities and Manufacturing

Authority—Subzone 104A, Merck &

Co., Inc. Plant (Pharmaceuticals),

Dougherty County, GA

An application has been submitted to

the Foreign-Trade Zones Board (the

Board) by the Savannah Airport

Commission, grantee of FTZ 104,

pursuant to § 400.32(b)(1) of the Board’s

regulations (15 CFR part 400),

requesting on behalf of Merck & Co., Inc.

(Merck), to add capacity and to expand

the scope of manufacturing authority

under zone procedures at Subzone

104A, at the Merck pharmaceutical

plant in Dougherty County, Georgia. It

was formally filed on November 17,

2000.

Subzone 104A was approved by the

Board in 1995 at a single site (800 acres,

283,910 sq. ft., 35 bldgs.) located at 3517

Radium Springs Road, Dougherty

County, Georgia, 7 miles southeast of

Albany and some 180 miles southwest

of Savannah. The facility (570

employees) is used to produce a range

of human health products. Merck is now

proposing to add 193 acres and 41

buildings and to expand existing

buildings. The proposed subzone would

then include 76 bldgs. consisting of

606,492 sq. ft. (a 114% increase) on 993

acres.

The application also requests to

expand the scope of authority for

manufacturing activity conducted under

FTZ procedures at Subzone 104A to

include additional general categories of

inputs that have recently been approved

by the Board for other pharmaceutical

plants. They include chemically pure

sugars, empty capsules for

pharmaceutical use, protein

concentrates, natural magnesium

phosphates and carbonates, gypsum,

anhydrite and plasters, petroleum jelly,

paraffin and waxes, sulfuric acid, other

inorganic acids or compounds of

nonmetals, ammonia, zinc oxide,

titanium oxides, fluorides, chlorates,

sulfates, salts of oxometallic acids,

radioactive chemical elements,

compounds of rare earth metals, acyclic

hydrocarbons, derivatives of phenols or

peroxides, acetals and hemiacetals,

phosphoric esters and their salts, diazocompounds, glands for therapeutic uses,

wadding, gauze and bandages,

pharmaceutical glaze, hair preparations,

lubricating preparations, albumins,

prepared glues and adhesives, catalytic

preparations, diagnostic or laboratory

reagents, prepared binders, acrylic

polymers, self-adhesive plates and

sheets, other articles of vulcanized

rubber, plastic cases, cartons, boxes,

printed books, brochures and similar

printed matter, carboys, bottles, and

flasks, stoppers, caps, and lids,

aluminum foil, tin plates and sheets,

taps, cocks and valves, and medical

instruments and appliances.

FTZ procedures would exempt Merck

from Customs duty payments on the

foreign components used in export

activity. On its domestic sales, the

company would be able to elect the duty

rates that applies to finished products