Federal Register / Vol. 66, No. 34 / Tuesday, February 20, 2001 / Notices 10875

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Bureau of Export Administration

Regulations and Procedures Technical

Advisory Committee; Notice of

Partially Closed Meeting

The Regulations and Procedures

Technical Advisory Committee (RPTAC)

will meet March 6, 2001, 9 a.m., Room

3884, in the Herbert C. Hoover Building,

14th Street between Constitution and

Pennsylvania Avenues, NW.,

Washington, DC. 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

Public Session

1. Opening remarks by the Chairman.

2. Presentation of papers or comments

by the public.

3. Update on pending regulations.

4. Discussion of deemed export rule/

status of DEL process.

5. Update on Bureau of Export

Administration initiatives.

Closed Session

6. Discussion of matters properly

classified under Executive Order

12958, dealing with the U.S. export

control program and strategic criteria

related thereto.

A limited number of seats will be

available for the public session.

Reservations are not accepted. To the

extent that time permits, members of the

public may present oral statements to

the Committee. The public may submit

written statements 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 prior to the meeting to the

following address: Ms. Lee Ann

Carpenter, OSIES/EA/BXA MS:3876,

14th St. & Constitution Ave., NW., U.S.

Department of Commerce, Washington,

DC 20230.

The Assistant Secretary for

Administration, with the concurrence of

the delegate of the General Counsel,

formally determined on February 12,

2001, 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 10(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, call Lee Ann

Carpenter at (202) 482–2583.

Dated: February 13, 2001.

Lee Ann Carpenter,

Committee Liaison Officer.

[FR Doc. 01–4065 Filed 2–16–01; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 3510–JT–M

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Bureau of Export Administration

National Defense Stockpile Market

Impact Committee Request for Public

Comments on the Potential Market

Impact of Proposed Stockpile Sales of

Palladium

AGENCY: U.S. Department of Commerce.

ACTION: Notice of request for public

comment on the potential market

impact of a proposed increase in the

disposal level of palladium from the

National Defense Stockpile under the

Fiscal Year (FY) 2001 Annual Materials

Plan (AMP) and the proposed FY 2002

AMP.

SUMMARY: This notice is to advise the

public that the National Defense

Stockpile Market Impact Committee (cochaired by the Departments of

Commerce and State) is seeking public

comments on the potential market

impact of a proposed increase in the

disposal of palladium from the National

Defense Stockpile under the Fiscal Year

(FY) 2001 Annual Materials Plan (AMP)

and the proposed FY 2002 AMP.

DATES: Comments must be received by

March 22, 2001.

ADDRESSES: Written comments should

be sent to Richard V. Meyers, Co-Chair,

Stockpile Market Impact Committee,

Office of Strategic Industries and

Economic Security, Room 3876, Bureau

of Export Administration, U.S.

Department of Commerce, 14th Street

and Constitution Avenue, NW.,

Washington, DC 20230; FAX: (202) 482–

5650; E-Mail: rmeyers@bxa.doc.gov.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Richard V. Meyers, Office of Strategic

Industries and Economic Security,

Bureau of Export Administration, U.S.

Department of Commerce, (202) 482–

3634; or Terri L. Robl, Office of

International Energy and Commodity

Policy, U.S. Department of State, (202)

647–3423; co-chairs of the National

Defense Stockpile Market Impact

Committee.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Under the

authority of the Strategic and Critical

Materials Stock Piling Act of 1979, as

amended, (50 U.S.C. 98 et seq.), the

Department of Defense (DOD), as

National Defense Stockpile Manager,

maintains a stockpile of strategic and

critical materials to supply the military,

industrial, and essential civilian needs

of the United States for national

defense. Section 3314 of the Fiscal Year

(FY) 1993 National Defense

Authorization Act (NDAA) (50 U.S.C.

98h–1) formally established a Market

Impact Committee (the Committee) to

‘‘advise the National Defense Stockpile

Manager on the projected domestic and

foreign economic effects of all

acquisitions and disposals of materials

from the stockpile * * *.’’ The

Committee must also balance market

impact concerns with the statutory

requirement to protect the Government

against avoidable loss.

The Committee is comprised of

representatives from the Departments of

Commerce, State, Agriculture, Defense,

Energy, Interior, Treasury, and the

Federal Emergency Management

Agency, and is co-chaired by the

Departments of Commerce and State.

The FY 1993 NDAA also directs the

Committee to ‘‘consult from time to time

with representatives of producers,

processors and consumers of the types

of materials stored in the stockpile.’’

The National Defense Stockpile

Administrator has proposed revising

both the current FY 2001 Annual

Materials Plan (AMP) and the proposed

FY 2002 AMP (both AMPs previously

approved by Committee) to increase the

disposal quantity of palladium from

300,000 tr. oz. to 600,000 tr. oz. The

proposed increase will permit

additional quantities of palladium to be

sold at historically high prices for the

material and will also provide a supply

of the material into a world market

currently experiencing a severe

shortage. The Committee is seeking

public comment on the potential market

impact of this proposed increase.

The quantity of palladium (including

the proposed increase) listed in both the

FY 2001 and proposed FY 2002 AMPs

are not sales target disposal quantities.

They are only a statement of the

proposed maximum disposal quantity of

the material that may be sold in a

particular fiscal year. The quantity of