97-3436. Regulations and Procedures Technical Advisory Committee; Notice of Partially Closed Meeting

[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 29 (Wednesday, February 12, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Pages 6515-6516]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-3436]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

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

    A meeting of the Regulations and Procedures Technical Advisory 
Committee will be held March 6, 1997, 9:00 a.m., in the Herbert C. 
Hoover Building, Room 3884, 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

 Open Session

    1. Opening remarks by the Chairman.
    2. Presentation of papers or comments by the public.
    3. Update on Bureau of Export Administration initiatives.
    4. Report on ``is informed'' implementation.
    5. Discussion on Enhanced Proliferation Control Initiative (EPCI) 
issues: rewrite of the Export Management System guidelines and end-use 
screening.
    6. Responses to Report on Foreign Policy Export Controls.
    7. Discussion on ``deemed export'' case review and policy.
    8. Reports from the working groups.

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, TAC Unit/OAS/EA MS: 3886C, Bureau of Export Administration, 
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 December 2, 
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 pubic meetings found in section 10 (a)(1) and 
(a)(3), of a 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 further 
information, call Lee Ann Carpenter at [phone].


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    Dated: February 6, 1997.
Lee Ann Carpenter,
Director, Technical Advisory Committee Unit.
[FR Doc. 97-3436 Filed 2-11-97; 8:45 am]
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