Environmental Technologies Trade Advisory Committee (ETTAC)

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Environmental Technologies Trade Advisory Committee (ETTAC)

AGENCY: International Trade Administration, U. S. Department of

Commerce.

ACTION: Notice of open meeting.

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SUMMARY: The Environmental Technologies Trade Advisory Committee will

hold its fifth plenary meeting. The ETTAC was created on May 31, 1994,

to promote a close working-relationship between government and industry

and to expand export growth in priority and emerging markets for

environmental products and services.

DATES AND PLACE: December 6, 1995, from 9:00 a.m to 5:30 p.m. and

December 7, 1995, from 8:45 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. The meeting will take

place in Room 6808 of the Department of Commerce, 14th Street and

Constitution Ave., NW., Washington DC 20230.

The Committee will request the participation of several major

environmental trade associations on questions of export enhancement for

this industry. At the request of the ETTAC, representatives from the

Department of Defense, the Export-Import Bank of the United States, the

Department of Energy and the U.S.-Asia Environmental Partnership have

been invited to discuss their roles and programs that support

international environmental technologies trade. The Committee will also

hear progress reports from each of its Subcommittees: Communications;

Interagency Coordination; Finance; and Privatization; and be briefed by

its Coordinators on cross-cutting issues: small business; services

exports; and products exports.

This program is physically accessible to people with disabilities.

Requests for sign language interpretation or other auxiliary aids

should be directed to Jane Siegel, Department of Commerce, Room 1002,

Washington DC 20230. Seating is limited and will be on a first-come,

first-served basis.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: The Office of Environmental

Technologies Exports, Room 1003, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th

Street and Constitution Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20230, phone (202)

482-5225, facsimile (202) 482-5665, TDD 1-800-833-8723.

Dated: November 20, 1995.

Anne Alonzo,

Deputy Assistant Secretary for Environmental Technologies Exports.

[FR Doc. 95-28904 Filed 11-24-95; 8:45 am]

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