Materials Technical Advisory Committee; Notice of Partially Closed Meeting

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Bureau of Export Administration

Materials Technical Advisory Committee; Notice of Partially

Closed Meeting

A meeting of the Materials Technical Advisory Committee will be

held

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January 9, 1997, 10:30 a.m., Herbert C. Hoover Building, Room 1617M-2,

14th Street between Constitution & Pennsylvania Avenues, N.W.,

Washington, D.C. 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:

General Session

1. Opening remarks by the Chairman.

2. Presentation of papers or comments by the public.

3. Discussion on Office of Exporter Services outreach program.

4. Review of Nuclear Proliferation Export Control of materials

usable for production of isotope separation centrifuges.

5. Remarks and discussion on Biological Weapons Convention

inspection proposals.

6. Briefing on October 7-8 workshop on ``Sampling and Analysis

for Compliance Monitoring of the Biological Weapons Convention.''

7. Discussion on definitions of terms used in the Biological

Weapons Convention Ad Hoc Group.

8. Election of new Chairperson.

9. Remarks on Bureau of Export Administration initiatives.

Executive Session

10. Discussion of matters properly classified under Executive

Order 12958, dealing with U.S. export control programs 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 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 the Committee members, the materials

should be forwarded two weeks prior to the meeting to the address

below: Ms. Lee Ann Carpenter, TAC Unit/OAS/EA Room 3886C, Bureau of

Export Administration, 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 March

13, 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 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, D.C. For further information or copies of the minutes

call (202) 482-2583.

Dated: December 9, 1996.

Lee Ann Carpenter,

Director, Technical Advisory Committee Unit.

[FR Doc. 96-31601 Filed 12-12-96; 8:45 am]

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