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 July 24, 1997, 10:30 a.m., Herbert C. Hoover Building, Room 1617M-

2, 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: General Session

1. Opening remarks by the Chairman.

2. Presentation of papers and comments by the public.

3. Review of Committee letters to the Department regarding a

proposal for decontrol of aluminum alloys and titanium alloys and

regarding implementation of the provisions of the Biological Weapons

Convention protocol.

Executive Session

4. 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 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 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: June 25, 1997.

Lee Ann Carpenter,

Director, Technical Advisory Committee Unit.

[FR Doc. 97-17095 Filed 6-30-97; 8:45 am]

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