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

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Bureau of Export Administration

Regulations and Procedures Technical Advisory Committee; Notice

of Partially Closed Meeting

A meeting of the Regulations and Procedures Technical Advisory

Committee will be held July 29, 1997, 9:00 a.m., in the Herbert C.

Hoover Building, Room 3884, 14th Street between Constitution and

Pennsylvania Avenues, N.W., Washington, D.C. 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. Election of Committee Officers.

5. Discussion on the Automated Export System and extension of the

Automated Export Reporting Program.

6. Review of the Foreign Trade Statistics Regulations.

7. Discussion on the ``deemed export'' rule and case processing.

8. Discussion on the ``is informed'' process and additions to the

Entities List.

9. Presentation on export control legislation.

10. Update on implementation of The Wassenaar Arrangement.

11. Discussion on information sharing and end-use controls.

12. Presentation on revisions to the Export Administration

Regulations.

Closed Session

13. 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:

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Ms. Lee Ann Carpenter, TAC Unit/OAS/EA MS: 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 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 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, call

Lee Ann Carpenter at (202) 482-2583.

Dated: July 2, 1997.

Lee Ann Carpenter,

Director, Technical Advisory Committee Unit.

[FR Doc. 97-17865 Filed 7-8-97; 8:45 am]

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