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 December 9, 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 Chairperson.

2. Presentation of papers or comments by the public.

3. Update on the encryption regulation.

4. Update on the Wassenaar Arrangement implementation regulation.

5. Discussion on the ``deemed export'' issue.

6. Discussion on the Enhanced Proliferation Control Initiative and

continued publication of Entities of Concern.

7. Update on the Automated Export System.

8. Discussion on efforts to conform the Foreign Trade Statistics

Regulations and the Export Administration Regulations on export

clearance requirements.

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, OAS/EA/BXA

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MS: 3886C, 14th & Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W., 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

16, 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: November 3, 1997.

Lee Ann Carpenter,

Director, Technical Advisory Committee Unit.

[FR Doc. 97-29404 Filed 11-6-97; 8:45 am]

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