Information Systems Technical Advisory Committee; Notice of Partially Closed Meeting

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Bureau of Export Administration

Information Systems Technical Advisory Committee; Notice of

Partially Closed Meeting

A meeting of the Information Systems Technical Advisory Committee

will be held April 15 & 16, Room 1617M-2, in the Herbert C. Hoover

Building, 14th Street between Constitution and Pennsylvania Avenues,

N.W., Washington, D.C. This 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

information systems equipment and technology.

April 15

Closed Session 9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.

1. Discussion of matters properly classified under Executive Order

12958, dealing with U.S. export control programs and strategic criteria

related thereto.

April 16

General Session 9:00 a.m.-12:00p.m.

2. Opening remarks by the Chairman.

3. Update on implementation of the Wassenaar Arrangement.

4. Presentation on Hewlett-Packard Company key-recovery products

for the International Cryptographic Framework.

5. Comments or presentations by the public.

Closed Session 1:00 p.m.-4:00 p.m.

6. 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 is open to the public and a

limited number

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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 Committee suggests that public presentation

materials or comments be forwarded at least one week before the meeting

to the address listed below: Ms. Lee Ann Carpenter, 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 October 10,

1995, pursuant to section 10(d) of the Federal Advisory Committee Act,

as amended, that the series of meetings of portions of meetings of

these Committees and of any Subcommittees 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 these Committees is available of 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 Lee Ann Carpenter, 202-482-

2583.

Dated: March 19, 1997.

Lee Ann Carpenter,

Director, Technical Advisory Committee Unit.

[FR Doc. 97-7369 Filed 3-24-97; 8:45 am]

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