Information Systems Technical Advisory Committee; Notice of Closed Meeting

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Bureau of Export Administration

Information Systems Technical Advisory Committee; Notice of

Closed Meeting

A meeting of the Information System Technical Advisory Committee

(ISTAC) will be held May 21, 1998, 9:00 a.m., in the Herbert C. Hoover

Building, Room 1617M-2, 14th Street between Pennsylvania Avenue and

Constitution Avenue, NW, Washington, DC. The ISTAC 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.

The Committee will meet only in Executive Session to discuss

matters properly classified under Executive order 12958, dealing with

the U.S. export control program and strategic criteria related thereto.

The Assistant Secretary for Administration, with the concurrence of

the General Counsel, formally determined on October 3, 1997, pursuant

to section 10(d) of the Federal Advisory Committee Act, as amended,

that the series 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 10(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, DC 20230. For further

information, contact Lee Ann Carpenter on (202) 482-2583.

Dated: April 30, 1998.

Lee Ann Carpenter,

Director, Technical Advisory Committee Unit.

[FR Doc. 98-12008 Filed 5-5-98; 8:45 am]

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