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 (RPTAC) will be held May 27, 1998, 9:00 a.m., in the Herbert

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

Pennsylvania Avenues, NW, Washington, DC. 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. Discussion of the National Defense Authorization Act computer

control regulation.

4. Discussion of the Wassenaar Arrangement implementation

regulation.

5. Discussion on the encryption regulation.

6. Update on the license process review initiative.

7. Discussion on the ``deemed export'' rule.

8. Update on Foreign Trade Statistics Regulations and Export

Administration Regulations conforming regulations for export clearance

requirements.

9. Reports from RPTAC working groups.

Closed Session

10. Discussion of matter 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, 15th St. & Pennsylvania Ave., 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 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, D.C. For further

information, call Lee Ann Carpenter at (202) 482-2582.

Dated: May 1, 1998.

Lee Ann Carpenter,

Director, Technical Advisory Committee Unit.

[FR Doc. 98-12122 Filed 5-6-98; 8:45 am]

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