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 August 12, 1998, 9:00 a.m., in the

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

and Pennsylvania Avenue, 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. Update of policies under review.

4. Update on status of pending regulations.

5. Discussion of proposal to amend Foreign Trade Statistics

Regulations and Export Administration Regulations to change definition

of ``Exporter of Record''.

6. Report on Wassenaar Arrangement working group meeting.

7. Reports from RPTAC working groups.

Closed Session

8. 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. Reservations are not

required. 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 MS:3886C, 15th

St. & Pennsylvania Ave., NW., U.S. Department of Commerce, Washington,

DC 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, DC. For further

information, call Lee Ann Carpenter at (202) 482-2583.

Dated: July 23, 1998.

Lee Ann Carpenter,

Director, Technical Advisory Committee Unit.

[FR Doc. 98-20139 Filed 7-27-98; 8:45 am]

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