President's Export Council; Subcommittee on Encryption, Notice of Partially Closed Meeting

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Bureau of Export Administration

President's Export Council; Subcommittee on Encryption, Notice of

Partially Closed Meeting

A partially closed meeting of the President's Export Council

Subcommittee on Encryption (PECSENC) will be held on September 18,

1998. The initial open session will convene at 9:00 a.m. at the U.S.

Department of Commerce, Herbert C. Hoover Building, Room 4832, 14th

Street between Pennsylvania and Constitution Avenues, NW., Washington,

DC. The initial open session is scheduled to adjourn at 12:00 p.m. The

closed session will convene in Room 4832. The PECSENC will reconvene in

open session at 3:00 p.m. in Room 4832. The Subcommittee provides

advice on matters pertinent to policies regarding commercial encryption

products.

Open Session

1. Opening remarks by the Chairman.

2. Presentation of papers or comments by the public.

3. Update on Bureau of Export Administration initiatives.

4. Issue briefings.

Closed Session

5. Discussion of matters properly classified under Executive Order

12958, dealing with the U.S. export control program and strategic

criteria related thereto.

Open Session

6. Issue briefing.

7. Reports by working groups.

8. Open discussion.

A Notice of Determination to close meetings, or portions of

meetings, of the Subcommittee to the public on the basis of 5 U.S.C.

522(c)(1) was approved May 7, 1998, in accordance with the Federal

Advisory Committee Act. A copy of the Notice of Determination 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, contact Ms. Lee Ann

Carpenter on (202) 482-2583.

Dated: August 26, 1998.

Iain S. Baird,

Deputy Assistant Secretary for Export Administration.

[FR Doc. 98-23578 Filed 9-1-98; 8:45 am]

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