Sensors and Instrumentation Technical Advisory Committee; Notice of Partially Closed Meeting

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Bureau of Export Administration

Sensors and Instrumentation Technical Advisory Committee; Notice

of Partially Closed Meeting

The Department of Commerce will hold a meeting of the Sensors and

Instrumentation Technical Advisory Committee on October 20, 1998, 9:00

a.m., in the Herbert C. Hoover Building, Room 1617M-2, 14th Street

between

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Constitution and Pennsylvania Avenues, NW., Washington, DC. The

Committee advises the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Export

Administration on technical questions that affect the level of export

controls applicable to sensors and instrumentation equipment and

technology.

Agenda

General Session

1. Opening remarks by the current Chairman.

2. Election of Committee Chairman.

3. Presentation of papers or comments by the public.

4. Update on Wassenaar Arrangement List review.

5. Update on India Entities.

Executive Session

6. 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. The public may submit written

statements at any time before or after the meeting. However, to

facilitate 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, CLO MS: 3886C, Bureau of

Export Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, Washington, DC

20230.

The Assistant Secretary for Administration, with the concurrence of

the General Counsel, formally determined on December 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 or copies of the minutes, contact Lee Ann Carpenter on

(202) 482-2583.

Dated: October 1, 1998.

Lee Ann Carpenter,

Director, Technical Advisory Committee Unit.

[FR Doc. 98-26870 Filed 10-6-98; 8:45 am]

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