Materials Processing Equipment Technical Advisory Committee; Notice of Partially Closed Meeting

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Bureau of Export Administration

Materials Processing Equipment Technical Advisory Committee;

Notice of Partially Closed Meeting

The Materials Processing Equipment Technical Advisory Committee

will meet on November 17, 1998, 9:00 a.m., Room 1617M-2, in the Herbert

C. Hoover Building, 14th Street between Pennsylvania and Constitution

Avenues, N.W., Washington, D.C. The Committee advises the Office of the

Assistant Secretary for Export Administration with respect to technical

questions that affect the level of export controls applicable to

materials processing equipment and related technology.

Agenda

General Session

1. Opening remarks by the Chairman

2. Presentation of papers or comments by the public

3. Election of Committee Chairman

4. Update on Wassenaar Arrangement negotiations

5. Discussion on proposal for making Control List Category 2 more

``user friendly''

Closed 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, the Committee

suggests that presenters forward the materials prior to the meeting

date to the following address: Ms. Lee Ann Carpenter, Advisory

Committees MS:3886C, Bureau of Export Administration, 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 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 (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. 20230. For more

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

Dated: October 20, 1998.

Lee Ann Carpenter,

Committee Liaison Officer.

[FR Doc. 98-28628 Filed 10-23-98; 8:45 am]

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