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

The President's Export Council Subcommittee on Encryption (PECSENC)

will meet on November 20, 1998, at the U.S. Department of

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Commerce, Herbert C. Hoover Building, Room 4832, 14th Street between

Pennsylvania and Constitution Avenues, N.W., Washington, D.C. The

meeting will begin in closed session at 9:45 a.m. The open session will

begin at 12:00 p.m. and is scheduled to adjourn at 4:15 p.m. The

Subcommittee provides advice on matters pertinent to policies regarding

commercial encryption products.

Closed Session: 9:45 a.m.-12:00 p.m.

1. Discussion of matters properly classified under Executive Order

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

criteria related thereto.

Open Session: 12:00 p.m.-4:15 p.m.

2. Opening remarks by the Acting Chairman.

3. Presentation of papers or comments by the public.

4. Update on Bureau of Export Administration initiatives.

5. Issue briefings.

6. Briefings by working groups.

7. 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, D.C. For more information, contact Ms. Lee Ann

Carpenter on (202) 482-2583.

Dated: October 30, 1998.

Iain S. Baird,

Deputy Assistant Secretary for Export Administration.

[FR Doc. 98-29555 Filed 11-3-98; 8:45 am]

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