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

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Bureau of Export Administration

President's Export Council Subcommittee on Encryption; Partially

Closed Meeting

A partially closed meeting of the President's Export Council

Subcommittee on Encryption will be held February 23, 1998, 2 p.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 Subcommittee provides advice on matters pertinent

to policies regarding commercial encryption products.

Public Session

1. Opening remarks by the Chairman.

2. Presentation of papers or comments by the public.

3. Update on Administration commercial encryption policy.

4. Discussion of task force development and work plan.

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.

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 July 21, 1997, in accordance with the Federal

Advisory Committee Act. A copy of 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: February 3, 1998.

William V. Skidmore,

Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for Export Administration.

[FR Doc. 98-3001 Filed 2-5-98; 8:45 am]

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