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 will be held on April 23rd 1998, 8:30 a.m.,

in Salon D of the J.W. Marriott Hotel, 1331 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W.,

Washington, D.C. The closed session will be held at the U.S. Department

of Commerce, Herbert C. Hoover Building, Room 3884, 14th Street between

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

4. Task Force reports.

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 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 further information, contact Ms. Lee Ann

Carpenter on (202) 482-2583.

Dated: April 1, 1998.

William V. Skidmore,

Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for Export Administration.

[FR Doc. 98-9041 Filed 4-6-98; 8:45 am]

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