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 September 29, 1999, at the U.S. Department of Commerce,

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

and Constitution Avenues, NW., Washington, DC. The meeting will begin

in open session at 9:00 a.m. The open session is scheduled to adjourn

at 2:30 p.m. The closed session will begin at 2:45 p.m. The

Subcommittee provides advice on matters pertinent to policies regarding

commercial encryption products.

Open Session: 9:00 a.m.-2:30 p.m.

1. Opening remarks by the Chairman.

2. Presentation of papers or comments by the public.

3. Update on Bureau of Export Administration initiatives.

4. Issue briefings.

5. Open discussion.

Closed Session: 2:45 p.m.-5:00 p.m.

6. Discussion of matters properly classified under Executive Order

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

criteria related thereto.

The meeting is open to the public and a limited number of seats

will be available. Reservation are not required.

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To the extent time permits, member of the public may present oral

statements to the PECSENC. The public may submit written statements at

any time before or after the meeting. However, to facilitate

distribution of public presentation materials to pecsence members, the

PECSENC suggests that public presentation materials or comments be

forwarded before the meeting to the address listed below: Ms. Lee Ann

Carpenter, Advisory Committees MS: 3876, U.S. Department of Commerce,

14th St. & Pennsylvania Ave., NW, Washington, DC 20230.

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, DC. For more information, contact Ms. Lee Ann

Carpenter on (202) 482-2583.

Dated: September 8, 1999.

Iain S. Baird,

Deputy Assistant Secretary for Export Administration.

[FR Doc. 99-23891 Filed 9-13-99; 8:45 am]

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