Regulations and Procedures Technical Advisory Committee; Notice of Partially Closed Meeting

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Bureau of Export Administration

Regulations and Procedures Technical Advisory Committee; Notice

of Partially Closed Meeting

The Regulations and Procedures Technical Advisory Committee (RPTAC)

will meet December 2, 1999, 9 a.m., Room 3884, in the Herbert C. Hoover

Building, 14th Street between Constitution and Pennsylvania Avenues,

NW., Washington, DC. The Committee advises the Office of the Assistant

Secretary for Export Administration on implementation of the Export

Administration Regulations (EAR) and provides for continuing review to

update the EAR as needed.

Agenda

Open Session

1. Opening remarks by the Chairperson.

2. Presentation of papers or comments by the public.

3. Update on pending regulatory revisions.

4. Update on policies under review.

5. Discussion of electronic submission of license applications and

supporting documentation.

6. Discussion of draft regulation concerning Exporter of Record.

7. Discussion of encryption regulations.

Closed Session

8. Discussion of matters properly classified under Executive Order

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

criteria related thereto.

A limited number of seats will be available for the open session.

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 the distribution of public presentation

materials to the Committee members, the Committee suggests that

presenters forward the public presentation materials prior to the

meeting to the following address: As. Lee Ann Carpenter, BXA MS:3876,

15th St. & Pennsylvania Ave., NW, Washington, DC 20230.

The Assistant Secretary for Administration, with the concurrence of

the delegate of the General Counsel, formally determined on January 12,

1999, pursuant to Section 10(d) of the Federal Advisory Committee Act,

as amended, that the series of meetings or portions of meetings of the

Committee and of any Subcommittees thereof, dealing with the classified

materials listed in 5 U.S.C. 552b(c) shall be exempt from the

provisions relating to public meetings found in section 10(a)(1) and

10(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, DC. For more

information, call Lee Ann Carpenter at (202) 482-2583.

Dated: November 12, 1999.

Lee Ann Carpenter,

Committee Liaison Officer.

[FR Doc. 99-30054 Filed 11-16-99; 8:45 am]

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