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 December 14, 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 9:30 a.m. The Subcommittee provides advice on matters

pertinent to policies regarding commercial encryption products.

Open Session: 9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.

1. Opening remarks by the Chairman.

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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: 1:30 p.m.-5 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. Reservations are not required. To the extent time

permits, members 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 PECSENC 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 October 25, 1999, 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) 482-2593.

Dated: November 23, 1999.

Iain S. Baird,

Deputy Assistant Secretary for Export Administration.

[FR Doc. 99-31039 Filed 11-26-99; 8:45 am]

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