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[FR Doc No: 94-5022]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY

 

Treasury Advisory Committee on Commercial Operations of the U.S. 
Customs Service

AGENCY: Departmental Offices, Treasury.

ACTION: Notice of meeting.

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SUMMARY: This notice announces the dates and locations of the next 
meetings and the agendas for consideration by the Treasury Advisory 
Committee on Commercial Operations of the U.S. Customs Service.

DATES: The next meeting of the Treasury Advisory Committee on 
Commercial Operations of the U.S. Customs Service will be held on April 
7-8 in Chicago, Illinois. The April 7 portion of the meeting will be 
held at approximately 3:30 p.m. in a U.S. Customs Service conference 
room at O'Hare Airport. The April 8 business meeting of the Committee 
will be held at 9 a.m. at Motorola Corporation, Motorola Campus, 1297 
East Algonquin Road, Schaumberg, Illinois.
    The April 7 portion of the meeting, which will consist solely of 
briefings by Customs officials regarding a pending study of Customs 
reorganization, will be closed. The portion of the April 8 meeting that 
will consist of a general discussion by Committee members of proposals 
for Customs reorganization, and their recommendations, will also be 
closed.
    A subcommittee of the Advisory Committee will meet informally with 
representatives of the U.S. Customs Service reorganization team in the 
offices of Michael H. Lane, chairman of the reorganization team, at 
Customs Headquarters on March 21, 1994 to prepare for the discussion of 
reorganization at the Chicago session on April 7 and 8. This informal 
subcommittee meeting will also be closed.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dennis M. O'Connell, Director, Office 
of Tariff and Trade Affairs, Office of the Assistant Secretary 
(Enforcement), room 4004, Department of the Treasury, 1500 Pennsylvania 
Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20220. Tel.: (202) 622-0220.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: I hereby determine pursuant to 5 U.S.C. app. 
2, 10(d) and Treasury Order No. 101-05 that the premature disclosure of 
the pending study and any proposals regarding the Customs Service's 
reorganization, would be likely to significantly frustrate the 
implementation of a proposed plan to reorganize the Customs Service. 
Therefore, it is in the public's interest that specific portions of the 
Committee's next meetings regarding the study and any proposals be 
closed as permitted by 5 U.S.C. 552b(c)(9)(B).
    The Customs Reorganization Team has been soliciting and analyzing 
ideas for reorganizing the Customs Service to improve its efficiency 
and the quality of its service. These ideas are highly inchoate and 
have not received the endorsement of the Commissioner of Customs or the 
Treasury Department. The premature disclosure of this information would 
likely initiate speculation about site closings or site reductions 
resulting in precipitous actions by Customs Service employees and 
contractors as well as local residents and businesses. The premature 
disclosure of a proposal to close a site may cause site employees to 
relocate or resign and local contractors to eliminate services, thus 
frustrating the Customs Service's ability to later keep a site open 
when a reorganization plan is implemented.
    The preliminary agenda to be considered during the meetings on 
April 7 and 8, 1994 is as follows:
    April 7, 1994: 3:30 p.m.: Customs Reorganization Team Findings 
(Closed Session).
    April 8, 1994.
    I. Closed Session (9 a.m.).
    1. Customs Reorganization Team Findings.
    II. Open Session (Approximately 11 a.m.).
    1. North American Free Trade Agreement Implementation.
    2. Customs Modernization Act Implementation.
    2. Briefing and Discussion of U.S. Textile Program after the 
Uruguay Round with Ms. Rita Hayes, Deputy Assistant Secretary for 
Textiles, Apparel and Consumer Goods Industries, U.S. Department of 
Commerce.
    With the exception of the closed portion indicated, the April 8 
meeting is open to the public. However, it is necessary for any person 
other than an Advisory Committee member who wishes to attend the 
meeting to give advance notice. In order to be admitted to the meeting, 
contact Ms. Theresa Manning at (202) 622-0220 no later than April 1, 
1994. Details and confirmation of meeting room and time may be obtained 
from Ms. Manning.

    Dated: March 1, 1994.
John P. Simpson,
Deputy Assistant Secretary (Regulatory, Tariff and Trade Enforcement).
[FR Doc. 94-5022 Filed 3-3-94; 8:45 am]
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