[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 241 (Friday, December 13, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Pages 65521-65522]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-31601]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Bureau of Export Administration


Materials Technical Advisory Committee; Notice of Partially 
Closed Meeting

    A meeting of the Materials Technical Advisory Committee will be 
held

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January 9, 1997, 10:30 a.m., Herbert C. Hoover Building, Room 1617M-2, 
14th Street between Constitution & Pennsylvania Avenues, N.W., 
Washington, D.C. The Committee advises the Office of the Assistant 
Secretary for Export Administration with respect to technical questions 
that affect the level of export controls applicable to materials and 
related technology.

Agenda:

General Session

    1. Opening remarks by the Chairman.
    2. Presentation of papers or comments by the public.
    3. Discussion on Office of Exporter Services outreach program.
    4. Review of Nuclear Proliferation Export Control of materials 
usable for production of isotope separation centrifuges.
    5. Remarks and discussion on Biological Weapons Convention 
inspection proposals.
    6. Briefing on October 7-8 workshop on ``Sampling and Analysis 
for Compliance Monitoring of the Biological Weapons Convention.''
    7. Discussion on definitions of terms used in the Biological 
Weapons Convention Ad Hoc Group.
    8. Election of new Chairperson.
    9. Remarks on Bureau of Export Administration initiatives.

Executive Session

    10. Discussion of matters properly classified under Executive 
Order 12958, dealing with U.S. export control programs and strategic 
criteria related thereto.
    The General Session of the meeting will be open to the public 
and a limited number of seats will be available. To the extent time 
permits, members of the public may present oral statements to the 
Committee. Written statements may be submitted at any time before or 
after the meeting. However, to facilitate distribution of public 
presentation materials to the Committee members, the materials 
should be forwarded two weeks prior to the meeting to the address 
below: Ms. Lee Ann Carpenter, TAC Unit/OAS/EA Room 3886C, Bureau of 
Export Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, Washington, D.C. 
20230.
    The Assistant Secretary for Administration, with the concurrence 
of the delegate of the General Counsel, formally determined on March 
13, 1996, 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 Subcommittee thereof, 
dealing with the classified materials listed in 5 U.S.C. 552(c)(1) 
shall be exempt from the provisions relating to public meetings 
found in section 10(a)(1) and (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, D.C. For further information or copies of the minutes 
call (202) 482-2583.

    Dated: December 9, 1996.
Lee Ann Carpenter,
Director, Technical Advisory Committee Unit.
[FR Doc. 96-31601 Filed 12-12-96; 8:45 am]
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