[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 219 (Friday, November 13, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Page 63458]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-30436]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY


International Energy Agency Meeting

AGENCY: Department of Energy.

ACTION: Notice of meeting.

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SUMMARY: The Industry Advisory Board to the International Energy Agency 
will meet November 20, 1998 at the headquarters of the International 
Energy Agency in Paris, France in connection with a joint meeting of 
the IEA's Standing Group on Emergency Questions and Standing Group on 
the Oil Market.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Samuel M. Bradley, Acting Assistant 
General Counsel for International and Legal Policy, Department of 
Energy, 1000 Independence Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20585, 202-
586-6738.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In accordance with section 252(c)(1)(A)(i) 
of the Energy Policy and Conservation Act (42 U.S.C. 6272(c)(1)(A)(i)), 
the following meeting notice is provided:
    A meeting of the Industry Advisory Board (IAB) to the International 
Energy Agency (IEA) will be held on November 20, 1998, at the 
headquarters of the IEA, 9 rue de la Federation, Paris, France, 
beginning at approximately 9:30 a.m. The purpose of this meeting is to 
permit attendance by representatives of U.S. company members of the IAB 
at a meeting of the IEA's Standing Group on Emergency Questions (SEQ) 
(part of which will be held jointly with the Standing Group on the Oil 
Market (SOM)) that is scheduled to be held at the IEA's offices on 
November 20. The Agenda for the meeting is under the control of the SEQ 
and SOM. It is expected that the following Agenda will be adopted:

Meeting of the Standing Group on Emergency Questions

1. Adoption of the Agenda
2. Approval of the Summary Record of the 93rd Meeting
3. The 1998 SEQ Work Program
4. The 1999 SEQ Work Program
     Survey of SEQ/SOM Member Budget and Work Program 
Priorities
5. Policy and Legislative Developments in Member Countries
     U.S. Energy Policy and Conservation Act
     Developments in other IEA countries
6. Current IAB Activities
7. Emergency Reserve Situation of IEA Countries
     Emergency Reserve and Net Import Situation of IEA 
Countries on 1 July 1998
8. Emergency Reserve Measurement Issues
     Treatment of Petroleum Coke for IEA Emergency Reserve 
Purposes--Proposal by the Spanish Administration
9. Emergency Response Issues of IEA Candidate Countries
     Emergency Reserve Situation of IEA Candidate Countries
10. Emergency Data System and Related Questions
     Base Period Final Consumption--Q397--Q298
     Monthly Oil Statistics (MOS) June 1998
     MOS July
     MOS August
11. Emergency Response Reviews of IEA Countries
     Emergency Response Review of Australia
     Emergency Response Review of Canada
     Emergency Response Review of New Zealand
     Emergency Response Review of Finland
     Progress Report on the Review Program
     Updated Schedule of Emergency Response Reviews
12. Emergency Reference Guide
     Update of Emergency Contact Points List
13. Other Business
     Discussion of possible event to mark 25 years of SEQ work 
on energy security

Joint Meeting of the Standing Group on Emergency Questions and the 
Standing Group on the Oil Market

1. Current Oil Market Situation
    (Based on the monthly Oil Market Report dated 9 November 1998)
2. Oil Supply in the South Atlantic: A Strategic Outlook to 2005
3. External Economic Influences on the World Oil Market: The 
Implications of Expectations, Inventories and Prices
     Dr. Philip K. Verleger, P.K. Verleger LLC
4. Report on the Emergency Response Exercise 98

    As provided in section 252(c)(1)(A)(ii) of the Energy Policy and 
Conservation Act (42 U.S.C. 6272(c)(1)(A)(ii)), this meeting is open 
only to representatives of members of the IAB and their counsel, 
representatives of members of the SEQ and SOM, representatives of the 
Departments of Energy, Justice, and State, the Federal Trade 
Commission, the General Accounting Office, Committees of the Congress, 
the IEA, and the European Commission, and invitees of the IAB, the SEQ, 
the SOM, or the IEA.

    Issued in Washington, D.C., November 6, 1998.
Mary Anne Sullivan,
General Counsel.
[FR Doc. 98-30436 Filed 11-12-98; 8:45 am]
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