[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 227 (Wednesday, November 25, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Pages 65170-65171]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-31558]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Bureau of Export Administration


Materials Technical Advisory Committee; Notice of Partially 
Closed Meeting

    The Materials Technical Advisory Committee will meet December 17, 
1998, 10:30 a.m., Herbert C. Hoover Building, Room 6029, 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.

Agency

General Session

    1. Opening remarks by the Chairman.
    2. Presentation of papers and comments by the public.
    3. Discussion of Biological Weapons Convention protocol.

Executive Session

    4. 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. Reservations are not 
required. 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 
prior to the meeting to the address below:

Ms. Lee Ann Carpenter, BXA MS: 3886C, U.S. Department of Commerce, 15 
St. & Pennsylvania Ave., N.W., Washington, D.C. 20230

The Assistant Secretary for Administration, with the concurrence of the 
delegate of the General Counsel, formally determined on February 24, 
1998, pursuant to section 10(d) of the Federal Advisory Committee Act, 
as

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

    Dated: November 19, 1998.
Lee Ann Carpenter,
Committee Liaison Officer.
[FR Doc. 98-31558 Filed 11-24-98; 8:45 am]
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