[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 5 (Friday, January 8, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Pages 1179-1180]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-335]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE


Bureau of Export Administration Information Systems Technical 
Advisory Committee; Notice of Partially Closed Meeting

    The Information Systems Technical Advisory Committee (ISTAC) will 
meet on January 26 & 27, 1999, 9:00 a.m., at the SPAWAR Systems Center, 
Catalina Boulevard (Point Loma area), San Diego, California. Committee 
members and visitors are asked to check in at Visitor Reception before 
the meeting. The public session will be held on January 26 in the 
Training Center Conference Room. The closed session will be held in the 
Cloud Room, Building 33. The Committee advises the Office of the 
Assistant Secretary for Export Administration on technical questions 
that affect the level of export controls applicable to information 
systems equipment and technology.

January 26

Public Session 9:00 am-12:00 pm

    1. Opening remarks by the Chairman.
    2. Discussion on alternatives to High Performance Computers.
    3. Update on export regulations, including those regarding License 
Exception CIV and encryption products.
    4. Update on the Bureau of Export Administration Website.
    5. Comments on presentations by the public.

January 26 & 27

Closed Session

    6. Discussion of matters properly classified under Executive Order 
12958, dealing with U.S. export control programs and strategic criteria 
related thereto.
    A limited number of seats will be available for the public session. 
Reservations are not required. To the extent time permits, members of 
the public may present oral statements to the Committee. The public may 
submit

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written statements at any time before or after the meeting. However, to 
facilitate distribution of public presentation materials to Committee 
members, the Committee suggests that public presentation materials or 
comments be forwarded before the meeting to the address listed below: 
Ms. Lee Ann Carpenter, Advisory Committees MS: 3886C, U.S. Department 
of Commerce, 15th St. & Pennsylvania Ave., NW, Washington, DC 20230.
    The Assistant Secretary for Administration, with the concurrence of 
the delegate of the General Counsel, formally determined on October 3, 
1997, pursuant to section 10(d) of the Federal Advisory Committee Act, 
as amended, that the series of meetings or portions of meetings of 
these Committees and of any Subcommittees 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 these Committees 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 further 
information or copies of the minutes call Lee Ann Carpenter, 202-482-
2583.

    Dated: December 30, 1998.
Lee Ann Carpenter,
Committee Liaison Officer.
[FR Doc. 99-335 Filed 1-7-99; 8:45 am]
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