[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 58 (Friday, March 24, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Page 15898]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-7404]



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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE


Office of the General Counsel; Laws or Regulations Posing 
Barriers to Electronic Commerce

AGENCY: Department of Commerce.

ACTION: Notice, 30-day re-opening of comment period.

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SUMMARY: The Department of Commerce, on behalf of the Subgroup on Legal 
Barriers to Electronic Commerce (``Legal Barriers Subgroup'') of the 
U.S. Government Working Group on Electronic Commerce, re-opens for an 
additional 30 days the response period for our request for public 
comments and suggestions concerning policies, laws or regulations that 
need to be adapted in order to eliminate barriers to and promote 
electronic commerce, electronic services, and electronic transactions. 
The original notice was published on February 1, 2000, with comments to 
be provided by March 17, 2000 (65 FR 4801).

DATES: Comments are requested by April 24, 2000.

ADDRESSES: Comments may be submitted via the Web at http://www.ecommerce.gov/ebarriers/respond. Alternatively, electronic 
submissions may be sent as documents attached to E-mail messages 
addressed to [email protected]. Submissions made as E-mail 
attachments or submitted on floppy disks should be in WordPerfect, 
Microsoft Word or ASCII format. Diskettes should be labeled with the 
name of the party and the name and version of the word processing 
program used to create the document. Paper submissions may be mailed to 
the Subgroup on Legal Barriers to Electronic Commerce, U.S. Department 
of Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution Avenue, NW., Room 2815, 
Washington DC 20230. If possible, paper submissions should include 
floppy disks in WordPerfect, Microsoft Word or ASCII format. Except for 
floppy disks with paper submissions, duplicate copies should not be 
submitted.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Kenneth Clark, phone: 202-482-3843; E-
mail [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

    The Department of Commerce has determined that it is appropriate to 
re-open the record for comments concerning the above-described request 
for public comments for an additional 30-day period in order: (1) To 
officially accommodate the significant number of comments being filed 
somewhat beyond the original comment deadline; and (2) to allow a 
reasonable, but limited, time for interested parties to augment their 
previous comments, or to file original comments, in light of the 
comments of other parties, which have been routinely posted on our Web 
site at http://www.ecommerce.gov/ebarriers/review as soon as 
practicable after their receipt. Comments filed after April 24, 2000, 
will not be considered by the Subgroup. Detailed background information 
concerning the original request for comments is contained in the above-
cited Federal Register notice, a copy of which is also posted at http://www.ecommerce.gov/ebarriers/fedreg1. A copy of this notice can be 
found at http://www.ecommerce.gov/ebarriers/fedreg2.

Publication:

     Comments will be published online at http://www.ecommerce.gov/ebarriers/review. Respondents should not submit materials that they do 
not desire to be made public.

Authority:

     Presidential Memorandum, ``Facilitating the Growth of Electronic 
Commerce,'' dated November 29, 1999.

    Dated: March 21, 2000.
Andrew J. Pincus,
General Counsel, Department of Commerce.
[FR Doc. 00-7404 Filed 3-23-00; 8:45 am]
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