[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 14 (Monday, January 22, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Page 6585]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-1602]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration


Environmental Technologies Trade Advisory Committee (ETTAC)

AGENCY: International Trade Administration, U.S. Department of 
Commerce.

ACTION: Notice of open meeting.

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    Date: February 8, 2001.
    Time: 9:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
    Place: Room 3407, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th Street and 
Constitution Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20230.
SUMMARY: The Environmental Technologies Trade Advisory Committee will 
hold a plenary meeting on February 8, 2001, in Room 3407 of the U.S. 
Department of Commerce.
    During the morning, the ETTAC will hear reports on cross-cutting 
trade and environment issues including those at issue in the U.S.-
Jordan, and U.S. Singapore free trade agreements negotiations and the 
Free Trade Agreement of the Americas. The ETTAC will also hear a report 
from its Government Resources Subcommittee and review past initiatives. 
In the afternoon, the ETTAC will conduct a strategic planning session.
    The ETTAC is mandated by Public Law 103-392). It was created to 
advise on the environmental trade policies and programs of the U.S. 
Government and to help it to focus its resources on increasing the 
exports of the U.S. environmental industry. The ETTAC operates as an 
advisory committee to the Secretary of Commerce and the interagency 
Environmental Trade Working Group (ETWG) of the Trade Promotion 
Coordinating Committee (TPCC). The ETTAC was originally chartered in 
May of 1994. It was most recently rechartered until May 30, 2002. The 
ETTAC was created on May 31, 1994, to advise the U.S. government on 
policies and programs to expand U.S. exports of environmental products 
and services.
    For further information phone Jane Siegel, Office of Technologies 
Industries, (ETI), U.S. Department of Commerce at (202) 482-5225. This 
meeting is physically accessible to people with disabilities. Requests 
for sign language interpretation or other auxiliary aids should be 
directed to ETI.

    Dated: January 12, 2001.
Carlos F. Montoulieu,
Deputy Assistant Secretary.
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