[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 15 (Tuesday, January 23, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Page 7462]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-2029]


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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 February 7 and 8, 2001, 9:00 a.m., at the SPAWAR Systems Center 
(Topside), Cloud Room, Building 33, 53560 Hull Street, San Diego, 
California, 92152. The ISTAC 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.

February 7

Public Session

    1. Opening remarks and introductions.
    2. Comments or presentations from the public.
    3. Industry perspective on advances in computer technology and 
export controls.
    4. Briefing in revisions to encryption rules.
    5. Tutorial on dense wavelength division multiplexing techniques 
used in optical transmission.

February 8

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 accepted. To the extent time permits, members of 
the public may present oral statements to the ISTAC. The public may 
submit written statements at any time before or after the meeting. 
However, to facilitate distribution of public presentation materials to 
Committee members, the ISTAC suggests that public presentation 
materials or comments be forwarded before the meeting to the address 
listed below: Ms. Lee Ann Carpenter, OSIES/EA/BXA MS: 3876, U.S. 
Department of Commerce, 14th and Constitution Ave., NW., Washington, DC 
20230.
    The Assistant Secretary for Administration, with the concurrence of 
the delegate of the General Counsel, formally determined on September 
10, 1999, pursuant to section 10(d) of the Federal Advisory Committee 
Act, as amended, that the series of meetings or portions of meetings of 
this Committee 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 this Committee 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 more information 
or copies of the minutes call Lee Ann Carpenter, 202-482-2583.

    Dated: January 17, 2001.
Lee Ann Carpenter,
Committee Liaison Officer.
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