[Federal Register Volume 67, Number 23 (Monday, February 4, 2002)]
[Notices]
[Pages 5088-5089]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 02-2569]


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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 22, 2002.
    Time: 9:00 a.m. to 12:15 p.m.
    Place: U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution 
Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20230, Room 3704.
SUMMARY: The Environmental Technologies Trade Advisory Committee will 
hold a plenary meeting on February 22, 2002, at the U.S. Department of 
Commerce.
    ETTAC will hear briefings on the World Summit for Sustainable 
Development; the Trade Compliance Center's outreach program; the Agency 
for International Development's Global Development Alliance; and a 
status report on the U.S.-Asia Environmental Partnership. ETTAC will 
also be briefed on current World Trade Organization issues including an 
update on responses to the Office of Environmental Technologies 
Industries' (ETI) Survey of Non-Tariff Barriers to trade in 
environmental technologies. The meeting is open to the public.
    ETTAC is mandated by Public Law 103-392. It was created to advise 
the U.S. government on environmental trade policies and programs, 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.
    For further information phone Jane Siegel, ETI, International Trade

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Administration, 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 29, 2002.
Carlos F. Montoulieu,
Director, Office of Environmental Technologies Industries.
[FR Doc. 02-2569 Filed 2-1-02; 8:45 am]
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