[Federal Register Volume 67, Number 33 (Tuesday, February 19, 2002)]
[Notices]
[Page 7355]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 02-3996]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Bureau of Export Administration


Regulations and Procedures Technical Advisory Committee; Notice 
of Partially Closed Meeting

    The Regulations and Procedures Technical Advisory Committee (RPTAC) 
will meet March 5, 2002, 9 a.m., Room 3884, in the Herbert C. Hoover 
Building, 14th Street between Constitution and Pennsylvania Avenues, 
NW., Washington, DC. The Committee advises the Office of the Assistance 
Secretary for Export Administration on implementation of the Export 
Administration Regulations (EAR) and provides for continuiing review to 
update the EAR as needed.

Agenda

Public Session

    1. Opening remarks by the Chairman.
    2. Presentation of papers or comments by the public.
    3. Update on pending regulations.
    4. Working group activity reports.
    5. Update on the Wassenaar Arrangement.
    6. Discussion on status of Automated Export System regulations.
    7. Discussion on status of pending encryption regulations.

Closed Session

    8. Discussion of matters properly classified under Executive Order 
12958, dealing with the U.S. export control program and strategic 
criteria related thereto.
    A limited number of seats will be available for the public session. 
Reservations are not accepted. To the extent that time permits, members 
of the public may present oral statements to the Committee. The public 
may submit written statements at any time before or after the meeting. 
However, to facilitate the distribution of public presentation 
materials to the Committee members, the Committee suggests that 
presenters forward the public presentation materials prior to the 
meeting to the following address: Ms. Lee Ann Carpenter, OSIES/EA/EXA, 
MS: 3876, 14th St. & Constitution Ave., NW., U.S. Department of 
Commerce, Washington, DC 20230.
    The Assistant Secretary for Administration, with the concurrence of 
the delegate of the General Counsel, formally determined on February 
12, 2001, pursuant to section 10(d) of the Federal Advisory Committee 
Act, as amended, that the series of meetings or portions of meetings of 
the Committee and of any Subcommittees thereof, dealing with the 
classified materials listed in 5 U.S.C. 552b(c)(1) shall be exempt from 
the provisions relating to public meetings found in section 10(a)(1) 
and 10(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 the 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, call Lee Ann Carpenter at (202) 482-2583.

    Dated: February 14, 2002.
Lee Ann Carpenter,
Committee Liaison Officer.
[FR Doc. 02-3996 Filed 2-15-02; 8:45 am]
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