[Federal Register Volume 68, Number 13 (Tuesday, January 21, 2003)]
[Notices]
[Page 2751]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 03-1227]


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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 21, 2003.
    Time: 9 a.m. to 12 p.m and 2:30 p.m to 3:30 p.m.
    Place: U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution 
Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20230, Room 4830 (Room 3407 has also been 
reserved as a backup).

SUMMARY: The Environmental Technologies Trade Advisory Committee 
(ETTAC) will hold a plenary meeting on February 21, 2003 at the U.S. 
Department of Commerce.
    The ETTAC will discuss administrative and trade issues including 
the status of trade negotiations in regards to environmental 
technologies trade liberalization and recent management changes within 
the U.S.-Asia Environmental Partnership Program (USAEP). Time will be 
permitted for public comment. The meeting is open to the public.
    Written comments concerning ETTAC affairs are welcome anytime 
before or after the meeting. Minutes will be available within 30 days 
of this meeting.
    The 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. 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). ETTAC was originally chartered in May of 
1994. It was most recently rechartered until May 30, 2004.
    For further information phone Corey Wright, Office of Environmental 
Technologies Industries (ETI), International Trade 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 13, 2003.
Carlos F. Montoulieu,
Director, Office of Environmental Technologies Industries.
[FR Doc. 03-1227 Filed 1-17-03; 8:45 am]
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