[Federal Register Volume 70, Number 2 (Tuesday, January 4, 2005)]
[Notices]
[Page 370]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 05-54]


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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY

National Communications System


National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee

AGENCY: National Communications System (NCS).

ACTION: Notice of closed meeting.

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SUMMARY: The President's National Security Telecommunications Advisory 
Committee (NSTAC) will meet via conference call on Wednesday, January 
19, 2005, from 4 p.m. until 5 p.m. The conference call will be closed 
to the public. The NSTAC advises the President of the United States on 
issues and problems related to implementing national security and 
emergency preparedness (NS/EP) communications policy.

Summary of Agenda

    At this meeting, the NSTAC will receive briefings concerning the 
Department's national planning activities for critical infrastructure 
protection; the interim findings of the NSTAC's Next Generation Network 
Task Force (NGNTF), and private sector vulnerability mitigation 
activities that are expected to include discussion of sensitive, 
commercially confidential and proprietary vulnerability and 
infrastructure protection information.
    Basis for Closure: In accordance with Section 10(d) of the Federal 
Advisory Committee Act, Pub. L. 92-463, as amended (5 U.S.C. App. 2), 
the Department has determined that the aforementioned briefings and the 
associated discussion will concern matters sensitive to homeland 
security within the meaning of 5 U.S.C. 552b(c)(4) and (c)(9)(B) and 
that, accordingly, this meeting will be closed to the public.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Call Ms. Kiesha Gebreyes, Chief, 
Industry Operations Branch at (703) 607-6134, or write the Manager, 
National Communications System, P.O. Box 4502, Arlington, Virginia 
22204-4502.

Peter M. Fonash,
Acting Deputy Manager, National Communications System.
[FR Doc. 05-54 Filed 1-3-05; 8:45 am]
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