[Federal Register Volume 70, Number 43 (Monday, March 7, 2005)]
[Notices]
[Pages 11017-11018]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 05-4381]


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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY

Office of the Secretary


Homeland Security Advisory Council

AGENCY: Office of the Secretary, DHS.

ACTION: Notice of Federal Advisory Committee meeting.

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SUMMARY: The Homeland Security Advisory Council (HSAC) will hold a 
meeting for the purposes of receiving reports and briefings, and 
holding member deliberations. The HSAC will receive reports from: the 
HSAC Task Force on Intelligence and Information Sharing and State 
Fusion Centers, Chaired by Governor Mitt Romney, Governor of 
Massachusetts; the HSAC Task Force on Private Sector Information 
Sharing, Chaired by Mayor Patrick McCrory, Mayor of Charlotte, North 
Carolina; the HSAC Task Force on Critical Infrastructure Protection and 
Resilience, Chaired by Dr. Ruth David, CEO of Analytic Services, Inc.; 
and the HSAC Task Force on the Prevention of Weapons of Mass Effect 
Attacks on American Soil, Chaired by Dr. Lydia Thomas, CEO of Mitretek 
Systems. Additionally, the HSAC will receive detailed briefings 
covering specific critical infrastructure vulnerabilities, 
interdependencies, infrastructure resilience, and vulnerability 
mitigation. The HSAC will also hold roundtable deliberations and 
discussions among HSAC members.

DATES: This meeting will be held in Charlotte, North Carolina on 
Tuesday, March 22, 2005.

ADDRESSES: This meeting will be partially closed; the open portions of 
the meeting for the purpose of receiving the Task Force reports listed 
above will be held at the Westin Charlotte, 601 South College Street, 
Charlotte, NC 28202 in

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Grand Ballroom ``D'' from 9:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. The closed portions 
of the meeting, for the purposes of addressing administrative matters 
and receiving the detailed critical infrastructure briefings listed 
above will be held in a separate venue closed to the public at the 
Westin Charlotte, 601 South College Street, Charlotte, NC 28202 from 
11:45 a.m. to approximately 3 p.m.
    You may submit comments, identified by docket number, by one of the 
following methods:
     EPA Federal Partner EDOCKET Web Site: http://www.epa.gov/feddocket. Follow instructions for submitting comments on the Web site. 
The Department of Homeland Security has joined the Environmental 
Protection Agency (EPA) online public docket and comment system on its 
Partner Electronic Docket System (Partner EDOCKET). The Department of 
Homeland Security and its agencies (excluding the United States Coast 
Guard and Transportation Security Administration) will use the EPA 
Federal Partner EDOCKET system. The USCG and TSA (legacy Department of 
Transportation (DOT) agencies) will continue to use the DOT Docket 
Management System until full migration to the electronic rulemaking 
Federal docket management system in 2005.
     Federal eRulemaking Portal: http://www.regulations.gov. 
Follow the instructions for submitting comments.
     E-mail: [email protected]. Include docket number in the subject 
line of the message.
     Fax: (202) 772-9718.
     Mail: Mike Miron, Homeland Security Advisory Council, 
Department of Homeland Security, Washington, DC 20528.
    Instructions: All submissions received must include the agency name 
and docket number for this notice. All comments received will be posted 
without change to http://www.epa.gov/feddocket, including any personal 
information provided.
    Docket: For access to the docket to read background documents or 
comments received, go to http://www.epa.gov/feddocket. You may also 
access the Federal eRulemaking Portal at http://www.regulations.gov.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For additional information concerning 
the meeting, please contact Mike Miron or an Executive Staff Member of 
the HSAC via e-mail at [email protected], or via phone at 202-692-4283.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 
    Public Attendance: A limited number of members of the public may 
register to attend the public session on a first-come, first-served 
basis per the procedures that follow. Security requires that any member 
of the public who wishes to attend the public session provide his or 
her name and date of birth no later than 5 p.m., e.s.t., Tuesday, March 
15, 2005, to Mike Miron or an Executive Staff Member of the HSAC via e-
mail at [email protected], or via phone at (202) 692-4283. Persons with 
disabilities who require special assistance should indicate so in their 
admittance request and are encouraged to indicate their desires to 
attend and anticipated special needs as early as possible. Photo 
identification will be required for entry into the public session, and 
everyone in attendance must be present and seated by 9:15 a.m.
    Basis for Closure: In accordance with section 10(d) of the Federal 
Advisory Committee Act, Public Law 92-463, as amended (5 U.S.C. app. 1 
et seq.), the Secretary has issued a determination that portions of 
this HSAC meeting (referenced above as ``closed'') will concern matters 
excluded from Open Meetings requirements.
    In particular, the administrative portion of the meeting will be 
conducted ``solely to discuss administrative matters of the advisory 
committee.'' Accordingly, it will be closed pursuant to 41 CFR 102-
3.160(b).
    At portions of the meeting where the committee will be addressing 
specific critical infrastructure vulnerabilities; interdependencies; 
infrastructure resilience; vulnerability mitigation; and investigative 
strategies designed to identify and expose money laundering schemes to 
prosecution. Discussions will include trade secrets and commercial or 
financial information that is privileged or confidential, and matters 
which, if disclosed, would be likely to frustrate significantly the 
implementation of a proposed agency action which has not been disclosed 
to the public nor is required by law to be disclosed to the public. 
Accordingly, the Secretary has determined that these portions of the 
meeting must be kept closed as well, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. app. 10(d), 5 
U.S.C. 552b(c)(4), and 5 U.S.C. 552b(c)(9)(B).

    Dated: March 2, 2005.
Michael Chertoff,
Secretary of The Department of Homeland Security.
[FR Doc. 05-4381 Filed 3-4-05; 8:45 am]
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