[Federal Register Volume 70, Number 158 (Wednesday, August 17, 2005)]
[Notices]
[Pages 48372-48373]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E5-4487]


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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: September 16, 2005.
    Time: 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.
    Place: Department of Commerce, 14th and Constitution NW., 
Washington DC 20230, Room 4830.
    Summary: The Environmental Technologies Trade Advisory Committee 
(ETTAC) will hold a plenary meeting on September 16, 2005, at the U.S. 
Department of Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution Avenue, NW., 
Washington, DC 20230, in Room 4830. The ETTAC will discuss global 
climate change mitigation initiatives, the European Union's electronic 
and other waste initiatives, updated negotiations

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in the World Trade Organization's environmental goods and services 
trade liberalization, and the Export-Import Bank's environmental 
exports program. The afternoon session will include a discussion of the 
U.S. EPA's Resource Conservation Challenge, the Environmental 
Technologies Verification (ETV) Program and an overview of the U.S. 
International Trade Commission's environmental services sector market 
analysis. The meeting is open to the public and time will be permitted 
for public comment.
    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 Trade Promotion 
Coordinating Committee (TPCC). ETTAC was originally chartered in May of 
1994. It was most recently rechartered until May 30, 2006.
    For further information phone Joseph Ayoub, Office of Energy and 
Environmental Technologies Industries (OEEI), 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 OEEI at (202) 482-5225.

    Dated: August 10, 2005.
Carlos F. Montoulieu,
Director, Office of Energy and Environmental Industries.
[FR Doc. E5-4487 Filed 8-16-05; 8:45 am]
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