[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 230 (Wednesday, November 30, 2011)]
[Notices]
[Pages 74040-74041]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-30439]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Bureau of Industry and Security
Emerging Technology and Research Advisory Committee (ETRAC):
Notice of Recruitment of Private-Sector Members
The Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) is announcing a
recruitment for new candidates to serve on the Emerging Technology and
Research Advisory Committee (ETRAC) to advise the Department and other
agency officials on: (i) The identification of emerging technologies
and research and development activities that may be of interest from a
dual-use perspective; (ii) the prioritization of new and existing
controls to determine which are of greatest impact; (iii) the potential
impact of dual-use export control requirements on research activities;
and (iv) the threat to national security posed by unauthorized export
technologies.
BIS will consider resumes from accomplished individuals with
scientific and technical training actively engaged in research and
technology development in industrial and university settings across all
fields. Submissions are especially sought from persons with significant
involvement in leading edge research and/or development-manufacturing
activity in biological sciences (particularly bio electronics and
synthetic biology), chemical engineering, directed energy, materials,
space technologies (including satellite systems). The purpose of this
recruitment is to fill current and future vacancies on the committee.
DATES: To respond to the recruitment notice, please send a copy of your
resume to the individual identified under the ADDRESSES heading. This
Notice of Recruitment expires on January 15, 2012.
ADDRESSES: Interested parties may submit their resume to Ms. Yvette
Springer at [email protected] mail their resume to U.S.
Department of Commerce, Bureau of Industry and Security, 14th Street
and Constitution Ave., NW., Rm. 1093, Washington DC 20230.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mark Crawford, Office of Technology
Evaluation (OTE), Bureau of Industry and Security, telephone (202) 482-
4933, or email: [email protected]; or
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Emerging Technology and Research
Advisory Committee (ETRAC) serves as a technical advisory committee to
the Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) since September 2008. It
operates under the terms of section 5(h) of the Export Administration
Act of 1979, as amended (EAA), 50 U.S.C. 1701-1707 (2007), and the
Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA) (5 U.S.C. app. 2 (2005. ETRAC is
an important vehicle for gathering necessary data as part of the
Department's efforts to ensure that export controls continue to apply
to sensitive items and keep pace with technological and research
innovation without stifling U.S. competitiveness.
BIS's decision to establish the ETRAC drew on three sources: Public
comments submitted to BIS in 2007 regarding the Commerce Control List
(CCL); the report issued by the Deemed Export Advisory Committee
(DEAC), a Federal advisory committee charged with making
recommendations to the Secretary regarding BIS's deemed export policy;
and a Presidential directive calling for BIS to regularly reassess and
update the CCL.
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First, in response to a notice of inquiry, ``Request for Public
Comments on a Systematic Review of the Commerce Control List,''
published in the Federal Register on July 17, 2007, BIS received public
comments stating that the CCL was not keeping pace with technology and
suggesting that university experts play a greater role in updating the
list.
Second, on December 20, 2007, the DEAC submitted its final report,
The Deemed Export Rule in the Era of Globalization, to the Secretary of
Commerce. The DEAC recommended that BIS create a panel of outside
experts in the field of science and engineering to conduct a ``zero-
based'' annual review of the list of technologies on the CCL subject to
deemed export licensing policy. The DEAC also suggested that the
Department increase the focus on and ``build higher fences around those
elements of technical knowledge that could have the greatest
consequences in the national/homeland security sphere by systematically
reviewing the Commerce Control List, with advice from independent
experts, to eliminate those items and technologies that have little or
no such consequences.''
The DEAC's recommendations contained in the report constitute a
written request from representatives of a substantial segment of an
industry that produces goods or technology subject to export controls,
a requirement under section 5(h) of the EAA for the establishment of a
technical advisory committee. Specifically, the DEAC's members were
senior officials with significant experience in business, educational
research, and national homeland security matters related to scientific
and engineering knowledge. As such, there represented a substantial
segment of an affected industry that produces items subject to export
controls, namely, the U.S. technology community, which is engaged in
producing technical data and providing technical assistance.
Finally, the President issued a Dual-Use Trade Reform directive on
January 22, 2008, that called for export controls to be constantly
reassessed to ensure that they control the export and reexport of
sensitive items while minimizing their impact on U.S. economic
competitiveness and innovation. In order to meet this objective, the
President directed the Secretary of Commerce to develop a regularized
process that would consider input by technical advisory committees in
the review and updating of the CCL.
The ETRAC is charged with identifying emerging technologies and
research and development activities that may be of interest from a
dual-use perspective, prioritizing new and existing controls related to
deemed exports to determine which are of greatest consequence to
national security, and examining how research is performed to
understand the impact that the Export Administration Regulations have
on academia, federal laboratories, and industry.
Emerging Technology and Research Advisory Committee (ETRAC): Notice
of Recruitment of Members. The membership is drawn from both private
and public sectors, based on the description below as well as the
charter.
BIS is recruiting members for the ETRAC. The ETRAC consists of a
maximum of 28 members and will feature a balanced membership that will
include diverse points of view. It will consist of experts drawn
equally from academia, federal laboratories, and industry to ensure a
comprehensive discussion of emerging technologies and research and
development activities and their implications with regard to national
and economic security. ETRAC members will be appointed by the Secretary
of Commerce and serve a term of not more than four consecutive years.
Each member must be able to qualify for a Secret clearance prior to
appointment. These clearances are necessary so that members may be
permitted access to sensitive intelligence and law enforcement
information related to the ETRAC's mission. The ETRAC will also reach
out to other government and non-government experts to ensure a broad
and thorough review of the issues.
To respond to the recruitment notice, please send a copy of your
resume to Ms. Yvette Springer at [email protected].
Dated: November 21, 2011.
Yvette Springer,
Committee Liaison Officer.
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