[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 240 (Wednesday, December 14, 2011)]
[Notices]
[Page 77776]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-32101]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration


Environmental Technologies Trade Advisory Committee Public 
Meeting

AGENCY: International Trade Administration, DOC.

ACTION: Notice of Federal advisory committee meeting.

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SUMMARY: This notice sets forth the schedule and proposed agenda of a 
meeting of the Environmental Technologies Trade Advisory Committee 
(ETTAC).

DATES: The meeting is scheduled for Thursday, January 26, 2012, at 9 
a.m. Eastern Daylight Time (EDT).

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held in Room 3407 at the U.S. Department 
of Commerce, Herbert Clark Hoover Building, 1401 Constitution Avenue 
NW., Washington, DC 20230.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. Todd DeLelle, Office of Energy & 
Environmental Industries (OEEI), International Trade Administration, 
Room 4053, 1401 Constitution Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20230. (Phone: 
(202) 482-4877; Fax: (202) 482-5665; email: [email protected]). 
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 no less than one week 
prior to the meeting.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The meeting will take place from 9 a.m. to 
3:30 p.m. This meeting is open to the public and time will be permitted 
for public comment from 3:00-3:30 p.m. Written comments concerning 
ETTAC affairs are welcome any time before or after the meeting. Minutes 
will be available within 30 days of this meeting.
    Topics to be considered: The agenda for the January 26, 2012 ETTAC 
meeting will be set by the recent activities of the group's four 
subcommittees: Trade Promotion Subcommittee; Trade Liberalization 
Subcommittee; Standards, Regulations, and Certification Subcommittee; 
and Innovation Subcommittee. Each group will provide an overview of the 
issues on which they have been gathering information since the previous 
quarterly ETTAC meeting. The full ETTAC will discuss those issues 
further and begin to develop related policy recommendations.
    Background: 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 re-chartered until October 2012.

Edward A. O'Malley,
Director, Office of Energy and Environmental Industries.
[FR Doc. 2011-32101 Filed 12-13-11; 8:45 am]
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