[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 100 (Tuesday, May 24, 2016)]
[Notices]
[Pages 32728-32729]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2016-12268]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration


Notice of Determination To Partially Close Two Meetings of the 
Civil Nuclear Trade Advisory Committee

AGENCY: ITA, DOC.

ACTION: Notice of determination to partially close two meetings of the 
Civil Nuclear Trade Advisory Committee (CINTAC).

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SUMMARY: This notice of determination announces the partial closure of 
the June 9, 2016 and August 4, 2016 meetings of the CINTAC.

DATES: The meetings are scheduled for Thursday, June 9, 2016, 9:00 a.m. 
to 4:00 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time (EDT) and Thursday August 4, 2016, 
9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. EDT. The public sessions of the meetings are 
from 3:00 p.m. to 4:00p.m.

ADDRESSES: The meetings will be held in Room 1412, U.S. Department of 
Commerce, Herbert Clark Hoover Building, 1401 Constitution Ave. NW., 
Washington, DC 20230.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. Jonathan Chesebro, Office of 
Energy & Environmental Industries, ITA, Room 4053, 1401 Constitution 
Ave. NW., Washington, DC 20230. (Phone: 202-482-1297; Fax: 202-482-
5665; email: [email protected]).

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Notice of Determination

    In response to requests from representatives of a substantial 
segment of the U.S. civil nuclear industry and the U.S. Departments of 
State and Energy, the Secretary of Commerce, under discretionary 
authority, established the Civil Nuclear Trade Advisory Committee (the 
committee) in 2008, pursuant to provisions under the Federal Advisory 
Committee Act (FACA), as amended, 5 U.S.C. App. 2. The committee was 
most recently re-chartered in August 2014 and the current charter is 
set to expire in August 2016. It advises the Secretary of Commerce on 
the development and administration of programs and policies to expand 
United States exports of civil

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nuclear goods and services in accordance with applicable U.S. laws and 
regulations, for use by the Department of Commerce in its role as a 
member of the Civil Nuclear Trade Working Group of the Trade Promotion 
Coordinating Committee and the Department's active participation in the 
Atoms for Prosperity interagency group to promote U.S. civil nuclear 
trade.
    In connection with that function, the committee provides advice on: 
(1) Matters concerning trade policy development and negotiations 
relating to U.S. civil nuclear exports; (2) the effect of U.S. 
Government policies, regulations, and programs, and the policies and 
practices of foreign governments on the export of U.S. civil nuclear 
goods and services; (3) the competitiveness of U.S. industry and its 
ability to compete for civil nuclear products and services 
opportunities in international markets, including specific problems in 
exporting, and U.S. Government and public/private actions to assist 
civil nuclear companies in expanding their exports; (4) the 
identification of priority civil nuclear markets with the potential for 
high immediate returns for U.S. exports, as well as emerging markets 
with a longer-term potential for U.S. exports; (5) strategies to 
increase private sector awareness and effective use of U.S. Government 
export promotion programs, and how U.S. Government programs may be more 
efficiently designed and coordinated; (6) the development of 
complementary industry and trade association export promotion programs, 
including ways for greater and more effective coordination of U.S. 
Government efforts with private sector organizations' civil nuclear 
export promotion efforts; and (7) the development of U.S. Government 
programs to encourage producers of civil nuclear products and services 
to enter new foreign markets, in connection with which the committee 
may advise on how to gather, disseminate, and promote awareness of 
information on civil nuclear exports and related trade issues.
    Committee members represent U.S. industry and related U.S. civil 
nuclear trade organizations.
    Committee activities are conducted consistent with the provisions 
of the FACA and its implementing regulations, 41 CFR subpart 102-3. 
FACA section 10(d) provides that an advisory committee meeting, or 
portions thereof, may be closed if the head of the agency to which the 
advisory committee reports determines such meeting may be closed to the 
public in accordance with subsection (c) of the Government in the 
Sunshine Act (5 U.S.C. 552b(c)).
    The closed portions of the meetings will involve committee 
discussions of proposed U.S. Government strategies and policies 
regarding: (1) Nuclear cooperation agreements; (2) implementation of 
the Convention on Supplementary Compensation for Nuclear Damage; (3) 
proposed bilateral commercial nuclear working groups; and (4) 
identification of specific trade barriers impacting the U.S. civil 
nuclear industry.
    Subsection (c)(9)(B) of the Government in the Sunshine Act permits 
closure of a meeting or portion of a meeting if the meeting is likely 
to disclose information the premature disclosure of which would be 
likely to significantly frustrate implementation of a proposed agency 
action. 5 U.S.C. 552b(c)(9)(B). Premature disclosure of matters one 
through three listed in the preceding paragraph would be likely to 
significantly impair the implementation of proposed agency policies and 
actions.
    Subsection (c)(4) of the Government in the Sunshine Act permits 
closure of a meeting or portion of a meeting if trade secrets and 
commercial or financial information obtained from a person and 
privileged or confidential will be disclosed at the meeting. 5 U.S.C. 
552b(c)(4). As noted above in matter four, the committee will discuss 
foreign trade barriers facing the U.S. civil nuclear industry, with the 
aim of developing proposals for how the U.S. Government can develop 
strategies to strengthen the industry's competitiveness as it competes 
abroad. This portion of the meeting will include the disclosure of 
committee members' trade secrets and privileged or confidential 
commercial or financial information as the members discuss the specific 
trade barriers their companies and subsectors have encountered.
    Accordingly, the Chief Financial Officer and Assistant Secretary 
for Administration at the U.S. Department of Commerce has determined, 
pursuant to Section 10(d) of the FACA (5 U.S.C. App. 2 section 10(d)), 
that the portions of the June 9 and August 4, 2016 meetings described 
above shall be exempt from the provisions relating to public meetings 
found in 5 U.S.C. App. 2 sections 10(a)(1) and 10(a)(3). This 
determination shall be effective from the date of its signing on May 
13, 2016.

Man Cho,
Director, Acting, Office of Energy and Environmental Industries.
[FR Doc. 2016-12268 Filed 5-23-16; 8:45 am]
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