[Federal Register Volume 84, Number 228 (Tuesday, November 26, 2019)]
[Notices]
[Pages 65209-65210]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2019-25683]


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DEPARTMENT OF STATE

[Public Notice: 10956]


Cultural Property Advisory Committee; Notice of Meeting

AGENCY: Department of State.

ACTION: Notice of meeting.

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SUMMARY: The Department of State is issuing this notice to announce the 
location, date, time, and agenda for the next meeting of the Cultural 
Property Advisory Committee.

DATES: January 21-22, 2020, 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. (EST). The Cultural 
Property Advisory Committee will hold an open session on January 21, 
2020, at 1:30 p.m. (EST). It will last approximately one hour.
    Participation: You may participate electronically by Zoom. To 
participate, visit http://culturalheritage.state.gov for information on 
how to access the meeting. Please submit any request for reasonable 
accommodation not later than January 7, 2020, by contacting the Bureau 
of Educational and Cultural Affairs at [email protected]. It may not be 
possible to accommodate requests received after that date.
    Comments: The Committee will review your written comment if it is 
received by January 7, 2020, at 11:59 p.m. (EST). You are not required 
to submit a written comment in order to make an oral comment in the 
open session.

ADDRESSES: The public will participate electronically by Zoom. The 
Committee members will meet at the U.S. Department of State, Annex 5, 
2200 C St. NW, Washington, DC .
    [ssquf] Written Comments: You may submit written comments in two 
ways, depending on whether they contain privileged or confidential 
information:
    [ssquf] Electronic Comments: For ordinary comments, please use 
http://www.regulations.gov, enter the docket [DOS-2019-0043] and follow 
the prompts to submit your comments.
    [ssquf] Paper Comments: For comments that contain privileged or 
confidential information (within the meaning of 19 U.S.C. 2605(i)(1)), 
please send submissions to: U.S. Department of State, Bureau of 
Educational and Cultural Affairs--Cultural Heritage Center, SA-5 Floor 
5, 2200 C St. NW, Washington, DC 20522-0505.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For general questions concerning the 
meeting, contact Cathy Bing, Bureau of Educational and Cultural 
Affairs--Cultural Heritage Center, by phone, (202) 632-6301, or email: 
[email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In accordance with the Convention on 
Cultural Property Implementation Act (19 U.S.C. 2601 et seq.) (``the 
Act''), the Assistant Secretary of State for Educational and Cultural 
Affairs calls a meeting of the Cultural Property Advisory Committee 
(``the Committee'') (19 U.S.C. 2605(e)(2)). The Act describes the 
Committee's responsibilities. A portion of this meeting will be closed 
to the public pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 552b(c)(9)(B) and 19 U.S.C. 2605(h).
    Meeting Agenda: The Committee will review the requests by the 
Government of the Republic of Turkey and the Government of the Republic 
of Tunisia seeking import restrictions on archaeological and 
ethnological material.
    Open Session Participation: The Committee will hold an open session 
of the meeting to receive oral public comments on the requests from 
Turkey and Tunisia on Tuesday, January 21, 2020, from 1:30 p.m. to 
approximately 2:30 p.m. (EST). We have provided specific instructions 
on how to participate or observe the open session at https://eca.state.gov/cultural-heritage-center. You do not need to register to 
observe the open session. You do not have to submit written comments to 
make an oral comment in the open session. But if you do wish to speak, 
you must request to be scheduled by January 14, 2020, via email 
([email protected]) in order to be assigned a slot. Please submit your 
name and organizational affiliation in this request.

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The open session will start with a brief presentation by the Committee, 
after which you should be prepared to answer questions on any written 
statements you may have submitted. Finally, you may provide additional 
oral comments for up to five (5) minutes per participant. Due to time 
constraints, it may not be possible to accommodate all who wish to 
speak.
    Written Comments: If you do not wish to participate in the open 
session but still wish to make your views known, you may submit written 
comments for the Committee's consideration. Submit non-privileged and 
non-confidential information (within the meaning of 19 U.S.C. 
2605(i)(1)) regarding the requests from Turkey and Tunisia using the 
Regulations.gov website (listed in the ``COMMENTS'' section above) not 
later than January 7, 2020, at 11:59 p.m. (EST). Please send comments 
that contain privileged or confidential information (within the meaning 
of 19 U.S.C. 2605(i)(1)) to: U.S. Department of State, Bureau of 
Educational and Cultural Affairs--Cultural Heritage Center, SA-5 Floor 
5, 2200 C St. NW, Washington, DC, 20522-0505. In all cases, your 
written comments should relate specifically to the determinations 
specified in the Act at 19 U.S.C. 2602(a)(1). We request that any party 
soliciting or aggregating written comments received from other persons 
for submission to the Department inform those persons that the 
Department will not edit their comments to remove any identifying or 
contact information and that they therefore should not include any such 
information in their comments that they do not want publicly disclosed. 
Written comments submitted using the Regulations.gov website is not 
private because they will be posted on the Regulations.gov website. 
Because written comments cannot be edited to remove any personally 
identifying or contact information, we caution against including any 
such information in an electronic submission without appropriate 
permission to disclose that information (including trade secrets and 
commercial or financial information that are privileged or confidential 
within the meaning of 19 U.S.C. 2605(i)(1)).

Marie Therese Porter Royce,
Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, 
Department of State.
[FR Doc. 2019-25683 Filed 11-25-19; 8:45 am]
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