From: John Young <jya@pipeline.com>
Date: Mon, 2 Feb 1998 20:57:45 +0800
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Subject: BXA Meet
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Should anyone attend this a report would be welcome.

Federal Register: February 2, 1998 (Volume 63, Number 21)
Page 5353
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Bureau of Export Administration

Regulations and Procedures Technical Advisory Committee; Notice
of Partially Closed Meeting

    A meeting of the Regulations and Procedures Technical Advisory
Committee will be held February 25, 1998, 9:00 a.m., in the Herbert C.
Hoover Building, Room 3884, 14th Street between Constitution and
Pennsylvania Avenues, N.W., Washington, D.C. The Committee
advises the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Export Administration 
on implementation of the Export Administration Regulations (EAR) 
and provides for continuing review to update the EAR as needed.

Agenda

Open Session

    1. Opening remarks by the Chairperson.
    2. Presentation of papers or comments by the public.
    3. Update on implementation of the National Defense Authorization
Act computer control regulations.
    4. Update on the Wassenaar Arrangement implementation regulation.
    5. Discussion on the ``deemed export'' rule.
    6. Discussion on the encryption regulations.
    7. Update on the License Process Review initiative.
    8. Discussion on efforts to conform the Foreign Trade Statistics
Regulations and the Export Administration Regulations on export
clearance requirements.
    9. Discussion on clarification of EPCI (Enhanced Proliferation
Control Initiative).

Closed Session

    10. Discussion of matters properly classified under Executive Order
12958, dealing with the U.S. export control program and strategic
criteria related thereto.

    The General Session of the meeting will be open to the public and a
limited number of seats will be available. To the extent that time
permits, members of the public may present oral statements to the
Committee. Written statements may be submitted at any time before or
after the meeting. However, to facilitate the distribution of public
presentation materials to the Committee members, the Committee 
suggests that presenters forward the public presentation materials 
two weeks prior to the meeting date to the following address: Ms. 
Lee Ann Carpenter, OAS/EA/BXA MS:3886C, 14th & Pennsylvania 
Avenue, N.W., U.S. Department of Commerce, Washington, D.C. 
20230.

    The Assistant Secretary for Administration, with the concurrence of
the delegate of the General Counsel, formally determined on December
16, 1996, pursuant to Section 10(d) of the Federal Advisory Committee
Act, as amended, that the series of meetings or portions of meetings of
the Committee and of any Subcommittees thereof, dealing with the
classified materials listed in 5 U.S.C. 552b(c)(1) shall be exempt from
the provisions relating to public meetings found in section 10(a) (1)
and (a) (3), of the Federal Advisory Committee Act. The remaining
series of meetings or portions thereof will be open to the public. A
copy of the Notice of Determination to close meetings or portions of
meetings of the Committee is available for public inspection and
copying in the Central Reference and Records Inspection Facility, Room
6020, U.S. Department of Commerce, Washington, D.C. For further
information, call Lee Ann Carpenter at (202) 482-2583.

    Dated: January 27, 1998.
Lee Ann Carpenter,
Director, Technical Advisory Committee Unit.
[FR Doc. 98-2393 Filed 1-30-98; 8:45 am]