[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 37 (Friday, February 23, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Pages 11252-11253]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-4500]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Bureau of Export Administration


Materials Technical Advisory Committee; Notice of Partially 
Closed Meeting

    The Materials Technical Advisory Committee will meet on March 15, 
2001, 10:30 a.m., Herbert C. Hoover Building, Room 3884, 14th Street 
between Constitution & Pennsylvania Avenues, NW., Washington, DC. The 
Committee advises the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Export 
Administration with respect to technical questions that affect the 
level of export controls applicable to materials and related 
technology.

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Agenda

Public Session

    1. Opening remarks and introductions.
    2. Presentation of papers and comments by the public.
    3. Update on status of Biological Weapons Convention protocol 
negotiations.

Closed Session

    4. Discussion of matters properly classified under Executive Order 
12958, dealing with U.S. export control programs and strategic criteria 
related thereto.
    A limited number of seats will be available during the public 
session of the meeting. Reservations are not accepted. To the extent 
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 distribution of public 
presentation materials to Committee members, the materials should be 
forwarded prior to the meeting to the address below: Ms. Lee Ann 
Carpenter, OSIES/EA/BXA MS: 3876, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14 St. & 
Constitution Ave., NW., Washington, DC, 20230.
    The Assistant Secretary for Administration, with the concurrence of 
the delegate of the General Counsel, formally determined on March 7, 
2000, 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 Subcommittee thereof dealing with the classified 
materials listed in 5 U.S.C. 552(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, DC. For more information 
or copies of the minutes call Ms. Lee Ann Carpenter at (202) 482-2583.

    Dated: February 20, 2001.
Lee Ann Carpenter,
Committee Liaison Officer.
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