[Federal Register Volume 78, Number 186 (Wednesday, September 25, 2013)]
[Notices]
[Pages 59081-59082]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2013-23373]
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DEPARTMENT OF STATE
[Public Notice 8480; Docket No. DOS-2013-0020]
Notice of Meeting of the Cultural Property Advisory Committee
There will be a meeting of the Cultural Property Advisory Committee
October 30 to November 1, 2013 at the U.S. Department of State, Annex
5, 2200 C Street NW., Washington, DC Portions of this meeting will be
closed to the public, as discussed below.
During the closed portion of the meeting, the Committee will review
the proposal to extend the Memorandum of Understanding Between the
Government of the United States of America and the Government of the
Republic of Honduras Concerning the Imposition of Import Restrictions
on Archaeological Material from the Pre-Columbian Cultures of Honduras
(``MOU'') [Docket No. DOS-2013-0020]. Additionally, the Government of
Honduras has asked that the MOU be amended to include material
representing the Colonial and Republican periods of its cultural
heritage. An open session to receive oral public comment on the
proposal to extend and amend the MOU with Honduras will be held on
Wednesday, October 30, 2013, beginning at 10:00 a.m. EDT.
Also, during the closed portion of the meeting, the Committee will
conduct an interim review of the Memorandum of Understanding Between
the Government of the United States of America and the Government of
the Republic of El Salvador Concerning the Imposition of Import
Restrictions on Certain Categories of Archaeological Material from the
Pre-Hispanic Cultures of the Republic of El Salvador. Public comment,
oral and written, will be invited at a time in the future should this
Memorandum of Understanding be proposed for extension.
The Committee's responsibilities are carried out in accordance with
provisions of the Convention on Cultural Property Implementation Act
(19 U.S.C. 2601 et seq.; ``Act''). The text of the Act and MOUs, as
well as related information, may be found at http://eca.state.gov/cultural-heritage-center. If you wish to attend the open session on
October 30, 2013, you should notify the Cultural Heritage Center of the
Department of State at (202) 632-6301 no later than 5:00 p.m. (EDT)
October 17, 2013, to arrange for admission. Seating is limited. When
calling, please specify if you need reasonable accommodation. The open
session will be held at 2200 C St. NW., Washington, DC 20037. Please
plan to arrive 15 minutes before the beginning of the open session.
If you wish to make an oral presentation at the open session you
must request to be scheduled by the above-mentioned date and time, and
you must submit written comments, ensuring that they are received no
later than October 17, 2013, at11:59 p.m. (EDT), via the eRulemaking
Portal (see below), to allow time for distribution to Committee members
prior to the meeting. Oral comments will be limited to five (5) minutes
to allow time for questions from members of the Committee. All oral and
written comments must relate specifically to the determinations under
19 U.S.C. 2602 of the Act, pursuant to which the Committee must make
findings. This statute can be found at the Web site noted above.
If you do not wish to make oral comment but still wish to make your
views known, you may send written comments for the Committee to
consider. Again, your comments must relate specifically to the
determinations under 19 U.S.C. 2602 of the Act. Submit all written
materials electronically through the eRulemaking Portal (see below),
ensuring that they are received no later than October 17, 2013 at 11:59
p.m. (EDT). Our adoption of this procedure facilitates public
participation, implements Sec. 206 of the E-Government Act of 2002,
Pub. L. 107-347, 116 Stat. 2915, and supports the Department of State's
``Greening Diplomacy'' initiative which aims to reduce the State
Department's environmental footprint and reduce costs.
Please submit comments only once using one of these methods:
Electronic Delivery. To submit comments electronically, go
to the Federal eRulemaking Portal (http://www.regulations.gov), enter
the Docket No. DOS-2013-0020, and follow the prompts to submit a
comment. Comments submitted in electronic form are not private. They
will be posted on the site http://www.regulations.gov. Because the
comments cannot be edited to remove any identifying or contact
information, the Department of State cautions against including any
information in an electronic submission that one does not want publicly
disclosed (including trade secrets and commercial or financial
information that is privileged or confidential pursuant to 19 U.S.C.
2605(i)(1)).
Regular Mail or Delivery. If you wish to submit
information that you believe to be privileged or confidential, and
submitted in confidence pursuant to 19 U.S.C. 2605(i)(1), you may do so
via regular mail, commercial delivery, or personal hand delivery to the
following address: Cultural Heritage Center (ECA/P/C), SA-5, Fifth
Floor, U.S. Department of State, Washington, DC 20522-0505. Only
comments that you believe to be privileged or confidential will be
accepted via those methods. Comments must be postmarked by October 17,
2013.
As a general reminder, comments submitted by fax or email are not
accepted. In the past, twenty copies of texts over five pages in length
were requested. Please note that this is no longer necessary; all
comments, other than comments that you consider privileged or
confidential, should now be submitted via the eRulemaking Portal only.
The Department of State requests that any party soliciting or
aggregating comments received from other persons for submission to the
Department of State inform those persons that the Department of State
will not edit their comments to remove any identifying or contact
information, and that they therefore should not include any information
in their comments that they do not want publicly disclosed.
As noted above, portions of the meeting will be closed pursuant to
5 U.S.C. 552b(c)(9)(B) and 19 U.S.C. 2605(h), the latter of which
stipulates that ``The provisions of the Federal Advisory Committee Act
shall apply to the Cultural Property Advisory Committee except that the
requirements
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of subsections (a) and (b) of sections 10 and 11 of such Act (relating
to open meetings, public notice, public participation, and public
availability of documents) shall not apply to the Committee, whenever
and to the extent it is determined by the President or his designee
that the disclosure of matters involved in the Committee's proceedings
would compromise the government's negotiation objectives or bargaining
positions on the negotiations of any agreement authorized by this
title.'' Pursuant to law, executive order, and delegation of authority,
I have made such a determination.
Personal information regarding attendees is requested pursuant to
Public Law99-399 (Omnibus Diplomatic Security and Antiterrorism Act of
1986), as amended; Public Law107-56 (USA PATRIOT Act); and Executive
Order 13356. The purpose of the collection is to validate the identity
of individuals who enter Department facilities. The data will be
entered into the Visitor Access Control System (VACS-D) database.
Please see the Security Records System of Records Notice (State-36) at
http://www.state.gov/documents/organization/103419.pdf for additional
information.
Dated: September 16, 2013.
William J. Burns,
Deputy Secretary of State, Department of State.
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